Category Archives: Flex

Super easy external font loading in AS3 Flash

Posted on April 22, 2010 by admin

Here’s a super easy way to build out a project with external fonts in separate swfs for flash. I use FlashDevelop and the FlexSDK so most of this is related to that usage, but you can just as easily do … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Masks and Flash player 9 / 10

Posted on September 23, 2008 by admin

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 admin

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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Five3d to AS3

Posted on February 3, 2008 by admin

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 admin

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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Clickbooq wins Site of the Day at Adobe

Posted on October 11, 2007 by admin

Clickbooq, a project I contributed to, has won Adobe’s Site of the Day. My contribution was mostly to complete areas of the site which were incomplete such as the client/server interactions in the Flex CMS application.

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Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago

Posted on October 4, 2007 by admin

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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Cinema4D > Blender > Collada > PaperVision

Posted on July 31, 2007 by admin

I’ve been working on a workflow to get models from production quality and resolution down to something that will run in Papervision. It’s been a tough process — Papervision can’t really handle more than 10K polys, and probably 3K is … Continue reading →

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Using mm.cfg to trace flash output to a file

Posted on April 20, 2007 by admin

It seems complicated but certainly it isn’t. The hardest part is to ensure you have the right player installed in all your browsers to make the log available. http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

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Flash Framework List

Posted on March 29, 2007 by admin

Nothing gets my ire up like people throwing around the terms ‘Design Patterns’ and ‘Frameworks’ in some way believing that these improve day to day activities of a great majority of Flash projects. In some larger projects with an extremely … Continue reading →

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