Post by Phil / April 8th, 2008
Hi there... we've been busy these past couple of days so there wasn't much time for new posts - sorry. But here is a little update.
While developing a flash website (AS3 & SWFObject2.0) that heavily depended on opening URLs in a new browser window we came across the popup blocker problem that the use of navigateToURL causes. When trying to open a new window firefox'/IE's popup blocker will block the window and display its warning. After googling for some time we came across some neat workarounds:
Post by Phil / February 21st, 2008
We were at the "AS3 - From the ground up tour" in Munich yesterday and it was really fun. Although most of the topics were for beginners it was amazing just listening to him talking about these things. And Colin Moock can definitely talk ... and so he did ... for about 9 hours. Everything you need to know about OOP.
Post by Phil / February 12th, 2008
After struggling for some weeks now, I finally found a good implementation of the MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL event for my Mac. Pixelbreaker - who already had a great AS2 MouseWheel script - just posted the new AS3 version. Read more about it on the pixelbreaker-blog.
Have fun ...
Post by Phil / February 12th, 2008
I just read an article about the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone SDK - it said that the SDK is also including Flash support ... fingers crossed.
That's what we were all waiting for ... there are going to be some amazing new Flash applications on the iPhone.
Cheers
Post by Phil / February 6th, 2008
Hi ... while building the fullscreen-videoplayer I came across the problem, that I was using an old SWC for the fl-package within Eclipse. With the recent Flash Player 9 Update 3 release, Adobe added some real nice features to the FLVPlayback component (e.g. the enterFullScreenDisplayState() method).
Post by Phil / February 4th, 2008
Today I tried to create a fullscreen-videoplayer using Flash CS3's own FLVPlayback class. Everything worked fine ... untill I tried to remove the videoplayer from stage while it was still loading the flv-videofile. The player wouldn't stop streaming the file, it just kept on playing the video - even after i had removed it. I googled in hope to find an easy solution to this problem and found this post by Bluekylin.
So I tried this line:
Post by Phil / February 1st, 2008
We just booked our tickets for the AS3 event of the month: Adobe's AS3 Tour.
Colin Moock talks about AS3, OOP and everything else he knows. You shouldn't miss this, so just register and we'll see us in Munich on February 20th.
Cheers
Post by Phil / January 29th, 2008
It's done! FINALLY IT IS DONE! ... this week our book is arriving at the bookstore near you. And it's all about Flash. The first half of the book covers very interesting aspects of ActionScript2.0. The second half introduces you to ActionScript 3.0, its new features and performance boost. So keep your eyes open and check it out.
Post by Aron / December 15th, 2007
In AS3 you finally have the possibility to close a Loader request using the Loader.close() function. The so far loaded data is cached, so when you initialize a new Loader it continues. This is working pretty well.
Post by Phil / November 9th, 2007
We are back from Brighton .... and it really was a blast!
Despite the time of year the weather was great - especially after last year's monsoon-like rains on the coast of Britain. We arrived in Brighton on Monday morning and went straight to the beautiful venue - the Brighton Dome. On the first day we attended some really interesting sessions:
