Topic: Flash

Adobe opens door for creating alternative SWF players

Posted April 30, 2008 10:33 pm
Filed under: Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions

Adobe just announced a new project called the Open Screen Project. There’s a lot going on with the project, so I won’t try to summarize all the different points and partners. If you read through the material, you’ll see that a lot of it talks about opening the door for improving access and presentation/experience for […]

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Lots of big releases for Adobe AIR and Flash Player today. In no particular order:

Security update for Flash Player (“9.4”) (also see the DevNet article)
Security update for Adobe AIR (“1.0.1”)
New public Flash Player bugbase (also see the DevNet article)
Adobe Media Player 1.0 (with a lot more content now that it’s final — if you’ve tried it before but didn’t bother with it because of lack of content, it’s worth another look)

Note: I added AMP after this post was already published, since it wasn’t yet public at the time.

New Adobe Dev Center articles (Flash deep-linking and Flash CS3 DataGrid)

Posted November 13, 2007 11:14 am
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Tutorials, Writing

Several months ago I was asked to re-purpose two of my previous articles from this site for publication on the Adobe Developer Center (now renamed as the “Adobe Developer Connection”). The first one was published in September 2007, and the second was just published yesterday. So in a way this is sort of a revisiting […]

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Flash Player Astro’s identity crisis (or “What will ActionScript be like when it ‘grows up’?”)

Posted October 15, 2007 1:09 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions

Note: On Nov. 1, 2007 I made a small change to the title of this article. The original title was “Flash Player Astro’s personality conflict…” (substituting “identity crisis” in the current title with “personality conflict”). However, I realized that “personality conflict” wasn’t the most accurate term for what I was trying to communicate, and “identity […]

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Tours are starting to be all the rage with Adobe (and others). With the launch of CS3 Adobe did a conference tour, and of course there’s the onAIR bus tour that’s making it’s way around the country promoting AIR.

Now, if you or someone you know is a Flash designer with almost-none-to-basic ActionScript experience, and you want to learn ActionScript from the established master, you can do it for free. Adobe is sponsoring a free, one-day ActionScript training course given by Colin Moock that’s traveling around the U.S. (and eventually the world) starting in October 2007.

They’re calling it “Colin Moock’s ActionScript 3.0: From the Ground Up Tour.” And you shouldn’t feel intimidated if you are just getting started with ActionScript — the site explicitly says it’s not for advanced developers, so if you’re just getting going (i.e. you’ve done some frame scripts but not anything with classes) you should be in your element.

Currently it looks like there are stops scheduled in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. Even if you don’t live in one of those areas, think of it this way — for only the price of travel you’re getting an awesome training experience.

(via Stefan Gruenwedel)

How to: determining when data is edited using the Flash CS3 DataGrid component

Posted May 1, 2007 2:06 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Tutorials

Note: a version of this article was posted on the Adobe Developer Center in November 2007. That article is based heavily on this one — essentially I took the text here, and revised a few sentences and word choices for clarity. However, if you’re interested in the “latest” version, you can find it here: “Detecting […]

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The arguments are being made, and not just by the stereotypical open source advocates: some big-name industry analysts are suggesting that Flash Player should go open source, and that it won’t have the negative impacts that I and many others worry about:

Anne Zelenka: “Why Open is Good and How Open Could Be Good for Flash” (and it’s predecessor, linked to from that article).
Ted Leung: “Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web” (and its followup article, linked at the bottom)
Ryan Stewart: “How Adobe can overcome the issues around open sourcing the Flash Player” (he previously stated that Adobe shouldn’t open source Flash Player, so this is an interesting article with some new ideas I hadn’t seen before.)

“Introduction to ActionScript 3.0”: slides, files, and recording

Posted March 15, 2007 9:47 am
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions, Presentations, Tutorials

A few weeks back (February 21, 2007) I gave a presentation titled “Introduction to ActionScript 3.0” to the Indiana University Flash Users’ Group. The bulk of the presentation was a comparison between previous ActionScript versions and ActionScript 3.0, looking at syntax, the object model, event handling, how code runs in Flash Player, and more. I […]

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Loading a cfform SWF into another SWF

Posted March 6, 2007 1:27 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, ColdFusion Flash Forms, Flash, Tutorials

I haven’t written about ColdFusion Flash Forms in a while (I’m a Flex user now that you no longer need a server to create the content). However, this morning I got an interesting question from “trifide” that I hadn’t considered before, so I’m making a brief return into cfform land:
There are many attempts to loading […]

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XML-RPC client updated

Posted January 10, 2007 1:12 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Projects, Tutorials

In case anybody follows my site just to get updates on my XML-RPC client library… I’ve just released an updated version of my XML-RPC client library project.
The library is still in ActionScript 2.0—I haven’t finished porting it to ActionScript 3.0 yet, although I’ve started.
This release (.3 beta) contains a single bug fix. In anticipation of […]

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