The second annual summit will be held in San Francisco in March. Participants include Mochimedia, Adobe, Kongregate, Traffichoney, and Gabob. For more details, see http://www.flashgamingsummit.com/
Background FlashVars is a mechanism to pass variables to a Flash SWF file. It is similar to a query-string and you can read more about it on this tutorial. FlashVars is useful to pass custom data and to customize the content of a SWF file. For overview of the FlashVars, look here. In the old […]
Create a new Project. Make sure the Components window is open. If not, open it using Window->Components. Drag component from the Components window into the stage. Resize it to the size you want. In the next step, you can decide the scaling mode of the video, such as maintainAspectRatio or noScale. Open the Parameters window. Use […]
iPhone likes CAF (Core Audio Format), but how do you create or convert to a CAF file? 1) Use the afconvert tool from Apple. This is a command line application that you need to run from the shell prompt. Example: Documentation: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/afconvert.1.html To batch multiple files, I have found it useful to write a batch […]
LocalConnection enables two or more Flash files to communicate with each other. You can also use other methods, such as SharedObject, but the benefit of LocalConnection is the real-time nature of LocalConnection. For more information, click Adobe documentation here. For an introduction to LocalConnection, please see this article which explains how to set up a […]
LocalConnection enables two or more Flash files to communicate with each other. You can also use other methods, such as SharedObject, but the benefit of LocalConnection is the real-time nature of LocalConnection. For more information, click Adobe documentation here. You can also use LocalConnection if you need to communicate with an ActionScript 2 Flash files. […]
There are times when you might want to iterate through and display the capabilities of the Flash Player. This snippet will do that: The output is something like this: hasPrinting=true hasScreenPlayback=true screenDPI=72 _internal=1 os=Windows Vista hasAccessibility=true hasMP3=true version=WIN 9,0,159,0 screenResolutionY=1050 hasEmbeddedVideo=true manufacturer=Adobe Windows hasVideoEncoder=true pixelAspectRatio=1 hasAudio=true screenResolutionX=1680 hasTLS=true isDebugger=true screenColor=color hasStreamingVideo=true serverString=A=t&SA=t&SV=t&EV=t&MP3=t&AE=t&VE=t&ACC=… language=en hasAudioEncoder=true playerType=PlugIn […]
Flash Garbage Collector executes at unpredictable times. The engineer at Adobe have alleviated this somewhat with the introduction of System.gc(); command. See the reference at: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/system/System.html#gc() I won’t argue whether it is a good or bad idea to call the garbage collector manually. I many cases, it is not necessary. However, I believe that there […]
