Last week I had to do something that I never thought of, let me present you the case: First of all we have a multiline, word-wrapped textfield in AS3, the text is picked up from an external XML file and gets styled with a CSS stylesheet, the textfield CAN have one line or multiple lines [...]
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AS3 & Facebook: Uploading Webcam Photos
Posted by Tiago on July 17, 2010
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Facebook.. Could you live without facebook nowadays? Sometimes I’m happy when I don’t get anything on facebook, just to have a bit of peace and quiet of it. Well, nevertheless, I’m writing this article because I’ve seen this post on the Adobe Forums by dmennenoh where he asked for the possibilities of using the Facebook [...]
AS3: QuickHint: Convert BitmapData to ByteArray
Posted by Tiago on July 17, 2010
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While writing my next post, about Facebook and Flash development, I noticed that there is something in my post drafts that I haven’t published yet, so I changed it a bit and here you go. On one of my last posts taking a screenshot with AS3 I’ve explained how to create a snapshot by using [...]
AS3: Take a screenshot of any Displayobject
Posted by Tiago on July 11, 2010
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Ok you want to take a snapshot of a movieclip, sprite, displayobject, shape or just simply the whole stage? That is a simple task to accomplish in AS3. Below a reusable function I wrote while working for one of our clients: private function getBitmapData( target:DisplayObject ) : BitmapData { if ( bd ) { bd [...]
OSMF – SpriteElement
Posted by Tiago on June 15, 2010
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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 [...]
