It occurs to me that too many people are not aware of the Flash 8 new and shiny ExternalInterface and are still using fscommand and setVariable or getURL for flash-javascript communication. In this post I’ll describe the advantages of ExternalInterface over the previous solutions, how to use it, a »
Macromedia Director has been declared dead and mourned over long before most of us switched to consuming solid food, but he always retained his strength as a fearsome hound. Even today, with the rising of Apollo and WPF this old dog doesn’t cease to amaze me. After we saw »
David Matthew, the author behind Informit Flash Reference Guide, has interviewed Aric Cohen from Microsoft. Aric is leading the development team building the WPE… The Interview »
I’ve stumbled across an interesting error today: Using the Object.watch can result in a crush of the Flash 7.0 / 7.2 IDE, the Flash 7 stand alone player, and the browser. Apparently this will happen when trying to delete all the properties of an object after one »
DeCompilers software makers excuse their doing by saying: “if you’ll ever lose your fla ….” Yeah right, the people who used it to retrieve their lost fla can be counted on one hand. I bat you were wondering what will be the future of these decompilers under the new AS3 »