About this Website
This is the weblog of Joseph Labrecque: Senior Multimedia Application Developer for the University of Denver and Owner of Fractured Vision Media, LLC. Joseph is an Adobe Higher Education Leader.
Category Archives: ActionScript
Strange ActionScript dispatchEvent / addEventListener Gotcha
I came across a strange situation over the weekend where a custom event being broadcast through dispatchEvent() was not being caught by the registered listener object. To make things even more bizarre, hasEventListener() definitely showed the event as registered, and … Continue reading
Parsing Tweets with the TwitterString Class
While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements that can be included within a tweet; links, usernames, and hashtags. I was … Continue reading
YouTube AS3 Example Using Flash Professional
Based on comments received in my previous article I’ve decided to also produce an example using Flash Professional CS4. The approach is different in some ways, but very similar in others. View the Example: This movie requires Flash Player 9 … Continue reading
Google FINALLY Releases AS3 Player for YouTube
Absolutely wonderful that Google has finally released an AS3 version of their chromeless player for use in Flex/AS3 projects. No more weird proxy hacks!!! I’ve thrown together a quick example and have posted the code below. Really simple stuff to … Continue reading
ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API
Nice. Adobe has apparently been working closely with Facebook and Jason Crist (original API dev.) to get a nice, solid API for Facebook apps ready for the Flash Platform. As a Flash Platform developer and Facebook user, this is nothing … Continue reading
