Category Archives: Flash Player

URLRequest with HTTP authentication

Posted on 25/02/2010 by derRaab

I found a good explanation how to support HTTP authentication with URLRequests here. That’s the most interesting part: Best I can tell, for some reason, this only works where request method is POST; the headers don’t get set with GET … Continue reading →

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Pixel Bender in Flash Player is not hardware accelerated

Posted on 04/05/2009 by derRaab

I just came across this little note http://theflashblog.com/?p=822 and thought that might help to get some clarification.

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No flash events after PrintJob.start()

Posted on 06/11/2008 by derRaab

While developing the print functionality within a framework I got stuck on the behaviour of the Flash Player print implementation. I couldn’t solve the following steps: Start the PrintJob and display the print dialog Procceed the following tasks for every … Continue reading →

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Grant Skinners 50 reasons why AS 3 kicks ass

Posted on 31/05/2008 by derRaab

I found great slides on Grant Skinners blog. They give a quick introduction in AS 3 and it’s core benefits! 50 reasons why AS 3 kicks ass (Grant Skinner) Also a must read for developers! Update: And he also added … Continue reading →

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Adobe Flash Player 9 Security Changes

Posted on 10/05/2008 by derRaab

As a developer you should definitely have a look at this paper

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Flash Player GarbageCollection Problem

Posted on 23/04/2008 by derRaab

Grant Skinners post about the (for me) unknown problem with the Flash Player GarbageCollection is definitely a must read! One of my projects also has problems with external loaded contents wasting memory.

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Adobe should make some noise

Posted on 20/03/2008 by derRaab

I really love the work of André Michelle and Joa Ebert, especially if it’s about some cool audio stuff! But the Flash Player doesn’t provide enhanced audio support, actually it seems to get worse. So we all should support the … Continue reading →

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How to add MouseWheel support on Mac OS Flash Player

Posted on 29/10/2007 by derRaab

Gabriel Bucknail created almost a year ago a SWFObject add-on to bring MouseWheel support to the Mac OS X Flash Player. Seems to be still up to date: AS2-Solution or AS3-Solution

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