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Even though the point of code obfuscation will always remain arguable, it may sometimes be a good idea to mess around a bit and make your ActionScript code harder to steal. The following review will highlight the features of SWF Protector, analyse the code and impact on SWF file size as well as performance. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the fact that M2 isn’t the final release of FDT 4 and even the feature sets of Pure, Pro and Enterprise versions are yet to be determined, it’s a solid Flash development tool already.

Even so one of the first issues to tackle with on a Mac is the FDT 4 Debugger throwing back Flash sandbox violation. Read the rest of this entry »

The following has already been listed as a feature request at Adobe Bug System and is only to illustrate the situation which is basically the lack of badly needed functionality in ActionScript 3.

The problem relates to flash.geom.PerspectiveProjection introduced with the load of native 3D in Flash 10. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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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Here are 2 prototypes that you can use to convert a regular ISO-formatted date into a Flash Date object and then, if necessary, to a regular European date format. Both for ActionScript 2. Read the rest of this entry »

Too many developers cut on error handling by providing a very raw framework that is incapable of handling exceptions. It looks like it’s saving a day but in a long run it’s probably going to cost badly.
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Ever thought of creating a teaser text of some longer string in Flash? For programmers still coding in ActionScript 2, here’s the piece of code to do it. Read the rest of this entry »

On Flash file uploads, instead of populating your session ID in URL, you might use a specific property of the FileReference class. Read the rest of this entry »