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SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation
With more and more full screen Flash web sites appearing on the internet, it's important to understand how to properly embed the Flash movie in the browser window. In this tutorial we will cover best practice embedding of SWF movies using SWFObject with a custom function for adding browser scrollbars for smaller browser windows.
Continue reading...Exploring runtime styling with the Native Window Explorer in Adobe AIR
8. June 2009
In this Adobe AIR tutorial you will use runtime styling to create a dynamic native window in AIR. We will show you how to load and unload styles, performance concerns and best practice while also showing you the value of knowing your environment.
Continue reading...Setup Alternativa3D Development Environment
13. May 2009
After our Alternativa 3D tutorials series, still some to know about how to setup Flex Builder correctly in order to start deploying their own Alternativa3D Flash Applications. Therefore we created this tutorial to guide and help you through the steps of setting up an Alternativa3D development environment. After completion of this tutorial, be sure to have a look to the Alternativa 3D tutorials series, stepping you in some of the most important features of this powerful Flash 3D engine.
Continue reading...Integrate Flex Builder 3.0 & Php easly with the fresh ZendAMF
11. May 2009
In this article I will explain how to build a simple adobe flex application that communicates with php using remote objects calls to the new AMF php implementation suported by adobe and called ZendAMF.
Continue reading...Create and Skin a Photo Gallery with Flickr, Flex and Actionscript 3.0
4. May 2009
This flex tutorial shows you how to create a simple Flex photo gallery that uses the Flickr Feeds to obtain the photos. It shows you how to use custom skins, HTTPRequest's and custom components.
Continue reading...Saving User Generated Imagery from an AIR Application Using the JPG and PNG Encoder Classes and Flash CS4
1. April 2009
While anyone with an intimate knowledge of encoding bits of information can write their own JPG or PNG encoder, isn't it great to know that Adobe already provides classes to take care of it?
Continue reading...Dynamically loading fonts with FontLoader and applying styles with CSS stylesheet in Actionscript 3.0
18. March 2009
You are going to learn, how to easily load fonts apply a css stylesheet to a textfield. Until now, it has always been a big mess dynamicaly loading fonts. With the new fontloader from etcs.ru the process got easy as pie.
Continue reading...Working with XML, E4X and ActionScript 3
12. March 2009
On more than one occasion I have asked developers if they had experience with E4X. I am often surprised to find that some aren’t sure what this amazing ”thing” is and others have been using E4X without even realizing it! In this article we will try to demystify the E4X.
Continue reading...Setting up Away3d with Flex 3
1. September 2008
In this tutorial I will show you how to set up a simple away3d scene, taking advantage of FlexBuilder's enhanced programming interface. I will also take advantage of the tutorial to introduce Flex to Flash developers who have never used it.
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29. June 2009
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