Category Archives: Flash

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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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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Rails and Flex

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Bela Korcsog

Just finished a month long conversion of a Flex project from consuming a PHP backend to RESTified Rails backend, and it was a new experience for me. Needless to say, some of the things in Rails are really great, but … Continue reading →

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Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Bela Korcsog

Just got back from Adobe MAX and am ready to see my family again. After three hardcore days of reviewing all the latest in Adobe’s realm, I’m very happy to report that Flash has a very exciting future. Flash 10 … Continue reading →

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XMLSocket AS3 Game Development

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Bela Korcsog

I’ve been working with my son on a game using XMLSockets — it’s getting there and I’m looking forward in the next month posting a copy for folks to check out. It’s been 5 years since I had an interest … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails with RailsAMF

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Bela Korcsog

Recently looking into Ruby on Rails and going through the steps of installing this onto my localhost to test.  There’s lots of intersting things going on with regards to RonR, but most interesting to me are the RubyAMF project and … Continue reading →

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Flash is Everywhere

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Bela Korcsog

I’ve been noticing that Flash is being integrated in many ways that surprise me every day. Take for example a project I just completed for Yahoo IMV and Ford (Ford Escape CowTipping).  

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Set Bitmap Properties MXP

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Bela Korcsog

I’ve put together a smaller command set that designers will find useful. This command allows you to change the bitmap properties of all the currently selected library symbols. I’ve posted this to Adobe Exchange and will update with the newest … Continue reading →

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