Helmut Granda

If you need to create a directory from Air and you dont know how, mostlikely you will use the Adobe Air Documentation and use something as the following:
JavaScript:

 
var directory = air.File.documentsDirectory;
directory = directory.resolvePath(”AIR Test”);
 
air.File.createDirectory(directory);
air.trace(directory.exists); // true
 

it all looks nice and makes sense but in the real world it wont work, you would get an error […]

I was talking the other day with a friend about a small challenge, having 2 images on stage with 2 ideas. 1- have the experience being user driven (in this case the mouse reveals one image while hiding the other) 2- Use XML for easy update. So we fired flash and […]

Title: Dynamic Sliders Numero 2
After working with the previous version of the sliders -se previous post-. I had the opportunity to “upgrade” the sliders since there was a slight chance that the sliders had to react to only one button rather than two as originally planned. Needless to say it wasn’t required to apply this […]

So I was working on a project where we needed some sliders, it was basically the same slider but in different sizes and positions. So today I was sitting there just wondering how I could make this more dynamic, and just put a small class together and created a small sample. Updating the sliders the […]

So I was running in to the following problem:
**Warning** The linkage identifier ‘RewindBtn’ was already assigned to the symbol ‘FLVPlayer_assets/Buttons/Rewind’, and cannot be assigned to the symbol ‘FLVPlayer_assets/Buttons/Rewind’, since linkage identifiers must be unique.
But in reallity I only had 1 button called Rewind with the Link ID of RewindBtn and nothing else. I even created […]

If you are a developer and you do some sort of backend work there is a chance one of your clients might ask you to install an application in GoDaddy servers.
So if you are trying to connect to a dabase within your application what GoDaddy recommends is to use mysql.secureserver.net as your hostname. Maybe […]

Tutorial details:
Written by: Helmut Granda , MX

Time: 15 minutes
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Tutorial details:
Written by: Helmut Granda , Flash MX

Time: 15 minutes

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