Category Archives: Flash

OSMF – SpriteElement

The Open Source Media Framework went live a few weeks ago with it’s first release 1.0, I already worked with various sprint versions of it, and lately created a final project using OSMF. Something that I was missing was the capability of displaying a Sprite or Text Element inside a Serial- or Parallel-Element. So I’ve [...]

Megaphone Presentation & Recording

Below the presentation that Marcel Vogt and me gave on the 34th SFUG Meeting which took place at Publicis on the 20th of April 2010. For further reference or any questions please let me know and I will try to help you out as good as I can. The Connect recording of our session can [...]

Adobe Developer Week

During Developer Week, learn about the Adobe® Flash® Platform, including Adobe® Flex®, Adobe® Flash® Builder™, Adobe® AIR®, Adobe® Flash® Player, and how it integrates with Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 technologies. This weeklong event features free, live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive [...]

AS3 – textfield setSelection()

Have you tried to set selection on atextfield after a validation procedure? Have you noticed that it doesn’t work quite right? Here’s the quick solution for that: Normally you would use the yourTextField.setSelection(startIndex, endIndex); method, but like I said before that doesn’t really work very well. You just need to set the focus to the [...]

AS3: quick hint – Converting int to date

Ok, this just drove me nuts for a few minutes.. I’m getting the server time UNIX formatted, I was constantly trying to convert the integer to a readable date, constantly getting the wrong year (the default or zero unix year is 1970) but aren’t we living in 2009? So for future reference and for anyone [...]