The goal here is to rewrite an existing thumb banner rotator that we were using at first on Cardlovers.com, a poker community (click the link or the image to see the final result). It was working OK when only loading images but something went wrong when we started loading shockwaves in it.

For some reason they wouldn’t unload properly, it could be the result of bad programming but the reason might also lie in the fact that the original is written in AS2 for player version 8.... Read More

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

I just finished the Flare shockwave that will replace stuff I previously made with jFlot. As you might know, I had to replace the processingjs linkmap with the Flare original due to performance issues with processingjs specifically and canvas + JS in general.... Read More

If you follow me on twitter you might know that processingjs didn’t work out for me, too slow for what I’m trying to do.... Read More

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

Well as it turns out the simple approach I outline there won’t work in IE7 for some reason (no don’t ask me why, I didn’t find any explanation no matter how much googling I did).... Read More

I just finished making the support document for Dive Admin, I did it in Flash by replicating the interface of the application and adding a lot of elements explaining it, as well as navigational interactivity. This approach should be easier for the end user to work with than having a 200 page manual where the feature he wants help with is on page 143, paragraph 5.... Read More

I’ve just finished remaking the menu/banner of Sea Bees, one of the bigger diving shops here in Phuket. ... 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…

So I started a new AS3 project instead and started googling my ass off for a quick solution (the designers I were demoing to started getting restless), which I found in the form of Oscar Trelles‘ nice AS3 Flash remoting example. I followed the tutorial but no it didn’t work. The staging server had .htaccess with password protection that ruined things this time. I had to give up, I told them I would get back to them and here I am!... Read More