Articles for October, 2006

Flash 8 Advanced: Another sample chapter (Video)

Posted October 30, 2006 4:40 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Tutorials, Writing

I just discovered that another sample chapter of my book, this time the chapter on Flash Video, has been made available by the publisher.
The book is “Macromedia Flash 8 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide” (Peachpit Press), by Russell Chun and me.
The chapter is chapter 2, “Working with Video.” It covers converting video to FLV format (in […]

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Problem (and solution) : getURL() in a Flash projector fails in Firefox

Posted October 11, 2006 1:28 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Flex, Web Browsers

On Windows, using getURL() or a similar approach to open an HTML page from a SWF running in the standalone Flash Player (such as a Flash projector file running on a CD-ROM) doesn’t work if the user has Firefox set as their default browser. Here we’ll take a look at what’s causing the problem and how to work around it.

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Accessing local and remote resources in a locally running SWF

Posted October 6, 2006 12:25 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Flex, Tutorials

A few days ago I got a question about accessing local and remote resources from a SWF running locally:

I have a question. You say that in your presentation “[When they’re running locally,] SWF files are set to load local files only or remote files only — if you want to load the other type, it […]

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