AS3 Tweetr library suffers from the Twitpocalypse bug

Friday, 06. 26. 2009  –  Category: Flash

It’s been a while that I’ve been programming ActionScript, but I recently started dusting off my rusty skills. I’ve been playing around with the Twitter API using swfjunkie’s Tweetr library. In the process I discovered that this library suffers from the Twitpocalypse bug.

No custom headers for Flash file upload. Why?

Monday, 10. 20. 2008  –  Category: Flash

I got excited when I learned that YouTube opened their API for third party developers. This would enable me to – for example – create a nifty AIR widget to quickly upload videos to my YouTube account. Drag-and-drop a video file onto the AIR app and have the uploading done in the background. Cool!

Building AIR with FDT

Sunday, 01. 27. 2008  –  Category: Flash

It’s been a while, but I had some spare moments lately to testdrive both FDT and the latest beta of AIR.

The cool thing about FDT is that it enables you to develop, test and package AIR applications straight from the Eclipse IDE. This process is explained in detail on the Powerflasher site. However, the Ant [...]

Adobe MAX 2007

Saturday, 10. 20. 2007  –  Category: Flash

This week I attended to the first ever Adobe MAX in Europe. It was held in beautiful Barcelona, which is a reason on its own to visit MAX of course. I was joined by two of my co-workers at Lost Boys, we had a great time attenting to the various sessions. The two things that [...]

mProjector WindowResizer class

Thursday, 09. 20. 2007  –  Category: Flash

As I mentioned earlier, I’m working on a new version of FLV Player. This new version will be created with mProjector, the Screentime tool to create standalone executables with. While working on this project, I found out that there is no built-in functionality in mProjector to drag-resize a window (like mWindow.startDrag, which allows you to [...]

ImageLoader class for Flash 8

Thursday, 08. 17. 2006  –  Category: Flash

This piece of code has been lying around for some time. I wrote it due to the fact that Flash 8 doesn’t smooth dynamically loaded images by default. This means that scaling and rotating any dynamically loaded image will make it look “jagged”.

The first (for as far as I know) to write Flash code to [...]

Using HTTP Authorization headers with Flash

Tuesday, 05. 9. 2006  –  Category: Flash

Today, I needed a way to load XML data from a password protected source (user: testuser, pass: testpass), preferably without a login popup. So I have been poking around in the HTTP header specs and found a solution by using the Authorization field.

In essence it is – like most things – quite simple. I guess [...]

Flash limitations in IE6 and IE7

Friday, 03. 10. 2006  –  Category: Flash

UPDATE - As of April 13, 2006, Microsoft has included this patch in the ‘critical updates’ section of WindowsUpdate, so the adoption rate of this patch is very likely to soar.

It is important to start updating your Flash embedding technique as Microsofts’ patch 912945, which limits initial interaction with ActiveX plugins in Internet Explorer 6, [...]

Flash Player 8 penetration over 55%

Wednesday, 02. 1. 2006  –  Category: Flash

At last, Adobe updated the Flash Player Version penetration page on their website, something I’ve been waiting for basically ever since Player 8 was released…

I need these numbers to convince clients, co-workers and management to develop Flash Player 8 projects and it looks like Flash Player 8 is being adopted quite fast, which [...]

Speaking at Spark Europe

Tuesday, 11. 8. 2005  –  Category: Flash

I’m excited to be given the opportunity to speak at Spark Europe, the Flash conference that is to be held next week in Amsterdam. I’ll be doing a joined session together with Ralph Hauwert, which is going to be a lot of fun.

Our topic will be “Advanced Expressiveness for Flash Developers”. We aim to show [...]

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