Category Archives: Adobe

AS3: Drawing dynamic anchor lines

Based on this post on the Adobe’s AS3 forum, I thought  I would create a simple class that takes care of the requested task. The whole idea is basically to draw a line dynamically between 2 displayobjects, on top of it when one object is being dragged the line is redrawn along based on the [...]

SWFObject & SWFAddress – compatibility

Who doesn’t know SWFObject & SWFAddress? These two JavaScript buddies are the best a serious Flash Developer can have. SWFObject embeds your Flash nicely and browser independent, it has gone a long way and now it’s even the default publishing method in Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst (not sure about Flash CS5 ), you can [...]

Must have: SWFFit

During the last project I worked on for ChocolatFrey I had a small problem that was bugging me. with the help of our inhouse stagemanager class where you can define minimum width & height of the stage the flash website always looked good, but as sson as the screen was smaller then the minimum defined [...]

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 [...]

OSMF is here!

Yay! the  open source media framework just went into production release 1.0. I’ve been working with the early betas of OSMF and it just rocks to see such a project going into production state, Flash developers need to constantly build audio/videoplayers ranging from simple video playback to very complex situations like playing multiple video formats [...]