A few friends showed me this ad. Incredible! Wonderful made. Please look how the background moves away to give space to the add and at the end the jar is zooming back in the movie. This is why Flash Player will evolve even more. I don’t think HTML5 will be able to do this (at [...]
If you need to know the key codes when implementing a keyboard event use the following application that displays some info about the pressed key. First you need to click on the application to have focus on it then you can start trying out different key strokes.
Some key codes, ASCII codes [...]
Our friend, Mihai Corlan, will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform, but let me quote him:
“On December 2nd, together with Roy Ganor from Zend Company, I will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform. We will show you how you can create a Rich Internet Application using the Flex framework, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, [...]
I was recently presented a component that I find interesting and useful at the same time, this is Flex/Flash Pivot Table and Charts component.
The Flexmonster team made a nice multidimensional data visualization, reporting and analysis tool for any BI solution. A few of most important features are:
Display large amounts of information the friendly way
Pivot [...]
Today, Adobe unveiled Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are.
A public beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and [...]
In this article from Google Webmaster Tools is presented the way Google manages Rich Media Files and Formats.
Some important points:
Google can index text in any flash content
sIFR is indexed as text by Google
Google is continually working to improve our indexing of Flash files
Google still have problems accessing the content of other rich media formats such [...]
Yesterday, Adobe released a new version of Pixel Bender. Now the last version released is 1.5.1.
If you don’t know what is Pixel Bender, this is in short words….
An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.
You can get it from Adobe Labs (about page and download page) and now there is [...]
Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
The last week I have been working on a Flash/Actionscript 3 project and everything worked well. The project got in an 75% finalized. Meanwhile I needed to install a software product and it crashed my Windows Vista. Saved the important data and tried to fix it without having to reinstall the whole OS and all [...]
On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate [...]
Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
Yesterday (19th of May) we’ve been attending the Adobe Developer Day in Bucharest. It took place at Intercontinental Hotel in various places because beside the general session there were other bootcamps taking place in the same time. Attendance was ok at least in the morning although more people could attend to the event. Interesting is [...]
I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:
How To Add [...]
In a previous article I explained how to create a custom preloader that will replace the very first flex preloader (the one that appears when starting application). That article was created using Flex Builder 2 and now needs an update because Flex Builder is at version 3 since a good time and Gumbo is on [...]