Tag Archives: adobe
Hotwire: Quick and dirty event wireups in AS3
Posted on23. Feb, 2010 by lukesh.
Recently, I was tasked with building a quick AS3 project outside of our normal Flex framework projects. It was refreshing to just write a plain and simple AS3 project outside of the team environment where I could explore a few things without impacting the team by breaking our current project standards. One thing I’ve been [...]
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In defense of AS3
Posted on16. Jul, 2008 by lukesh.
As someone who has worked with Flash since FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia, and as someone with both a design / animation and programming background, I agree with Adobe’s decision to go with a more structured implementation of ActionScript in Flash with AS3. I believe it is a strategic move to position Flash as a [...]
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Policy file changes for Flash Player 9.0.124.0 strict security
Posted on10. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
Adobe has enhanced the security policy in Flash Player 9.0.115 and 9.0.124 that may cause some issues if you’re interacting with Web Services. Typically when I start a Flex project, I just throw a simple, open crossdomain.xml file on the root of the service site (or elsewhere) and go to town (which is poor practice to [...]
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Funny little bug in Flash E4X
Posted on30. May, 2008 by lukesh.
This works (outputs ID’s): new Array(); var attributes:XMLList = _data.Attributes..AttributeDescriptor; for each(var attribute:XML in attributes) { trace(attribute.@ID); } This doesn’t (outputs nulls): var attributes:XMLList = _data.Attributes..AttributeDescriptor; for each(var attribute:XML in attributes) { trace(attribute.@ID); } Any questions? Update: Kudos to Larry (developmentastic.com) for beating his head against this brick wall on the Winestore project.
