KinRou’s Blog

Posts filed under 'Flash'

AS3 hidden treasure in the mm.cfg file

I never knew there was so many different tags for the mm.cfg file.

http://jpauclair.net/2010/02/10/mmcfg-treasure/

Add comment February 11th, 2010

Optimizing Flash for iPhone

This video http://2009.max.adobe.com/online/session/402 is going through all the technique a Flash developer should follow to develop content for the iPhone.The work is mainly around trying to make your code as effective and final as possible so the CPU does a little work as possible when the application runs.

Add comment February 8th, 2010

ELIPS Studio 3

ELIPS Studio 3 is a plug-in for Adobe Flex Builder which allows developers to develop in ActionScript but publish their work to different platform such iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, etc. One code base for all platforms… sounds ideal, right?
http://developer.openplug.com/

Add comment January 8th, 2010

AS3 to iPhone

Here is a breaking news. I did not see that one coming.
ActionScript developer are going to be able to develop for the iphone with ActionScript.

Read on here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

Add comment October 6th, 2009

Brush stroke in Flash

This is a very cool set of classes which allows to draw in Flash with a brush.

http://en.nicoptere.net/?p=476

Add comment September 16th, 2009

Processing for JavaScript

http://processingjs.org/ “is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games.”

Add comment August 12th, 2009

Flex 3 mxmlc compiler options

here is a list of all the mxmlc compiler options. This is a very handy list for when you start building ant tasks to compile your project and module.
http://www.docsultant.com/site2/articles/flex_cmd.html#mxmlc_3_opt

Add comment July 27th, 2009

Flash crossdomain.xml file

here is a page on the Adobe site which demystify everything about the cross doamain xml file settings.
~~http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/crossdomain_policy_file_spec.html~~
updated 25/10/09:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html
This file sits on the server where the data is being pulled from.

here is an example which will let everything through:

< ?xml version="1.0"?>
< !DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
< cross-domain-policy>

< site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/>
< allow-access-from domain="*" secure="false"/>
< allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*" secure="false"/>

< /cross-domain-policy>

Add comment June 12th, 2009

PixelPerfect Firefox addon

PixelPerfect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7943) is a very useful add-on for Firefox. It allows you to overlay a design contains in a JPG on the top of a HTML page or even a Flash object. This is a tool all developer should endorse.

Add comment April 29th, 2009