tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270197642011-05-30T01:08:55.059-07:00I am Adi, Macromedia Flash MX & Flash MX 2004 Developer. Throughout my career I have been working with Flash since version 4 and its related technologies like Flash Communication/Media Server, Flex, Flash Remoting, XML, etc.Adihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380504487182998265noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27019764.post-30238859417114698442007-07-18T02:22:00.000-07:002007-07-18T02:25:32.740-07:00

A great article by Jeff Nuzz about the Flash Player and game development using Flash in PSP for all PSP users who loves Flash.http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/psp_games.html

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Adobe released Flex 3 public beta on labs. The major changes in this version are Support for the new Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) (formerly code named Apollo).Code refactoring.Memory and performance profilers.SWF file size reduction through persistent framework caching.Advanced datagrid.Know more and download it from here.

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A simple Trim class that I always use for trimming strings in Flash. Put this class in the classpath of flash (Normally in Windows: Hard Disk\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\language\Configuration\Classes) and you can call Trim.exec(string) whenever you wan't to trim any string.class Trim { public static function exec(str:String):String { var

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Microsoft says "Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web."Being in the very early stages, I am not sure how competitive it can be to most wideely used Flash. We have to wait and see. Know more about Silverlight.

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A very good news from Adobe to all Flex and Open-source lovers. Adobe is moving all the development of flex to an open-source model.Get more details on this from Adobe Labs.

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Flash 9 public alpha is available for download at Adobe Labs.This release is an extension of Flash 8 with AS 3 and Flash Player 9 publishing support which enables you to test the AS 3 features.

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Much awaited Flex 2 is out and you can get access to it from here.

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Anyone looking for Arabic to Roman number conversion function in flash? You can download it from here.I have written the function as I needed it for my current project and i thought of posting it online if anyone requires it. You can pass the number to the function and it will return the uppercase roman number.

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There is an article on CNET about a project code-named Apollo from Adobe. Apollo will be a desktop application and I guess it is a revamp version of Macromedia Central.According to Kevin Lynch, chief software architect and senior vice president of Adobe's platform business unit, Apollo is designed to give developers a way to create applications that can render Flash animations as well as HTML

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Today, I found an excellent debugging tool for flash called Xray. It's available through OSFlash.org, an open source portal for flash projects.Using this admin tool you can go through all the objects, movieclips, variables, etc and its values in your flash movie at runtime. This works when your flash movie is published in the FlashIDE, run through local flash player, or through web browser. This

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Today when I was searching the web for a class in ActionScript which generates GUID, I found an excellent class which is the part of ASCrypt library extension from Meychi.com.I found it very useful for generating unique id's in ActionScrpt. Based on the above extension I combined the required functions into a single class for my usage. So, if you are interested you can download the class from

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Adobe released the first prerelease version of SPRY framework for AJAX. It enables you to incorporate XML data into your HTML documents using HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of JavaScript, without the need for refreshing the entire page.The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer

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FlashDevelop, an open source .NET based editor for Actionscript 2 development. It has some cool unique features like Code folding, test movie option from editor, properties/methods listing for class files in a seperate ActionScript panel, autocomplete for AS and XML, AS syntax checking option and lot more.You can know more about it here.You can download the latest version of FlashDevelop from

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Macromedia.com is no more available and you will be redirected to Adobe.comAll the Adobe and Macromedia products are clubbed together and now you can view all of them under one roof. The user interface of the new Adobe.com is similar to Macromedia.com and it will not be hard for Macromedia.com users to get used to Adobe.comVisit Adobe.com

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With the recent update of Internet Explorer from Microsoft, the handling of interactive ActiveX controls like Flash, Applets, Quicktime, etc was drastically changed. These IE changes create annoying user experience for the users to always click on "Allow Blocked Content" on the top bar and say "Yes" to the alert to view the content and then click on the control to activate and interact with

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Follow the basic guidelines that are listed below so that your actionscript code will be easily understandalble to others and also easy to extend in the future.Type-cast each and every variable you use. Even in loops, function parameters, etc. For example var name:String;Name your variables in a descriptive way than using abbreviations. For example to declare a variable for "percentage" define

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OSFlash is an open source site for flash projects similar to SourceForge but totally restricted to flash community.It's a cool site for open source community who are interested in flash and you can find some really exciting projects hosted there.If you are interested in using or developing open source Flash tools, you can join the OSFlash community and host your projects there.

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XPathAPI class allows you to do simple XPath searches in Flash. This class will be very useful when you have to parse a large XML to find a particular node or a node based on a particular attribute value.Click here to know more about this call and how to use it.

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Checkout this listing, if you want a comparision of classes, functions, properties, etc in AS 2 and AS3. Also you can find out the deprecated/removed items in AS3. This is a very good resource and helps for migrating AS2 to AS3.

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Do you have a wishlist for Flash 9, then post them here.

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Adobe renamed Flash Player 8.5 to Flash Player 9. Instead of shipping as Flash Player 8.5, the player will ship as Flash Player 9. There will not be a version 8.5 release.The reason is, Flash Player 9 better reflects the significance of the advancements to the runtime environment to our customers and the market. This also allows us to maintain consistency between the player version and the file

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