Flash | Retrospective

A buddy of mine IM'd me last night and came across an interesting behaviour in Flash.  He had been trying to hunt down a memory leak in his Flash AS3 project and did a simple test using an Enter_Frame loop and traced out System.totalMemory.   His tests showed totalMemory going up just a little over time.  I [...]

I have tried unsuccessfully in ActionScript 3 to open a new window within my Flash app using navigateToURL w/o triggering the Firefox pop-up blocker.  This is a desired action by the user, triggered by MouseEvent.CLICK, allowScriptAccess=true,  and based on Firefox's dom.popup_allowed_events, it should work w/o being blocked.  I've googled other possibilities (http://skovalyov.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-prevent-pop-up-blocking-in.html) but haven't found a single [...]

Engadget had sneak peeks this morning and then Nokia updated their site recently: http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810,demo
I've been thinking about the Nokia N800 as a fun Flash development device. The 810 now has GPS, a full QWERTY keyboard (slides out from behind), and they are now using a Mozilla based browser. (I think they were using [...]

FITC Hollywood  starts next week (Oct 22-23) and it should be a blast.  I attended last year and expect more of the same this year.   Sunday (Oct 21) is the pre-festival workshops (Flash animation, PV3D, and Flash New Features).  I highly recommend John Grden's PV3D workshop.  I took his two day workshop at RMI  and [...]

I'm looking for a new toy to develop Flash for.    Ideally what I'd like is the iPhone, but with Flash on it. Since that hasn't happened and not sure it will happen, I'm looking for either a phone or mobile device (device needs wireless) that has a touch screen, can run Flash (either Flash Lite or Flash [...]