Demo here. I’ve noted that the framerate is much better when the shockwave is included in a proper document, as opposed to the standalone swf I just linked to.... Read More

In the prior time series tutorial I stated that I was going to use Flare in favor of stuff like jFlot and jqPlot.... Read More

I’ve just managed to get Xray to work, a great debugger. Xray needs two things to work, the connector which is a .swc you include in your AS3 code and the shockwave which will be connecting to, and communicating with, the connector.... Read More

Update: This visualization and other Flare stuff can be seen in a fully functioning state in the VizReader RSS reader.... Read More

In an earlier article I spoke about changing the stage size based on the URL of the page that loads the ShockWave. ... Read More

The other day I was asked to demonstrate how to setup AMFPHP in Flash. As I’ve already done it many times in Flash 8 with little or no problems I felt relaxed about it. The machine I was to demonstrate on only had Flash CS3, no problem I thought and fired up an Actionscript 2 project. The extra components you are required to install in Flash 8 are probably already integrated by now I thought and copy pasted code from an older project, hit ctrl-enter and got a debug window complaining about a lot of missing classes. Apparently you have to copy that stuff from somewhere in the Flash 8 program dir tree and put in the corresponding place in the Flash CS3 dir tree. We didn’t have any Flash 8 installed though…... Read More