http://blog.derraab.com Information Accumulation. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:44:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 with executable code.” After some research I found this "dreaming in flash" ... http://blog.derraab.com/2008/06/17/select-and-access-local-swf-files-within-an-air-application/ 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 more slides from a workshop here http://blog.derraab.com/2008/05/31/grant-skinners-50-reasons-why-as-3-kicks-ass/ Since I have to use Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac I figured out some issue: During opening a clean XHTML file with external CSS declarations Word can find these CSS files only in the same directory. I tried serveral ways to declare the href tag, but only the last one ... http://blog.derraab.com/2008/05/29/microsoft-word-error-during-html-import/ As a developer you should definitely have a look at this paper http://blog.derraab.com/2008/05/10/adobe-flash-player-9-security-changes/ 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. http://blog.derraab.com/2008/04/23/flash-player-garbagecollection-problem/ This is simply the link list contained in the recently released Adobe technology platform ActionScript Reference PDF. API References Adobe ActionScript 3 Language Reference Adobe AIR JavaScript Language Reference Documentation Flex 3 Documentation Adobe AIR Documentation Developer Centers Adobe Developer Center Adobe AIR Developer Center Flex Developer Center Flash Player Developer Center Downloads Flex ... http://blog.derraab.com/2008/03/20/adobe-technology-platform-ria-guide/ 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 Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE campain! http://blog.derraab.com/2008/03/20/adobe-should-make-some-noise/ AIR applications are not permitted to write to the application resource directory. This seems to be a security feature and makes sense, because some systems would not allow to write into this directory at system level. But for testing purposes you might hack this by using a single line of code: [AS]// ... http://blog.derraab.com/2008/03/12/write-with-air-applications-to-the-application-resource-directory/ Find out: http://blog.derraab.com/2008/02/08/are-you-singularity/ Just a quick note: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101258 Adobe products are calling 2O7.net (192.168.112.2O7.net) and send statistics. Visit 2O7.net to disable this. http://blog.derraab.com/2008/01/04/adobe-creative-suite-is-calling-mummy/