Today’s post veers from anything flash specific and goes to the more generic area of example code. For everything you want learn about in the world of programming there is some example code. Example code is a great way to see what book authors and blog posters are trying to explain in their posts. I’m [...]
With Flash CS4 ( and CS3 for that matter ) comes a great utility for simple visual effects, the Transition Manager and accompanying transitions. With this tool you can use some common transitions without much complex coding on your side. The following is a list of the available transitions. Blinds Fade Fly Iris Photo PixelDissolve [...]
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What’s new for flash in 2010? There is lots in the pipeline. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights.
At my current work, Provis Media Group, we do a lot of video for the web. We’ve had a lot of success with larger format video than is usually delivered via the internet. When Flash Player™ 9.0.115 came out allowing fullscreen h.264 video delivery things really took off. Quality went way up and we were [...]
Recently, Adobe released version 3.5 of the Flex SDK. I updated a project I was currently working on from 3.3 to 3.5 and I had to reset up my runtime shared library (RSL) for the project. This got me thinking that many people don’t know how to properly use RSLs. The world of flex development is better if we all use the the SDK RSLs so that is the topic of today’s post
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The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF ) is a new open source project managed by Adobe. It’s aim is to make the creation of media players a simpler process and to give everyone who uses it access to best practices that they may have missed while rolling their own. I took it for a test drive and here are my first thoughts.
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