Posts in: ActionScript, Flash & Flex
- Debugging Flash applications with Firefox extensions
- Using ExternalInterface and Firebug Lately, the day job has had me busting booty on a Flash/ActionScript project that makes considerable use of the ExternalInterface class. ExternalInterface allows Flash to communicate with its HTML container using JavaScript. It’s a groovy feature, but one that changes the development process a bit. Unlike straight-up Flash development, ExternalInterface requires you [...] [1 May 2009]
- An all Flash / SWF search engine roundup
- SWFs to become fully searchable SWF searchability FAQ Improved Flash indexing (Google’s announcement) Adobe, Google and Yahoo Join Forces To Make Flash More Searchable [1 Jul 2008]
- Clearing LoadVars() in ActionScript
- The LoadVars() object is a funny thing. It’s basically a bucket for variables that you’d like to load into and send from an SWF file, as well as any methods and event handlers you invoke. LoadVars() can be problematic, however, if you ever find yourself reusing the same object for repeated load() or sendAndLoad() operations. [...] [9 May 2008]
- Flash 9 player hits 90%
- According to Adobe’s latest release on Flash player penetration, Flash 9 has reached 90% in mature markets. That’s about a 7 percentage point increase from March 2007. See the complete stats. [3 Sep 2007]
- OurIndustryIsBroken.com: Tracking site users and traffic with PHP, MySQL and ActionScript
- You may remember that FletcherMartin launched OurIndustryIsBroken.com back in April. After receiving some feedback about the site, we tweaked it to enhance the user experience and allow us to track how visitors use the site. We’re using Google Analytics for high-level analysis such as referrals and search engine traffic. But we wanted to do more robust [...] [23 Jul 2007]
- Boston, MA: Flashforward 2007
- Flash and ActionScript heads listen up: This year’s Flashforward conference will be held in Boston in the fall. Speakers include John Maeda of of the MIT Media Lab and Craig Swann of CRASH!MEDIA. Session topics will include ActionScript 3.0, Flex and Designing with Sound. Flashforward is produced by Lynda.com events. Event details When: September 19th through 21st, 2007 Where: [...] [23 May 2007]
- JavaScript from HTML loaded into Flash
- An answer to the question that you may or may not have asked: Yes it is possible to invoke a JavaScript function from HTML content that has been loaded into Flash. You can read the rest of the post, or jump straight to the example (and maybe come back to the post afterwards). Let’s say you [...] [5 Feb 2007]
- Methods for embedding Flash
- I stumbled across this year-old post: In search of … a perfect plugin technique. Lots of good stuff about the pros-and-cons of various means of embedding Flash content. I’m partial to two methods: Using JavaScript to write the object and embed tags, and providing a <noscript> alternative, such as a static image. Using the object element, and embedding [...] [14 Nov 2006]
- Hollywood, CA: FITC Hollywood
- Three days of presentations and workshops on Flash, including ActionScript, design, gaming, mobile and motion graphics. Scheduled presentations and presenters include: “An Indepth Look at ActionScript 3” by Daniel Dura “Building Commercial Sites with Streaming Content” by Daniel Kremsa “Cell Phone Interactivity: Harnessing the Universal Input Device” by Jacob Bullock “Creating Flash Lite 2 Video Applications” by James Talbot “Everything [...] [29 Aug 2006]
- Parsing XML using Flash and ActionScript 2.0
- This is my first attempt at parsing XML using ActionScript. The stuff between the <pre> and </pre> tags is released to the public domain. Do what you will with it. Be aware though, that I can’t offer technical support … mostly because I don’t know enough to help you. First, the XML: <alldots> <dotname id=”bigDot” color=”0xff0000″ [...] [18 Jul 2006]