Monthly Archives: February 2008

The (IN)Security of Flash Part 2

Posted on February 25, 2008 by admin

Hacking Flash Website Templates by pythagoras Here is a method of easily obtaining a flash website template for free. This is of course, for information purposes only and I in no way condone stealing. These template peddlers need food and … Continue reading →

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Flex and Paypal – Adding a payPal “buy now” button in Flex

Posted on February 21, 2008 by admin

Adding a payPal “buy now” button in Flex example I’m in the early stages of developing a paypal shopping cart system in Flex. A cursory glance on the web told me that many of you have questions about this topic. … Continue reading →

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Flex – creating an xml photo gallery

Posted on February 18, 2008 by admin

EDIT: another xml photo gallery can be found here This is a method of creating a photo gallery in Flex with a main photo, and scrolling thumbnails, populated by an external XML file. This is a continuation of the concept … Continue reading →

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Flex – Creating an .flv video player with xml playlist

Posted on February 15, 2008 by admin

Flex – Creating an .flv video player with xml playlist [edit: improvement here] This is a method of creating a video player with a playlist (with thumbnails) populated by an external xml file, with flash and flex. This experiment also … Continue reading →

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Creating a 3D panorama in Flex using Papervision3D 2.0 GreatWhite

Posted on February 8, 2008 by admin

Creating a 3D panorama in Flex using Papervision3D 2.0 GreatWhite (part 1) example example showing outline of cube (thin pink lines) source Using papervision3D for 3D panoramas achieves the best results I have seen out there so far. It’s way … Continue reading →

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Creating a 3D model in Flex using Blender and papervision3D

Posted on February 1, 2008 by admin

creating a 3D model in Flex using Blender and Papervision3D – a beginning tutorial This tutorial is for beginners using papervision3d with flex. I’m not an expert, but I’ve been experimenting with it, and here’s a way to get started … Continue reading →

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Flex- removing border from menubar component

Posted on February 1, 2008 by admin

For some reason the menubar component doesn’t allow you to remove the border (borderStyle=”none”), in fact you can’t directly set the border style at all. Here’s a workaround: example The Border is drawn in the MenuBarBackgroundSkin.as file found in mx/skins/halo/. … Continue reading →

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