Here’s some personal history- this probably colors my opinion a great deal. I first started messing around with “Flash” using Macromedia Flash 4 producing really awful animations and got into it full swing with version 5. With the advent of ActionScript as a language, I began working on lots of interactive materials and a bunch …
The obvious reason being that Flash is the overarching platform with many tools, IDEs, runtimes, et cetera and Flex is a framework used to produce Flash content. Flex Builder has always produced Flash (NOT FLEX) and I’ve encountered many people who just never could grasp this fact. This will help clarify things for so many …
For some time now, I’ve been using Google Analytics for various personal websites including this weblog. Recently though, we’ve begun using it at my place of employment and have received a request to track user generated events from a live Flash Media Server stream. After poking around a bit and coming upon numerous dead ends, …
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 but good news. Very timely, too – as my department is looking to expand into …
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This is the final post in a three part tutorial detailing the creation of a Flash slideshow widget using ActionScript 3.0. Have a look over Part 1 and Part 2 before moving ahead. In this post, we are examining the two methods which actually handle image loading and display within our module. private function switchImage(e:TimerEvent):void …
In Part 1, we had a look at the basic structure of what we are working toward, including a PHP file to read images from a directory and return a list of images to Flash, the setup of our FLA, and the basic construction of our document class. This widget, being so simple, will only …
This is a simple example of how to build a dynamic slideshow widget in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 such as the one seen here. The first thing you’ll need to do is set up an FLA with the properties you’d like to exhibit. Stage resolution is set to 500×300 with a black background. This will …
Many of the Flash modules and widgets I write are part of a larger system. Normally, some sort of ID or other variable piece of data will need to be passed in as flashvars upon initialization to allow the SWF to function correctly, making the appropriate data calls and so forth. When testing in the …
There is really no denying it at this point for anyone who was seriously contending. Flash has the crown and is in no way giving it up. After seeing what Alchemy can do at the keynote today, P2P multicast video, Durango, and Server-Side ActionScript (!) during Sneaks this evening… Good God… what an awesome time …
WTF? Wasn’t the “Flash Platform” christened back in the Macromedia days? I’ve been calling it that ever since Macromedia released their original declarative whitepaper in October 2005… Realizing that Flash is a better name than Flex for a platform, Adobe is now referring to everything it does related to Flash (including the Flash Player, Adobe …
I had posted earlier concerning a strange issue with Flash Player 10 where the SWF would refuse to load if being served over a Java servlet. We’ve been able to resolve the issue by explicitly transferring any SWF content with a “Content-Disposition” header of “inline” as suggested by Adobe. The relevant portion of this document …
It seems a lot has changed from the release candidates to the final version- a lot of things people did not expect. For instance, last minute surprise changes to the Sound API… and then the previously announced security changes that Adobe has, in fairness, warned us about since Flash Player 9. I’ve stumbled across something …