ActionScript

Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC

Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC! Create a shared pool of content for a set of related projects—HTML5 video, a WebGL-rendered interactive ad, and an HTML5 Canvas game—using Flash Professional CC. No longer restricted to only ActionScript and Flash Player, Flash Professional CC offers more …

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Train Simple: Flash Professional CC Mobile App Development

Pleased to present a new course for Train Simple: Flash Professional CC Mobile App Development! This course is designed for experienced Flash and ActionScript designers and developers. Joseph Labrecque will show you how to take advantage of mobile device hardware using new API’s in ActionScript 3.0. You’ll see how you can produce apps and publish …

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Announcing AS3-WebVTT

AS3-WebVTT is a set of ActionScript 3.0 utility classes which enable the parsing and sorting of standard WebVTT (.vtt) files for video captioning. Why write a WebVTT parser in AS3? Simple. A lot of video is still served with Flash Player or AIR – we certainly still use it extensively at the University of Denver. Recently, we’ve found the …

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Packt Celebrates 10 Years

With Packt Publishing celebrating 10 years of delivering effective learning and information services to IT professionals… they are offering most digital copies of the books they publish for only $10 USD! This offer is valid until July 5th if anyone wants to take advantage. They have a pretty huge library of titles to choose from… …

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360|Stack 2013 : Slides

Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New versions of Adobe AIR perform quite spectacularly on mobile and really blaze when tapping into the device GPU. If your mobile application requires this sort of performance – there is a solution to be found in the Starling framework along with Feathers …

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AS3 Quickie – drawWithQuality()

Since Flash Player 9, we’ve been able to use the BitmapData.draw() method in order to capture visual data from a display object. The major limitation of using this method, is that it will render the visual at the stage quality with which the swf has been embedded/compiled. One trick to get around this is to …

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