For those of you that are developing Flash Lite applications and games you will be well aware of the issues of Memory leaks in the Flash lite player. One area where this can occur is in the creation of “crossed references”. These result in objects that are effectively locked as far as Garbage Collection is [...]

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This morning i was passed this wonderful looking Flash game. Reminiscent of old television programs such as Postman Pat, Canberwick Green, and Trumpton.
The game is played out in the Board game stylee. Brilliant!
Get the glass

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Today on Adobe.com I noticed the news that Adobe have released the source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to Mozilla Foundation.
The release, which is dated 7th November 2006 can be found here and provides more information. From the release it sound like the code is to be included into future releases of the fire [...]

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I had intended to post information about this before going on holiday but it got missed before leaving. Thanks to Jester for reminding me, I finally checked the comments
Long post short its here.

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As Mike over at Flashgen.com and also Aral Balkan reports it seems someone is looking to contest the ridiculous Balthaser RIA patent that was reported a while ago by a number of Flash developers. I have also been contacted by Oliver Lorenz with regard to providing more information and certainly urge anyone that wants to [...]

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Wunderman Interactive have just launched the second phase to the Land Rover Go Beyond site. The site offers user generated input to the content base and utilises a lot of Flash 8 features, with the back end being controlled through Flash Remoting. The challenges on such a flexible project are immense, it was a pleasure [...]

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I have had a number of emails, messenger texts, and comment’s on my blog, asking for further information from my presentation notes on localizing flash. Localizing flash has such a wide scope of information, when I prepared my presentation I did take the ‘data blast’ approach of delivery.
I had a good idea the area(s) [...]

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So it’s the day after my presentation on Flash Localization. I was quite happy with how things panned out, given I had been a presentation virgin prior to last night. The presentation didn’t hurt nearly as much as I was afraid of. At least it didn’t hurt me .
Thanks to AKQA for the venue, [...]

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As myself and Mike (flashgen.com) have mentioned previously we were heavily involved in Flash ‘way back in the day’. During the time we were cutting our teeth in flash’s infancy we were involved in some (IOHO) pretty slick projects. Now if you want those to be seen EVER again we need to get some release [...]

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It all started at university. Microsoft or MSN Australia I think it was, that was the first ‘flash’ movie I saw. And it changed everything I had seen on the web until then. Of course unlike everything else on the web at that time there was no way to see how they had done it. [...]

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Following on from Aral’s post regarding the amount of spam currently clogging the arteries of the Internet its nice to find a site that is doing something worthwhile with it all. The concept is to re-cycle Spam into computer generated Art. It also just happens to be a cool way of showing off some of [...]

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The London Flash User Group site has now been updated. I will be giving my first ever public flash presentation. My chosen specialist subject will be localisation techniques for flash. This is something I have been banging my head against for some time, and as a result like to think I may be able to [...]

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Previously I have mentioned concerns with regard to compatibility of Flash Player 9, ActionScript 3, Flex 2, and the recently released Flash 9 Preview. After digging around last night for information on how to get cracking on some Action Script 3 development I found this information on LiveDocs regarding the compatibility of the various flash [...]

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I’ve personally been using the XPathApi in flash for a little while. I don’t remember how I came across it initially, but I do know that I use it in almost every project I have worked on lately. However it has been bought to my attention by a colleague that not everyone has fallen across [...]

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I noted on this post at Mixmedia that others are having trouble loading Images with the ‘best’ quality in flash 8. For those unsure what this means, the ‘best’ quality setting provides anti aliasing to pretty much all objects in a flash movie, all the time regardless of frame rate loss. This includes Bitmaps. So [...]

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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 causes [...]

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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 inside [...]

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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 adding [...]

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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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Interesting discussion on Flash, Flex, RIA development and the freelance world

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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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