I’m still doing loads of ActionScript work in both my regular job and in side projects – so thought I might start posting some tiny, useful snippets of AS3 here as I encounter them. This is, I suppose, both for my own archive and for anyone out in the community that cares to pick up …
Here you can find the slides and recording for my talk “What’s New in Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2” – given on May 10th 2012 for the Hawaii Flash User Group. FLASH LIVES! What’s New in Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2 View more presentations from Joseph Labrecque The release of Flash …
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I am quite fortunate to live in Denver, Colorado. Why? Because my city was on the list of stops for the North American Flash Community Tour which is presently ongoing. For the Denver stop; both Mike Chambers and Lee Brimelow provided us with a good, honest, down-to-earth discussion of recent changed in the Flash platform, the …
Adobe has released both Flash Player 11.2 + AIR 3.2 this evening and have made a number of major announcements around the platform which you may read below: Game on: The new Adobe AIR 3.2 + Flash Player 11.2 http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/03/gameon.html Adobe Introduces Premium Features for Gaming with Flash Player 11.2; Announces Collaboration with Unity Technologies …
In mid-2010, I released a small project of mine called DropFolders to the general public. The application is built upon Adobe AIR and makes extensive use of the Native Process API to coordinate video transcode jobs through an embedded instance of the HandBrake CLI. It also adds a simple mechanism to employ a set of …
I recently acquired and was able to read over the Flash iOS Apps Cookbook by Christopher Caleb. The book is available from Packt in both print and digital formats. I was interested in reading this particular book since I authored the comparable Android-focused volume; Flash Development for Android Cookbook. As someone who has never developed …
I wasn’t actually going to write anything about the recently published Flash runtimes (Flash Player, AIR) whitepaper simply because it’s big enough news… and I really didn’t have anything to contribute. The whitepaper itself is a detailed look into the next 2 years of the evolution of the runtimes layed out for everyone to see. …
I recently found the need for permanently mounted network shares on a Windows server. Not an obvious thing to do, unfortunately… What do I mean by permanent? When mapping a share on Windows as a user, when that user logs off… the share will disconnect. For an installed Windows Service that requires access to defined …
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I often get private messages through the contact form on this blog. These are normally requests for advice, resources, or project inquiries. From time to time, a question comes in that I see as useful to a wider audience. Such is the case with the email reproduced below regarding Flex. I’ve asked permission from the …
This is the first post of 2012 and an attempt to get the year started off well! I wasn’t able to post nearly as much “useful” information in 2011 since I was tied up with so much other stuff… but am definitely working toward changing that by producing more content like this. Happy New Year, …
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O’Reilly has published a set of books that I was able to get together over the past few months, leading up to the new Flash Platform runtime releases in October: “What’s New in Flash Player 11” and “What’s New in Adobe AIR 3“. These books are companion pieces as there is obvious overlap between what …
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This is another new features demonstration which I originally wrote for my upcoming AIR 3 book showing the StageText class in action on a device! Native Text Input UI (mobile) — Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on mobile platforms, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and …