I always had the feeling, that the Magnetosphere iTunes visualizer from the babarian group was the most underrated piece of software ever. Apple is Apple, they really have some good taste. Since last night Magnetosphere is the default iTunes Visualizer. …

Keith Peters started hosting the great 25 lines contest (again) – a contest where you can do anything you want only it has to fit into 25 lines of ActionScript 3 code. I’m really curious what people will contribute. There …

UPDATE: There is a official buglist now. Please read this post. We are working with FDT since version 1.5 and think that it is by far the best ActionScript tool out there; we tried FlashDevelop, Sepi and all the others. Most of the people we work with are using FDT and most of them are pretty pleased, though some of them are a bit shocked when they see the price tag… However we have the feeling that since the release of FDT 3.0 Enterprise the development stocked somehow. In our daily work we found a lot of small and big bugs, more or less annoying. Some of them are so obvious and we are wondering why they don’t get fixed. The Bug section of their forum is sadly not usable for “real bugs” since its full of posts like “Help me, my FTD is not working”. So we decided to publish our own unofficial buglist. Of course, we sent them to the FDT team too and when a bug is fixed we’ll update the list asap.

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:

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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. But: Not inside …

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 …

We’ reusing the FTF wordpress-plugin to view code snippets/samples. It’s a really nice plugin which automatically colors /highlights your ActionScript (and even more: js, php, python). Just put some [ ftf ] brackets around your code … the plugin does the rest.

Aron and I are very exited about presenting to you our new blog. Soon more to come … P.S.: Thanks to Nils from forst für Gestaltung for creating such a hot blog for us !!!