Hi I'm Fraser, a Senior Developer at Lean Mean Fighting Machine specialising in Actionscript but looking into a range of technologies.
email: me@fraserhobbs.com
I recently worked on a video player in Flash for a predominantly HTML/JavaScript site, which involved having to do a lot of communication between ActionScript and JavaScript. This turned out to not be as straight forward as I had hoped, so I created a set of JavaScript and ActionScript code to wrap up the nasty bits and make it as simple as possible.
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Posted in AS3, Browser, Flash, Javascript, Utility on 29 November 2010
It’s now easy to dynamically embed fonts loaded from a swf using Denis Kolyako’s getDefinitionNames class. This combined with external styleSheets is a great solution for multilingual projects which require different fonts to be used for different languages.
I am by no means an expert at developing for Facebook, and to be honest neither would I want to be. What little I have done on the Facebook platform, I’ve found myself getting frustrated with the confusing, out-of-date and often half-baked documentation.
At last it seems like Facebook might be getting their acts together and the Graph API looks impressive and simple to use.
Bitwise shifting can be useful in AS3 as it can give some quite significant performance gains. It isn’t actually as complicated as you think and the name explains exactly what’s going on.
Posted in AS3, Flash, Performance on 18 May 2010