Category Archives: Flash

Removing comments in CSS, HTML and ECMAScript (JavaScript)

Posted on 26/11/2011 by derRaab

While working on an Adobe AIR based source code editor I was looking for an easy way to remove comments from different kind of source codes. What first seemed like an easy regular expression turned out to be much more … Continue reading →

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Safari Flash Player detection problems with ClickToFlash

Posted on 06/06/2011 by derRaab

I really like the concept of blocking Flash, mainly because I don’t see these unwanted, crappy developed Flash adds sucking performance, but also because it’s a nice way to recognise Flash parts in websites. You’ll have your own reasons. Safari … Continue reading →

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FFK11 – beyond tellerrand notes

Posted on 08/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m still not sure if “beyond tellerrand” is a subtitle or will become the new brand for the one and only Flashforum conference here in germany. Sascha Wolter and Marc Thiele did a great job as always and even I … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, AIR, Conference, Flash, Flash on iOS, Flex, iPhone / iPad | 3 Comments

#FFK11

Posted on 05/04/2011 by derRaab

Contact me if you’re there: @derRaab

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iOS development with AIR 2.6 using FDT and my new friend ANT

Posted on 04/04/2011 by derRaab

Adobe recently released AIR 2.6 with improved iOS support, so I finally had to get into using ADT with ANT. My editor of choice is FDT so I wanted to do as less extra work as possible. Mainly because I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, ANT, FDT, Flash, Flash on iOS, iPhone / iPad, Terminal | 4 Comments

SWF meta tag

Posted on 04/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m always searching for it so here is a useful blogpost. As the latest FDT version ( Beta 4 ) does not set compiler arguments concerning SWF-size, framerate etc. by default I started using SWF-Metatags to specify these settings. I’m … Continue reading →

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Date.time vs. Date.setTime() getTime() performance

Posted on 24/03/2011 by derRaab

Using Date.setTime() and Date.getTime() is faster than Date.time. My quick speed test to determine the fastest way to get and set time values on Date objects: var date : Date = new Date(); var max : Number = date.time;   … Continue reading →

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iPhone / iPad ActionScript Guide quotes

Posted on 17/09/2010 by derRaab

As I mentioned here I strongly recommend to read Adobe’s Building ADOBE® AIR® Applications with the Packager for iPhone® guide or Flash Platform for iPhone. Just some ActionScript facts: ActionScript APIs unsupported on mobile devices ActionScript APIs specific to mobile … Continue reading →

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iPhone / iPad Development Guide quotes

Posted on 17/09/2010 by derRaab

Since I’m diving deeper into Flash for iOS devices I strongly recommend to read Adobe’s Building ADOBE® AIR® Applications with the Packager for iPhone® guide or Flash Platform for iPhone. Beside the know how of subscribing as a Apple developer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, iPhone / iPad, Mobile Devices | 4 Comments

iPad says hello to Flash community

Posted on 16/09/2010 by derRaab

Hello iPad. Maybe Apple denied compiling Apps with Flash because they just had problems delivering enough iPads to the Flash community? Since customer requests grow and a new version of iPad seems to appear on the horizon I decided to … Continue reading →

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