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Flash Video Tip 2: Syncing a FLV between two SWFs

Here’s the next flash video tip: It’s about how to synchronize a flv file between two separate swf files. First question is: Why would you want to do this? Honestly I can’t think of too many cases where you would do this but there’s one case where it can be appropriate (and coincidentally it has […]

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Flash Video Tip 1: Calculating an optimal buffer size

Sorry for not posting much the last weeks/months… This article is the start of a few tips about flash video and deals with calculating the buffer size for a flv video. If you want to display a flash video file you have primarily three options: Ignore the user’s bandwidth and just display the version you […]

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New WM Team website

The german Flash agency WM Team from Hannover have launched their brand new website on 1st December. One gets really impressed by the affinity for lovely small details on every single page. Make sure to watch the kick-ass intro where the guys from WM Team present their new claim »Showtime for your brand«. So do […]

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Voodoo IO: Connecting flash to hardware devices

Finally we have time to blog about this (being officially on holiday since a week :). A few weeks ago we were invited by Wolfgang Spießl, a friend of mine and student of media informatics at LMU, to take an active part in a user study. Wolfgang and Nicolas Villar, main developer of Voodoo IO […]

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FlashPlayerTrust: Some flash security notes

If you never delved into flash security stuff, this might interest you: Probably you know that since Flash 8 you can choose between “local access” and “network access” in the publish settings, i.e. your exported flash movie can access either local data or remote data. If your local flash movie loads both a local xml […]

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Superb penalty shootout flash game

This is one of the coolest flash games I’ve seen so far: Boooming It’s a penalty shootout game which is controlled via telephone and your voice – the louder you scream “booooom” the stronger your shot. It’s all presented in a very cool flash interface (shots are analyzed, integration of flash video etc.) – must […]

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Download: AS 2.0 star rating class

Just wanted to quickly post an as 2.0 class. It’s a rating component which can display any number of customizable labels and rating items. In the example below I’ve used the common stars as rating items but you could use any other graphics (just go into the fla, modify the ObjectRaterItem symbol and put in […]

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Overriding getter/setter methods in AS 2.0

Maybe I’ve missed something but I’m sure someone can explain this one: Create a AS 2.0 class in flash which extends MovieClip, link it to a library symbol, create two frames in the MovieClip (“up” and “disabled”) and try to override the MovieClip.enabled getter/setter.

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Eclipse/FDT shortcut sheet

After reading Xavi Beumala’s great article Optimizing Your Workflow with Eclipse and FDT at actionscript.com I quickly put together a sheet containing all the shortcuts mentioned in the article. There are mentioned a few very useful shortcuts I didn’t know and I thought it could be useful to have the most important ones on a […]

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Killer Combination: AMFPHP, Propel and Creole

Have you ever made a database driven (flash) application which made use of lots of sql queries? Then this might interest you. Imagine instead of writing long and complicated sql statements for getting and setting data in your database you could use a simple object oriented syntax. This technique is well-known under the name of […]

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