Macromedia’s ASDoc

Tuesday, 06. 15. 2004  –  Category: Flash

Macromedia recently released a new version of the Remoting Components, which now fully support ActionScript 2. Together with the components, a bunch of AS2 Remoting classes were made public as well. As Macromedia states on their website, these have been documented using “ASDoc”. ASDoc? What’s up with that?

What’s this ASDoc standard that’s being mentioned on [...]

Timer class updated

Friday, 05. 14. 2004  –  Category: Flash

I’ve updated my previously posted Timer class. It has been extended with (a slightly modified version of) Design Nation’s Callback class to allow for executing a callback function when the timer is ready. I’ve also made some changes to the events broadcasted by the Timer class.

To use this class, simply download the source files and [...]

Timer class

Sunday, 03. 28. 2004  –  Category: Flash

Timer is a simple ActionScript 2 class that enables you to create timers for whatever purpose. I’ve been using this class in my own projects quite a lot, and I thought it might come in handy, so it is now available for download and suggestions.

To use this class, simply download the source files, place it [...]

FForm alpha released

Monday, 12. 15. 2003  –  Category: Flash

As I wrote earlier, I created a simple flash based engine called FForm to parse an xml file into a Flash based form. Much like Macromedia’s FLEX, albeit much simpler and client side instead of server side. The form elements allow for very dynamic forms that react on user input by showing and hiding child [...]

Macromedia FLEX announced

Monday, 11. 17. 2003  –  Category: Flash

I just participated in a Breeze Live presentation by Macromedia product evangelist “Christophe Coenraets:http://coenraets.org/. Topic of conversation was a hot new Macromedia product: FLEX. Formerly known as Royale, FLEX will make a RIA developers life a whole lot easier by introducing an XML based language to generate full-blown Flash RIA’s.

FLEX Basically allows you to specify [...]

Hello, _targetInstanceName!

Tuesday, 10. 28. 2003  –  Category: Flash

Yesterday I was raving on the non-functioning of good ol’ _targetInstanceName in Flash MX 2004. Some hours after posting, I received a email from Macromedian Vera Fleischer in which she promised to ask around at the Components QA Engineers to see if they have a solution. Guess what: they do!

The solution is pretty straightforward. [...]

Goodbye, _targetInstanceName?

Monday, 10. 27. 2003  –  Category: Flash

It looks like there’s no way to use the very powerful _targetInstanceName property with Flash MX 2004 components. This variable used to be filled out automatically by the Flash IDE when a user drag-dropped a component from the Library onto a movieclip or button at the Stage, but this behaviour seems to be discontinued in [...]

Flashtival 2003

Tuesday, 10. 7. 2003  –  Category: Flash

I was invited by Macromedia to speak at Flashtival 2003, a (Dutch) Flash MX 2004 (and a little bit of Coldfusion) oriented get-together.

At the Flashtival 2003 conference, a number of Dutch and Belgian speakers shared their experiences with the Studio MX 2004 products from Macromedia, although the emphasis was mostly on Flash MX 2004. The [...]

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