As expected, I had a great time at my fourth Adobe Education Leader Institute this year. Presenting, discussing, networking, sharing, and learning – there is truly no other gathering like it. I was able to present a talk on the persistent value of the Flash Platform in education, provide a workshop in Flash game design, …
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Adobe today has announced that they will play a strategic role in the formation of a new non-profit open source organization, The Away Foundation, through funding and endorsement of the popular Away3D framework as the recommended open source 3D framework for mobile, desktop and television games powered by Flash technology (Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash …
Over the weekend, my newest video course with video2brain was published. Getting Started with Flash Professional CS6 Step-by-Step Basics to Get You on Your Way In this course, Flash authority Joseph Labrecque takes you on the straightest path to proficiency with Flash Professional CS6. You’ll learn your way around the interface and get comfortable working …
Certain factions within Adobe seem to think that HTML & Friends can do 80% of what Flash Player can do on the web today 1. That’s fine. It may be true- things have certainly progressed in a very positive way with web standards over the past few years, thank goodness! But what of that other …
We’re looking all the way back to Flash Player 10.2 for a peek at native mouse cursor support! This feature allows us to use bitmap based mouse cursors that run at the OS level rather than inside the display list in Flash Player. Huge performance gains! [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.2.0″ movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NativeCursor.swf” width=”550″ height=”400″ targetclass=”flashmovie” play=”true” loop=”true” …
For most of my “AS3 Quickie” series, I’ve focused on Flash Player 11.2-11.4, but really have plans to cover all sorts of interesting bits in the recent runtimes – even some additions with Flash Player 10. For those who would like a comprehensive guide to everything new in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, O’Reilly …
Another great feature in Flash Player 11.2 is the combination of the mouseLock boolean in flash.display.Stage along with the ability to read movementX and movementY from MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE. When used within Flash Player, we must be in fullscreen for mouse lock to be enabled and the relative mouse coordinates made available. The primary focus of this …
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One of the great new features introduced with Flash Player 11.2 is the ability to detect when the runtime throttles, pauses, or resumes normal activity through the flash.events.ThrottleEvent class. This is useful for saving state, or pulling back our activity when a throttle is detected. What does the throttle actually do? Well, if you have …
Did you think that Brackets was the only open-source-star Adobe has been working on? What many people fail to realize is that the Flash technology side of things is under heavy, HEAVY development; new versions of the runtimes, expanded operating system support, incredible ActionScript improvements, major tooling updates, and projects like Monocle, SWF Investigator, Starling, …
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One of the great new features introduced with Flash Player 11.2 is the ability to intercept the right-click from a user’s mouse. A simple MouseEvent listener can be added to the Stage or any object which extends flash.display.InteractiveObject. Not only does this have the effect of completely removing the right-click menu from Flash content, but …
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These are my slides from the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group Adobe CS6 release party in Denver! With Adobe CS6 and the Creative Cloud, there are many new possibilities to consider when it comes to motion and interactive tools! Flash Professional CS6 allows a number of new publish targets; including sprite sheets, the updated Flash …
Adobe has scheduled a full series of six webinars focused on building games for iOS using Flash and AIR! If you’ve ever wanted to get into this growing area – this should be a really nice opportunity to do so. The series will cover Adobe Flash technologies for development of games and apps for iOS, …