After my initial ‘light’ look into deploying flash to the new play station portable flash player I have continued to research tips and tricks that may hold some value for development in this area.

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Shortly after working on the Ford S-Max micro site, I was involved in a second Multilingual Flash Micro Site for ford. This one is an update for the Ford Fusion and the first Market to launch the site is the Czech Republic. The site make uses a similar XML driven content system to the Ford [...]

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After updating my PSP to the new 2.7 firmware I started to put together some work to use the new Flash Player for the PSP I thought I would post some of my findings to date. As I continue to develop more PSP centric flash content I will continue to post more information as I [...]

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This week the latest Play Station Portable (PSP) firmware update was released for Japanese and US PSP owners, included in the update was an official version of the Flash Player. Being one of the many UK residents that simply could not wait to get my hands on the PSP. I happen to own a Japanese [...]

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After a brief break to test my new surf board I arrived back in London to trawl the in box of its usual detritus of spam and try and find the emails that I actually need. In amongst them was the news that a project I have had the great pleasure to be involved in [...]

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Yesterday i posted regarding an issue i stumbled uppon regarding the new saffron text engine in FP8. you can find the details of the issue here After the comments from Richard Leggett I have produced this working alteration to the code posted previously. The results while fixing the font adjustments as text is scaled, it [...]

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This week while working on another multilingual flash site, this time in Flash 8 I came across this interesting feature/bug with the new Flash 8 text anti aliasing. Let me explain the move below. The top section of the movie uses text fields with the anti-aliasing setting set to “anti-alias for readability” which is placed [...]

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It has been bought to my attention that the ‘Plain Text’ link of the iG:Syntax Hiliter plug-in I have been using for WordPress does not operate to well. Also some of the Flash ActionScripts I have been posting are rather large and so take a while to display and be formatted correctly. As a result [...]

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** UPDATE ** Due to issues being reported with regard to the plain text view of the code hilighter i am using here i have zipped the current LoadQueueManager Class and put it on its own downloads page HERE ** UPDATE ** Previously I had posted a code ‘snippet’ for a Load Queue Manager Class [...]

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I have added a small update to the Flash 8 photo gallery I produced. This allows me to specify the XML data source i wish the gallery to load from. In addition I have done a small amount of tidying up on the server in the build up to categorising some of my photographs, and [...]

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So I have been pretty busy of late with development of a simple Ford Micro Site. This is certainly one of the most interesting projects i have been able to work on in a while, and I have to say seems to be showing a trend towards flexible, yet visually strong multilingual sites. Previously i [...]

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http://theflashblog.com has a nice example of the undocumented setTimeout() function

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Using Flash 8 BitmapData class to streamline loading of high quality transparent images.

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The Flash 8 Gallery is a code and XML driven presentation utilizing AS 2 classes.

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Over the last few weeks i have been playing with flash 8, of course, here are the results so far…

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