Sketchy Sunday: Soundflow Paul
Drawing smooth lines with the Flash drawing API and the haunting piano of Maxence Cyrin.
Flash
Error Embedding Fonts Across ApplicationDomains Mike Baker
I ran into a frustrating problem the other day while working on some client work. While attempting to register a font with Flash at runtime I was getting the following error: Error #1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid. Let me describe the situation. With the sites I’ve been working on recently we…
Problems with unloadAndStop? A Guide to Some Undocumented Caveats Mike Baker
Here’s the scenario; you’re writing a Flash application which loads in SWFs at runtime, uses them for some functionality, and then moves on. You want to do your due diligence and make sure the SWFs don’t stick around in memory because your application is so awesome users will be compelled to spend hours using it….
“Multi-threading” in Flash Mike Baker
More often than not, in Flash and ActionScript, user experience is everything and part of that experience includes a fluid/responsive UI. In some cases large amounts of data need to be processed as well, whether it be plotting 1000′s of points on a graph or parsing the configuration data of your sprawling <insert generic Facebook…
Setting Up Adobe Alchemy for Flash Jon Keon
If you aren’t aware, Alchemy is a tool made by Adobe that allows you to compile C or C++ code into AS3 Byte Code as a SWC or SWF file that you can then include in your traditional AS3 projects. While this is pretty cool, Adobe dropped the ball in terms of documenting just how…
