Flash | Retrospective

John Grden is heading to Vegas for one of his famous two-day Papervision 3D workshops.   Check out the details here [LINK].  It’s going to be held at Alexis Park.  Its walking distance from the Hard Rock. You can walk to the strip or take one of the free shuttles from the Hard Rock to the […]

If you are new to ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3, check out Lee’s new Flash CS3 extension for writing the event code.   Very handy if you are starting out.  Based on initial response and Lee providing the source code, I’m sure we’ll see some great enchancements to this extension.
http://theflashblog.com/?p=331

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 [...]

Open-source and the Flash community are both great.  We share our ideas and source files freely.   How much money have we made off of someone else's free source code or their open-source product like Red5 or PV3D?  How much time have products like XRay saved us?   I bet LOTS would be the answer.  
John Grden wants [...]

Yahoo has a new revamped Flash Dev Center online and they've released some Flash CS3 components that we've wanted but Adobe didn't put into Flash CS3.
 http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/

Tree component
Menu
Tab
Autocomplete
Charts

A friend of mine was having problem with some ActionScript code on a frame and couldn't figure out why part of it was working and then it just stopped working. I took a quick look at this code and immediately saw a "return" statement where it shoudn't be. It was outside of a [...]