Category Archives: Flex

Open Source Media Framework 1.0

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

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?

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

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

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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Flash and Amazon SimpleDB

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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ActionScript 3 API Reference for the iPhone

http://www.mikechambers.com/as3iphone/ Nice to have!

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Create Custom Flex Components with Flash

I found a Adobe TV Video which contains basic knowledge how to create custom Flex components with Flash CS3:

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Adobe AIR flash.filesystem.File methods throw Error 2037 when no nativePath is set

While developing an Flex based AIR Application I figured out an issue with the flash.filesystem.File class. I tried to access properties like exists, nativePath etc. before a nativePath was set using a browse method. So the while debugging the following … Continue reading

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Select and access local SWF files within an AIR application

Well, it took me a little time to figure out how to select and load a local SWF file into an SWFLoader instance. Several times I got this error message: SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content … Continue reading

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