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Creating Custom Context Menus in Flash

July 12, 2011

The assets for my 5 minute quick tip talk for the 2011 Adobe Education Leader Institute are located here. This is the completed example (Flash Professional CS5.5): [download AEL2011_FlashContextMenu] Here is an image preview: Here is the SWF: [SWF]https://inflagrantedelicto.memoryspiral.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/contextmenu.swf, 350, 300[/SWF] And here be the code bits! package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.ui.ContextMenu; import flash.ui.ContextMenuItem; […]

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CodeBass Article: AS3 Audio Libraries

November 17, 2010

An article I had written on using a variety of ActionScript and Alchemy-based audio encoding libraries in Flash Player has been published over at CodeBass. Check it out and even play with the demo set from within your web browser. Full source code and links to referenced AS3 libraries is also available. Nice to finally

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InsideRIA: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess API – What’s It Good For?

June 15, 2010

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 today, most of them are basic “Hello World” examples, or happen to be purely theoretical.

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Strange ActionScript dispatchEvent / addEventListener Gotcha

March 27, 2010

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 I could even trace the type out through willTrigger(). Relevant example code is below: private

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Adobe AIR: Preventing Users from Closing the App

December 17, 2009

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 a Mac. The ability to go full screen and lock that down is essential to

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YouTube AS3 Example Using Flash Professional

October 20, 2009

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: [SWF]https://inflagrantedelicto.memoryspiral.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/YouTubeAS3_CS4.swf, 480, 500[/SWF] References: The ActionScript 3 YouTube Chromeless Player is Now Live YouTube ActionScript 3.0 Player API Reference Download the

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Google FINALLY Releases AS3 Player for YouTube

October 14, 2009

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 set up and use. Google seems to be more and more friendly to the Flash

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Scaling Your Images in Flash Player? Smooth Those Things!!!

September 18, 2009

I actually forgot to apply the “smoothing” property to a flash.display.Bitmap display object being scaled inside Flash Player. Just look at the difference such an oversight made! Since I was using a flash.display.Loader display object to load the image up, and Loader has no smoothing property, I totally spaced on this and it’s been out

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Runtime Armatures in Flash CS4

August 20, 2009

I have such terrible luck with Runtime Armatures in Flash CS4. It’s really not funny anymore. Most recently stumbled across the following compilation error (fatal warning?) when working with the “New Flash Component” feature of Flash Builder 4: Warning: 5002: The main timeline’s frame scripts have been ignored because a compiled clip contains a definition

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ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API

March 31, 2009

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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Quick Tip: Display Application Version in your AIR App.

February 3, 2009

Just a quick tip for those looking to somehow display the AIR application version from the descriptor file. I’ve found it very helpful in troubleshooting is users can say EXACTLY what version of the app they are running. AIR 2.5 and later: private function getAppVersion():String { var appXml:XML = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor; var ns:Namespace = appXml.namespace(); var

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Using FlexEvent.IDLE to Determine Inactivity

December 23, 2008

A FlexEvent.IDLE event will dispatch every 100 milliseconds when there has been no keyboard or mouse activity for 1 second. So, if you want to have some other method fire off after the user is inactive for 5 minutes (for example), you would set it up as detailed below. Be sure to import the following

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