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October 2008

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How to, Javascript, RIA
How To Scroll To Embeded SWF Object
Andrei Ionescu | 29.10.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

These days I was struggling with this problem: I needed to scroll the page (using javascript) to the embeded swf object. After some search and tests I used the following function (found here) to find the Y position of the object.

function findPosY(obj) {
var curtop = 0;
if(obj.offsetParent)
[...]
Debug, Flash Player
Flash Player 10 Debug Version
Andrei Ionescu | 24.10.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I think many of you want to develop applications for Flash Player 10 using Flex but without a debugger this is almost impossible. So if you want the Flash Player 10 Debug version directly download this archive from Adobe.
More about this on this page where you can find many other versions of flash player: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1.
ActionScript, How to
How to crop and resize an image used as background for canvas
Stelian Crisan | 16.10.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

This is a small working example about how to use an image as a background for a canvas, and how to crop and resize images. I’m sure that there are different approaches to this issue, so you are welcome to add your own solutions.
In order to crop the initial image, that was already [...]
Flash Player
Flash Player 10 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 15.10.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

YES! Flash Player 10 is out! Go here and install it. The current version is 10,0,12,36.
What is new?

3D effects
Custom filters
Advanced text support
Drawing API
Hardware acceleration
Dynamic sound generation
File upload and download APIs
Vector data type
Speex audio codec
Large bitmap support
Color management
Image import
Dynamic streaming
Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)
Full-screen playback
New text engine
Pixel Bender
Anti-aliasing engine (Saffron 3.1)
Enhanced read/write clipboard access
Enhanced [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, RoFUG
Flex Triangle Bucharest – Flex Camp on 06.11.2008
Andrei Ionescu | 10.10.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Next Flex Camp Bucharest Romania will take place at Adobe’s Offices on 6th November 2008 and is called Flex Triangle Bucharest. New thing is that in the same time two other cities will have Flex Camps: Vienna and Hamburg (that is why is called triangle).
Five presentations are available and are:

Project presentation – details, problems encountered, [...]
Made in Flex, RIA
SumoPaint – Best Online Photoshop
Andrei Ionescu | 09.10.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

In a previous article I presented Pixlr Image Editor. Now I found SumoPaint and is much better than Pixlr. Is faster, has more tools and the interface is much nicer.
Please enjoy it because is FREE. You can create an account if you want to save your work on the Sumo server but SumoPaint can [...]
ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML
How To Find On Which Divider of a HDividerBox a Double Click Event Occured
Andrei Ionescu | 08.10.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

This was a tricky issue… but solvable. I needed to found a way to collapse the left panel of a HDividedBox. This can be easily done by using moveDividerTo() method or setting getDividerAt().x (for vertical getDividerAt().y) property to the desired value. The problem is this: if you want to collapse the left at double click [...]

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