June 2008

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ASCB library (for AS2) - website defaced
30.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

At the moment I am (sadly) working on amends to an ActionScript 2 app. It uses the Proxy class from the ASCB library (AS2 version).
It seems the site that hosted this code has been hijacked and replaced with some “leetspeak” and some awful song about God with the lyrics scrolling past karaoke-style.
I wonder [...]
AS3, Tech
Bug with TweenLite/Max: onComplete is fragile
26.06.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

I’ve just noticed a minor bug with TweenMax (and, I presume, TweenLite).
I set up a tween using TweenMax, and set an “onComplete” method. Then, after compiling, I noticed that there my method was throwing an NPE. However, instead of just throwing the exception once, it continued throwing it again and again: presumably, every frame. I [...]
Tech
FF3 breaks SWFAddress (sometimes) on OS X
17.06.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

I am noticing that the Firefox 3 beta stuffs up my Flash websites that use SWFAddress.
It doesn’t actually break the official examples, so maybe I’m doing something wrong, but my sites work fine in Safari (and on FF2) and break with FF3.
Mike Chambers notes that there has been a new release of FF3 beta to [...]
Tech
Liveblogging the webdu roundtable
13.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Questions from the audience in italics. Answers from various Adobe folks, I didn’t catch their names, sorry.
Will Adobe offer a Coldfusion IDE based on Eclipse?
“Having an IDE specifically for Coldfusion development is probably the most-requested features. We do take that very seriously … at the same time we are working on figuring out how we [...]
Tech
multi-touch, wiimote
13.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Just attended a seminar at the WebDu conference called “hooking stuff up to Flash just because you can”, by Michael Wise from omniEffect.
Very interesting; I learned about a lot of things I’d never heard of, like flosc, the Flash OpenSound Control. He explained how multi-touch screens work, in a way that made sense (total [...]
Tech
webdu irc channel
12.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I have just started #webdu on irc.freenode.net … let’s talk!
Tech
webdu 08 keynote
12.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Arrived late at the webdu conference at Sydney Convention Centre - just in time to catch the end of the keynote speech from the Adobe reps.
Flash CS4 looks interesting - in particular the ability to manipulate 3D rotations on an object (with the new 3D capabilities in Astro), and the animation controls, which are [...]

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