The benefit of always cleaning after yourself (AS Analogy)

When we were kids we had the pleasure of having mom, dad or an older sibling cleaning after ourselves. So if we left any dirty clothes on the floor or any dirty dishes on the table after eating any older mature adult would come up and clean up the mess. As we grew old hopefully […]

Documenting your classes with ASDoc in a MAC

After following different tutorials of how to run ASDoc on your computer and failing I finally was able to figure out a way to have it running with almost no issues at all, so I thought I would share my steps here for those of you still struggling with he situation. 1. First and most […]

Stop sound of loaded SWFs in AS3

Until now I didn’t have any issue when removing an item from the display list until the item had sound in it. This has to do with an application I am working on which loads several SWFs and they have to be turned “on” and “off”. When the SWF has to be turned off the […]

Flash Player with C++ Support

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0hX-Uh3oTcE” height=”242″ width=”300″ /] Scott Peterson shows Flash on C/C++ sneak peek at Adobe MAX Chicago

Google Android

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/1FJHYqE0RDg” height=”242″ width=”300″ /] Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo some applications.

Experience Adobe Acrobat 8

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Error #1063 When loading XML

If you get the following error when loading XML and trying to get the node attribute: ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch. It could be that you typed attributes instead of attribute.

DescribeType for AS 3.0

Use describeType rather than a for-loop to enlist an object properties.

Get The Glass

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Force close and open disk tray Mac

In a new command line type – drutil tray eject – to eject the disk or open a stuck tray. Type – drutil tray close – to close it.