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LogWatcher is the kind of open-source Eclipse plugin that enables hooking a view of a certain log file to the Eclipse IDE. It comes in handy for open-source AXDT Flash development plugin of Eclipse that currently (at version 0.0.7.1) doesn’t have a built-in debugger and is yet to receive it in milestone 0.1.0. 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 »

Throughout Mac’s history, Adobe-based creatives have formed a considerable bunch of Apple’s clientele. Most of them can also be referred to as macheads who have been loyal customers and brought along new crowd. Now, in the light of recent news in regard to iDevice and the new Developer Agreement, Adobe community has been locked out of these devices. Action is required. 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 »

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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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 »

Flashbit piloted with Flash SEO package for its backbone Flash content management system in July 2008 for the project of Boutique Caprice, a jewellery boutique in downtown Tallinn, Estonia. Up to date it has proven effective as illustrated by Google indexing and rapidly increasing PageRank. Read the rest of this entry »

Confirmed by the latest press release from Adobe, the software giant aims to resolve the SEO issue for dynamic Flash sites and Rich Internet Applications in collaboration with search industry leaders, Google and Yahoo. Read the rest of this entry »

Font management in Flash has never been worth a wow but in CS3 Adobe has forgotten proper font embedding at all. Read the rest of this entry »