Archive for 'Adobe'

Microsoft Prefers Flash to Silverlight

May 10th, 2008 – 12:43 pm
Tagged as: Flash, Adobe, Silverlight

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Reducing Filesizes Using Abstraction

April 23rd, 2008 – 6:27 pm

I had recently came across a situation with a project of mine where concrete referencing resulted in a SWF file that was far more bloated than it clearly should have been. Yet another reason why abstraction is so great — although perhaps it should have been obvious in the first place.
The project in question revolves […]

Flash vCam AS3

March 31st, 2008 – 2:17 pm

While motion tweens really aren’t my thing, let alone Flash design in general, I was quite intrigued by the vCam AS3 tool by Brian Heisey. The tool was originally released in 2005 by Sham Bhangal and Dave Dixon, and Brian updated it to function in AS3 with a few additional effects as well. Best of […]

Advanced String Splitting

March 4th, 2008 – 1:08 pm

I recently had a project where I had to run some fancy regex and recursion on strings written as excel-style formulas. It was an enjoyable project, as I don't often have the opportunity to use regex or recursion in Flex. However, one of the steps in the process required me to perform what, I thought, [...]

Hot Key System for Flex (pre-release)

February 16th, 2008 – 8:37 pm

After having a need for creating hot key shortcuts on multiple different occasions, I decided to break down and create a highly-reusable system that integrates seamlessly into any Flex app. I spent some time and planned out several different use-cases that the system will need to account for. A few considerations were as follows:

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The “NEW” way to resize images

February 4th, 2008 – 2:04 am
Tagged as: Flash, Flex 2, Media

A friend of mine just introduced me to an interesting approach to image resizing called seam carving. It's a solution to the challenge of preserving both the size and composition of an image, and well....perhaps this video will explain it better than I could.
[flash http://www.youtube.com/v/6NcIJXTlugc&rel=1 w=425 h=355]
It also turns out that someone built an RIA [...]

FileReference doesn’t work in Leopard

November 17th, 2007 – 9:16 pm
Tagged as: General, Flash

This one set me back a little while. I was trying to set up fileReference for uploading images, but the Event.SELECT handler just wouldn't catch anything. As it turned out, both select and cancel buttons in the browser dialog were dispatching Event.CANCEL events. A little research revealed to me that this was actually a [...]

Code-Behind: Flex

August 15th, 2007 – 8:56 pm
Tagged as: Flex 2

In this article, I'll be going in-depth on the practice known as code-behind for the Flex environment. This is a very powerful technique that all software architects should be familiar with, as it promotes sophisticated encapsulation techniques to separate the form and function from within a UI element.
What Code-Behind Is

Code-behind is a practice whose origins [...]

Timer and enterFrame Persistence

June 11th, 2007 – 2:22 pm
Tagged as: Flash, Actionscript 3

Someone over at the actionscript.org forums brought up an interesting scenario. When you add a listener to the enterFrame event of a display object, and then attempt to remove the display object, the listener's handler still continues to get triggered at every enterFrame event. I explored this further to find the same issue applies to [...]

Decorators Explained

April 13th, 2007 – 2:51 pm

So far things are working pretty well for the Decorator Demo I've posted a few days back. I have been adding bits and pieces to it, all the while gaining a better understanding of the power (and limitations) they possess. For those of you who don't know, the Decorator Pattern is a famous [...]