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 [...]
Tag Archives: Flash
Foundation Flash CS5
Posted by Tiago on August 8, 2010
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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 [...]
AS3: Multiline textfields and Line Metrics
Posted by Tiago on July 31, 2010
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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 [...]
AS3: Quickhint: Shared Objects
Posted by Tiago on July 24, 2010
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Last week while working on the interface for my new upcoming library I needed a way to save some data on the users computer, altough I’m working with AIR I could easily save an xml or a txt file to the users local computer, but as soon as I would start writing a pure as3 [...]
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 [...]
