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This little ActionScript 3 snippet will convert the system font to a SWF font instance that you can use in your AS3 project. Read the rest of this entry »

Having Adobe CS4 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard both installed is very likely to mess up Quick Look of Flash ActionScript (.as) and Flex (.mxml) files. Most inconvenient for those used to browsing through the files and looking into them by just hitting the Space key. Read the rest of this entry »

Every new version of ActionScript has had its impact on the compiler and error handling. Since ActionScript 1, that had loose typing and was suited well for small-scale scripting projects, things have changed considerably. Read the rest of this entry »

Since Flash CS5 was announced last year, community has became passionate about pretty much everything Adobe has to say, recently in regard to dumped CS5 beta and the new Flash Player 10.1. Some sceptics even go as far as suggesting dumping the ActionScript codebase in favour of JavaScript over speed, an absurd idea.
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Importing graphics from Adobe Illustrator to Flash is a nightmare when it comes to precision graphics. Incredibly enough, an utterly fine graphic in Illustrator may turn up all shoddy in Flash. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe announced 2 great releases today: Adobe AIR 2 beta and Flash Player 10.1 prerelease, both aiming high with Flash Player 10.1 being the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project and AIR 2 offering a significant performance boost with compelling features.

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By the latest Coding Convention of ActionScript 3, the usage of the Array constructor is only encouraged for size allocation, e.g. var myArr:Array = new Array(2); for an array with 2 elements in it. In all other cases literals should be used, e.g. var myArr:Array = [];

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Paul Neave, London-based interactive designer, has launched a truly great Flash website to put his ventures on display. Very nice minimalist design, easy to use and functional.

Paul Neave has been on Flash for over 10 years both with Neave.com and for design agencies in Manchester and London. Visit Neave.com.

If you run English Flash CS4 on a non-English system you might have noticed that Flash components installed with Adobe Extension Manager don’t turn up in Components panel anymore. It’s another bug vs feature situation by Adobe. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the success of the Flash SEO package for backbone CMS, that piloted for Boutique Caprice in July, Baltic Watch Ltd, the Baltic wholesaler of quality watches, has obtained the package to improve the ranking of www.balticwatch.ee even further. Read the rest of this entry »