Category Archives: Flash

another blog, more authors

Two weeks ago me and my fellow co-workers have started our company blog which can be reached at http://blog.publicis-modem.ch every open source initiative, project or library that we create will be published there. I might do a cross link to a blog post or even write a little more about it, but I think you [...]

AS3: OSMF LightweightElement

You are in need of a simple video player, iightweight and easy to use? You think OSMF is too complicated, let me correct you and present you the LightVideoElement Class. Simple to use, quickly up and running and all needed “basic” features available. It’s even a default in OSMF, I actually wonder why no one [...]

AS3: Embed specific characters (part.2)

Just as a quick update, I’ve updated the previously created unicode finder app, to be a bit more helpful for the everyday usage. Here a list of things that have been changed: No double unicodes. Automatic generation of embed code, easy for you to copy & paste directly into your application. One thing that I [...]

AS3: Embed specific characters

You might have read on one of my previous tweets, where I was screaming about using “special” characters in Flash, with “special” I mean arabic, cyrillic, hebrew, chinese simplified and traditional, as well japanese. I know,  I know, there is TLF (Text Layout Framework) that handles the whole text, but I’m talking about embedding the [...]

Foundation Flash CS5

After 4 years Tom Green and I just published our latest book, this time we are not talking about Flash & After Effects, rather the newest and coolest version since the history of Flash, Adobe’s Flash CS5. If you are just learning the ins and outs of flash, then this is a book you shouldn’t [...]