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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.
Tag Archives: ActionScript
InsideRIA: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess API – What’s It Good For?
Just a quick post to encourage everyone to check out my article over at InsideRIA: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess API – What’s It Good For? While there are a few examples available for connecting AIR applications to native operating system processes … Continue reading
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
Adobe AIR: Preventing Users from Closing the App
One of the really cool additions to Adobe AIR 1.5.2 was the ability to invoke preventDefault() upon a FullScreenEvent when using StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE. I always had a workaround for Windows but my method would always crash the app when run on … 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
