Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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Warning: All instances will be automatically declared as…
Sometimes it’s useful to have two Flash symbols which use the same Base Class which references symbols within the clip, that could be differently symbols. For example, a symbol of base class…
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Facebook Flash app lessons…
Been building a few Facebook Flash apps lately, and learnt some lessons on the way, some that didn’t appear to be in manuals, or are easy to skip over and then find…
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SCORM with custom menu built in Flash
I’ve been researching into making a training course SCORM compliant. Been quite a learning curve, and to be honest the whole system seems quite outdated and excessively jargon rich. Reading the documentation…
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Video white
A recent task I had to achieve was to play a video for several seconds and extract a frame as a JPG several seconds in. I did not know the dimensions of…
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SharedObject not updating between tabs
Just created an app which required persistent data, so used a local SharedObject. However discovered that if one person had the app open in two different places(eg. 2 tabs) the persistent data…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #7 – Removing DragDrop animation
In Flex was building a simple drag and drop from a library list to another simple list. I also wanted to build the functionality of dragging the item out of the simple…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #6 – Keydown
Spent some time screaming “Why can’t my component receive keyboard events? “ Crazy, I’m not sure why i never knew this, but for a component to receive keyboard events, it needs to…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #5 – ButtonBarButton bugs
So i had a series of custom Buttons all set up perfectly in a ButtonBar, when I realised that the design dictated that one of the buttons was a different size than…
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XML read error in AIR
Back to blogging, working on a couple of projects: I was importing an XML file using the standard technique of using a URLLoader, and in the result handler, setting the XML file…
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latin flash tour
Went to the Latin Flash tour last week in Bogotá, and met Lee Brimelow. He went over and demonstrated some of the latest updates to Flash CS5 and the FlashPlayer 10.2. Features…