The bottlenecks of developping a desktop application using Flash and a wrapper

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 …

External Interface class

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 …

Diacritics stripper (Remover) tutorial.

Hello and salam; I have been working onthis project for a couple of hours now and I thought I should share with you my findings since I tried searching the internet and found nothing at all in this area, what I am trying to show you is how to remove Arabic diacritics from Arabic text …

Version 1.3.1 of Quran searcher and reciter (silent update) is released

Hello and salam; Version 1.3.1 of Quran searcher and reciter (silent update) is released, this is a silent update (the version number remains unchanged in the about tab) as there’s only few minor bugs fixed and one feature added: – Added a “tell a friend about this page” feature. Note that this is the only …

Advanced Arabic support workaround for Flash.

Hello everyone, I have been working for some time now on the development of the Quran Searcher and Reciter as you may have noticed; basically it’s an online application that allows you to search for the occurrences of a particular word in the holy Quran and to recite Quran verses or chapters. The Quran Searcher …