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 »
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 »
I was ranting about the Flash inteval inaccuracy in some older post. Finaly, there is an article by Tinic Uro that clarifies why intervals and frame rates accuracy in the flash player is so nasty. The article »
This interview provide a good introduction to Flex abilities and Adobe pov on future RIA. http://www2.sys-con.com/webinararchive.cfm?registered=on&pid=67 »
Some background: At the company I work for, we have a product that does realtime patent manipulation on user photos. Our web version of the product uses an Active-X control in symbiosis with a Flash GUI and tones of Javascript to communicate between them. Every time I suggested, to rewrite »