Category Archives: Flash

YouTube about Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag

Posted on 30/06/2010 by derRaab

Interesting YouTube API Blog post explains why YouTube uses Flash Player for video playback: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html

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Open Source Media Framework 1.0

Posted on 28/05/2010 by derRaab

Adobe recently released OSMF version 1.0! Again just some links: OSMF Blog – Announcing OSMF 1.0! Source ZIP Release Notes PDF ASDocs ZIP

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Flash Performance Visualizer

Posted on 26/05/2010 by derRaab

Mr.doop’s Hi-ReS! Stats is a must have for every ActionScript developer. Seems to be still no. 1! And I don’t want to search again… So here just the links: Mr.doop’s blog | Hi-ReS! Stats Mr.doop’s Stats.as @ GitHub

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Undocumented XMLUtil class in Adobe Flash CS5?

Posted on 18/05/2010 by derRaab

I tried to recompile an older Flash CS 4 project with Flash CS 5 but got this compile time error 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method reuseNodes through a reference with static type Class caused by the usage of … Continue reading →

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Aligning Flash TextField instances visually correct

Posted on 16/05/2010 by derRaab

I was looking for an easy way to align TextField instances with different font sizes visually correct. I really thought this wouldn’t take much time but it turned out to become really frustrating. So think about a simple scenario: Try … Continue reading →

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FFK10 – Flashforum conference notes

Posted on 20/04/2010 by derRaab

Every year I spend two days sitting in the audience of the Flashforum conference (FFK) listening to great speakers and getting impressed by their experiments and thoughts. It’s also a good way to renew some of the basic knowledge in … Continue reading →

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Embed fonts with Adobe Flash IDE

Posted on 10/04/2010 by derRaab

Almost every Flash project needs some embedded fonts and it is a good practice to compile the fonts into a separate SWF file. So here is a simple way to create a file that contains only embedded fonts. The SWF … Continue reading →

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Flash Player Security

Posted on 30/03/2010 by derRaab

Just some helpful links: Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 Policy file changes in Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10

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Flash and Amazon SimpleDB

Posted on 26/03/2010 by derRaab

I did some research about using Amazons SimpleDB service within a Flash based application and found these basic facts: http://sdb.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml is not available. This means no direct calls from Flash clients in browsers are possible! Even if it would be … Continue reading →

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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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