Why Apple will not allow the iPhone to be compatible with Adobe Flash

Introduction I recently read a brilliant article by John Haughton in the Observer, Apple’s iPad war on Adobe and Flash. Which relates to my previous post, Using Flash Professional CS5 to publish AS3 projects to run as native applications for iPhone. Coincidently I was reading Dynamics of Software Development by Jim McCarthy, and the phrase … Continue reading →

Using Flash Professional CS5 to publish AS3 projects to run as native applications for iPhone

Introduction Excuse the long title, but I’m trying to be very specific. I’m naturally dubious about how good what might be an Objective-C Emulator be? As Adobe Flash Professional CS5 has not yet been released, I might hev to wait to test this new feature. Packager for iPhone The Adobe page, Packager for iPhone has … Continue reading →

Importing Illustrator Files to Flash

Copying images from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Flash, which require a Gradient Introduction As I generally stick to the code side of Flash, I’m a bit rusty when it comes to the design and Timeline stuff. I needed to import Illustrator content to a Flash Movie, I assumed ‘copy and paste’ would be OK and … Continue reading →

The ASDoc tool

The ASDoc Tool Further to my post on Java Style Docs with ZenDoc, I’ve found and used a better tool ASDoc. I’ve used parts of FDTKit to enable an ANT script to create a directory with the documentation. The process of using FDTKit can be viewed here: FDTKit Documentation & Usage Guide, theres too much … Continue reading →

ActionScript 3 Books

Introduction With the introduction of ActionScript 3.0 with Flash 9, ActionScript has matured into a well rounded programming language. The implications is that Flash content can created with a Code library and without any content or inline code on the Flash Timeline. It is also possible to compile swf content without recourse to the Flash … Continue reading →

Creating Subversion Repository and new Flash Project in Eclipse in OSX

Introduction I have already created a post Copying Base Project in Reposoitory to new Project in Eclipse/FDT, and wanted to document my approach in creating a Flash project from scratch. The advantage of starting a project from scratch from a Subversion Repository is the ability to use Trac from the onset of the project. Requirements … Continue reading →

SWFObject 2 generator

SWFObject 2 Generator. I usually use the SWF Object to embed by swf’s and I am adding a quick link to the generator here. The online SWF Object generator at: SWFObject 2 HTML and JavaScript generator v1.2

Sprouts

Whilst searching for information about MTASC Commands I came across site the Sprouts site. An ‘an open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3’…. As I’ve been looking at Ruby using the OSX Terminal and am interested in further experiments in finding new an better ways to compile and build swfs … Continue reading →

Flash Bloggers

Searching the Web I’ve come across many good Flash Blogs which I will Document here: Lee Brimelow’s blog, TheFlashBlog, also the author of gotoAndLearn tutorials. automatalabs Pixelfumes a Pittsburgh-based multimedia solutions company. They have also provided articles for the Adobe devnet site. Mike Chambers Razorberry. There are some good AS2 and AS3 functions on the … Continue reading →

ActionScript CodeSnippets

I was looking for some good Flash programming articles to add to by post Flash Programming – Good Articles, and came across Jim Bumgardner’s blog, which in turn led me to this solution he posted to the FlashKit forum 2-State Button. In the examples he uses the XOR operator: ^ and the conditional operator: ?: … Continue reading →