Oct
17
Big thanks to John Bailey who has a fantastic post about using the Strategy Pattern to decouple the Tween library from the ToolTip class. He offers a very thorough explanation of what he did and source files to boot. I’m sure this will be a welcome addition for anyone not using the Flash IDE. Tween Library Preferences and Strategy ...
Aug
17
I realize my post titles may seem strange but I'm trying to make them as search engine friendly as possible. With the advent of Flash 8 came file uploading capabilities. At the time we really weren't doing anything that had a calling for this lovely new capability. There were instances in the past where it would have been great, we ...
Aug
04
Title Edit: 08.22.07. I don't know what I was thinking, initially titled "...HTML Scrollbars", that doesn't make sense. Update: 04.23.08. Working with Matthew Ellis , who commented below, I think we resolved the crashing issue with Firefox / Mac by removing ( commenting the code ) the constant updates sent from JavaScript to the SWF, these ...
Jul
26
A few recent AS 2.0 projects have drawn the need for a sort of global event messaging system for Flash. Purists may say that's lazy or confusing, 'what if someone else needs to edit your code?' I don't care I tell them! I kid, I kid... I do care, but it is a rare occurrence when someone ...
Jul
11
It seems pretty apparent to me. What would make me think this dirty thought? Flex, since v2.0 there has been a dot release and 2 hot fixes ( one & two ). The last time there was a dot release or hot fix ...
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