Hi, I’ve ran into this bug recently and tried to find a solution, a quick google search returned no answers to the issue so I thought I would post about the problem here and also post the solution / workaround I found. The problem is that the loader component (flash 8 AS2) is not scaling …
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Angora Rabbit From wikipedia: The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft hair. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit, originating in Ankara , Turkey , along with the Angora cat and Angora goat. The rabbits were popular pets with French royalty in the mid …
It is a fact, flash is growing fast and the new changes to its scripting language i.e. actionScript3 is the most radical change, being a professional AS2 programmer, I find myself amazed of how much things have changed in the new language, the web is full of articles talking about the transition from AS2 to …
Hello again, In part one, we saw an easy way to use the XML connector and dataBinding component to assign the contentPath propery of the media player component to one entry of an XML playlist. In this tutorial, we go one step further and add a dataGrid then bind the selected index of that grid …
One of my students, 17 years old Nadim Moughrabi, passed away two days ago in a car accident, I knew about it yesterday and I was really saddened by this big loss… We spend years and years with our students, we enjoy having them around and we don’t mind seeing them leave as graduates, we …
Hello guys, It’s been a while and I was very busy , could not get this data binding and XML connector tutorial posted. Excuse my delay. So here is the long waited xml connector and data biniding tutorial at last! Ok, let’s explain few things before we start. XML connector is a class whose job …
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Hello, Expect a new hot tutorial about XML connector and Data binding soon… These two are among the least known and understood, they however are truely time saving and extremely powerful. It will be up within two or three days. Regards
Flash is nice, eyecatching, fun for games and web intro and navigation as well as e-learning and a couple other stuff… Building a desktop application with Flash is however a different story. Of course you’ll need a “wrapper” around your swf to allow it to communicate with the file system to write to the hard …
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This new addition to ActionScript is a very wanted feature, older versions of flash scripting language relied completely on fscommand to comunicate with the flash ocx container, fscommand is very limited in functionality, the new externalInterface is much more versatile. Let’s consider the following scenario, you want to get the type of browser the user …