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AS3: Tracing in Flash/Flex
posted in ActionScript on 2011-08-16 import flash public str function debug movieclip void trace swf class -
Inspired by the article of Dru Kepple I decided to share my experience in Debugging processes in flash/flex enviroment.
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AS3: runtime font loading (embedding)
posted in ActionScript on 2011-04-25 font field loader import flash swf public static const format font_export_name string font_file_name class -
Flash is wonderful technology and has many advantages. Before a couple of years it was really popuplar to use it for displaying fonts that are not installed on the user's machine. Flash is still powerfull tool for such kind of tasks. These days I worked on a project which had to use a lot of fonts. It wasn't possible to embed all of them so I decided to implement runtime embedding.
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Deep linking in flash with AS3
posted in ActionScript on 2010-11-14 flash page function hash address deeplinkingclass dl html swf home -
Many people will say that Flash is not SEO friendly. Actually that's not 100% true. Flash is just a tool that shows your data. Exactly the same as the HTML. In this article I'll show you how to use ActionScript3 and JavaScript together to make your flash sites SEO friendly and provide a different URL for each of your pages.
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How to protect your SWF file
posted in ActionScript on 2010-10-15 function swf protect void check file import flash public ondatafiledtoload onfailed files string -
Is there any way to protect your flash work? To be honest the answer is NO. As you probably know everything that is uploaded on a web server and is accessible from a web browser is downloaded to the users' computers and could be found in the temporary directories. Once someone gets your swf file he could use one of the dozen decompilers to reproduce the .fla and .as files. Anyway, there are still some ways to make stealing difficult.
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Flex: tabbing bug
posted in ActionScript on 2009-09-29 swf jeff depascale attach swf jeff deactivate attach swf focusmanager deactivate attach tabenabled focusmanager deactivate tabchildren tabenabled focusmanager tabindex tabchildren tabenabled set tabindex tabchildren flex set tabindex embed flex set tab ordering swf swf embed flex - read more