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FlashEurope a scam: it’s “official”

Monday, 04. 4. 2005  –  Category: Flash

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the fact that FlashEurope was postponed once again. Today, Udo Thoennissen posted his reaction to that somewhat upset blog entry of mine. According to Udo, he has nothing to do with the conference and his name is being abused by Harold Angulo, who seems to be the [...]

JavaScript events in Flash

Tuesday, 03. 22. 2005  –  Category: Flash

There are a number of full-blown solutions on the market that provide you with two-way JavaScript <> Flash communication. I needed something similar, but much simpler: translate JavaScript functions to EventDispatcher events in Flash.

I started of with some Googlin’, but I couldn’t really find what I needed. And although this ActionScript 1 implementation by [...]

Split AccordionHeader in FLEX

Wednesday, 12. 29. 2004  –  Category: Flash

I’ve recently started using FLEX in order to develop a real-world application. One element I needed for that project was an Accordion. No biggie, that’s included with FLEX. But I wanted it to be special: with a split header for each section.

FLEX comes with a great set of default components, one of them is [...]

Comparing AS2 editors

Wednesday, 12. 22. 2004  –  Category: Flash

I’ve been testing various Flash ActionScript 2.0 editors for some time now and I still can’t decide which one suits me best. So, I’m looking for opinions. Which editor do you use for your AS2 development and, more importantly, why?

I’ve been playing around with:

Sapien PrimalScript 3.1
Sephiroth’s SE|PY
Meychi’s SciTE for AS2
Eclipse with AS2 plugin
Macromedia Dreamweaver

So [...]

Adobe Community letter

Thursday, 12. 16. 2004  –  Category: Flash

As I am one of the Dutch Macromedia Adobe Usergroup managers, I received a letter from Adode (in pdf, of course! that goes into some detail about the recent acquisition of Macromedia and how that relates to the community.

There is some explanation about the new positions some of Macromedia key figures now have [...]

8Ball: flash.filters.* ?

Sunday, 10. 24. 2004  –  Category: Flash

I had an email conversation today about the ActionScript visible in the demo Kevin Lynch showed in Tokyo this week (which was recorded by Colin Moock). Apparently, there’s a new object named ‘flash.filters’ available in the new Flash Player.

If you haven’t seen the video yet, you can check it out here. As you’ll notice in [...]

FlashEurope postponed to March 2005

Monday, 10. 11. 2004  –  Category: Flash

This rumour was in the air for some time, but I found it too hard to believe. Guess I’ll have to snap out of denial and accept the facts: The FlashEurope conference in Barcelona, Spain, has been postponed to March 2005.

“Press Release:
Looking forward to deliver the best of what the Flash community has to offer, [...]

AS2 XML Decompressor

Tuesday, 07. 13. 2004  –  Category: Flash

I recently stumbled upon an interesting method to reduce big XML files for use with Flash. It is based upon the LZ77 algorithm (Lempel-Ziv 1977) and enables you to compress static XML files to 20 / 30% of their original size.

XML is often the weapon of choice when importing data into a Flash client. Unfortunately, [...]

FSCommand Proxy for Flash Studio

Friday, 06. 18. 2004  –  Category: Flash

I don’t like fscommands. I guess everyone creating Windows applications using Flash and third party wrapper software will understand what I mean. But as I’m working on a standalone app, I created a generic fscommand proxy class that gives me callback / listener functionality in software such as Flash Studio Pro and SWF Studio.

When it [...]

ASDoc, continued…

Wednesday, 06. 16. 2004  –  Category: Flash

As I wrote earlier, Macromedia seems to be working on a new documentation standard, at least for Flash and Flex. Macromedian Mike Downey confirms this on his blog, but he also points out that there are no plans (yet) on releasing a dedicated documentation tool.

“[...] We just wanted to be clear that we are not [...]