Category Archives: Flash

Read files from a folder and create xml file with php

Posted on August 29, 2009 by admin

I recently did this for a flash mp3 player (I’ll write on that later), but it would work just fine for an xml photo gallery like the one shown here Basically what I was doing was creating quite a few … Continue reading →

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Using Flex swf to load html into frames

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

I recently had a reason to do this, and saw that many people online are having problems. Here’s a solution, and a few notes to help. First the Flex code:

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Text Effects in Flex with TweenMax

Posted on February 16, 2009 by admin

I’ve just been playing around with TweenMax for a short time, playing with animated filters on a Label control in Flex. There may be better ways to do this, but I thought I’d share: example code below:

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Flex Community Blog – WidgetBox Widget

Posted on February 2, 2009 by admin

Add the Flex Community Blog Widget to your site: embed the following code: if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(‘c881dce4-5c1f-4a64-96e7-91309fa59624′);Get the Flex Community Blog – Adobe Flex, Flash and Actio widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! You can also go to … Continue reading →

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Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine (review)

Posted on October 18, 2008 by admin

I just read the second issue of Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine, the cover story being “A Breath of Fresh AIR for Desktop Apps” – And let me tell you, this magazine is a breath of fresh air for me!

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Undocumented Maximum FontSize

Posted on September 29, 2008 by admin

It seems that there is a 127 maximum font size for (at least) label and textArea. If you set fontSize larger than that it will stay at 127. Very annoying. (Ugly) workaround: use scaleX and scaleY to make text bigger. … Continue reading →

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Review – FlashEff Component (part 1)

Posted on September 25, 2008 by admin

I just got the FlashEff Text animation component. I will write a more complete review (with examples) after I have played around with it more. I just wanted to report that my first impression is good. I looked at my … Continue reading →

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Flex ActionScript 3.0 Typewriter Effect

Posted on July 13, 2008 by admin

This is a slight modification of the Flash Typewriter effect found here: sample (right click for source)

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Turning Flash CS3 assets into Flex components – Integration of Flash and Flex using Flex Component Kit

Posted on June 24, 2008 by admin

(A Flash CS3 FLV player integrated into Flex 3) click for source EDIT: EXAMPLE HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN FOR BANDWIDTH REASONS – USE THE ABOVE LINK TO VIEW SOURCE EDIT: re: FLVPlayback component in Flex http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=2&postId=13927 This is a method … Continue reading →

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(No) Fun With HTML – Working With HTML Text In Flex

Posted on June 11, 2008 by admin

Working with HTML text in Flex [edit: found an interesting article on this recently here] I have recently been working alot populating TextFields with HTML text in Flex. I have noticed, as the community also shows with a quick google … Continue reading →

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