Author Archives: Bela Korcsog

About Bela Korcsog

Proud father of two children, happy husband to one wife. I've been programming various technologies and leading the development of huge projects for most of the last ten years. I've got some specific likes and dislikes through my experiences in the web site business but generally I'm pretty straightforward about it. Not a huge fan of the latest and greatest shiny toy (it took me four years to show an interest in Flash) I'm more than happy to code in any language that comes along (Actionscript is just so darn fun).

Dataservices — What to chose when running a client/server application and flash?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

I was looking for data on which backend implementation of data services was the best to use in flash, and everyone is talking REST these days and just straight xml data. But there’s still much to be desired in using … Continue reading →

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Daelgren presentation engine

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

As i’ve been hinting at for months i’ve been working on a presentation system for flash. I’m very close to rolling my first project using the system and having extrapolated what is part of the framework from what is custom … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Masks and Flash player 9 / 10

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

I came across a very interesting bug that i’m in the process of working around. Basically, i’ve created an image gallery with dynamic masks that contain wipes that are transitioned over the individual movieclips. The stack is composed this way: … Continue reading →

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Crossdomain changes in Flash 10 affect S3 users

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

There’s been a few posts recently regarding crossdomain policy changes in Flash 10 affecting S3 users: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=675&threadid=1367135&enterthread=y A little more detail regarding the changes to the top level crossdomain allowing site administrators to control sub directory located crossdomains. http://neurofuzzy.net/2008/08/27/flash-player-10-will-not-work-with-amazon-s3/ Essentially, … Continue reading →

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Why is windowless mode (wmode) so bad?

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

I wrote up an explaination of wmode in April on why you should never enable it when building Flash or Flex sites — if you need to overlay DHTML type menus or controls over top of a flash control, you’re probably a great … Continue reading →

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Javascript, External Interface Flex and Flash

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

I was asked to define what was possible in using ExternalInterface when developing for our sites. This is good general information and it’s probably a good idea to keep it together in one place. Essentially, i was asked how we … Continue reading →

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Embedding fonts on the fly in AS3

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

Lots of posts out there talking about runtime font embedding (first one i saw and thought was intelligent was Scott G Morgan’s breakdown and explaination: http://www.scottgmorgan.com/blog/index.php/tag/fonts/). My issues came up when using Flash instead of Flex to embed fonts at … Continue reading →

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Recent Projects

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

Been busy the last few months, and haven’t really posted too mucho about what is new and exciting. Here’s a few links to enjoy: http://www.fordvehicles.com/transitconnect/  (Bill Shippy helped me when the going got tough. Creatively not inspirational but the architecture … Continue reading →

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Dell XPS m1530

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

I’ve got to write about my new laptop! It’s a Dell XPS m1530 and I’m pretty impressed with how it performs. I got a system outfitted with most of what I thought is cool for Vista based laptops these days … Continue reading →

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Five3d to AS3

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

Just finished a port of Five3D to AS3.click here to see the AS3 version of the caurina sample from Mathieu Badimon’s originalFor the most part the biggest hurdles were the conversion of the code from a ‘dynamic’ structure to a … Continue reading →

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