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Andrei over at Advanced Flash Components shot me an email to this post on their blog. They took the framework from the Reflect class I wrote and created a nice method of creating reflections within their framework. Check out the post and play with the vi
Following along the lines of my earlier post, AS3 OSX Leopard-like "Stacks" Class with Source, I decided to see what I could do with the Stacks class and AIR. You can see a really rough demo in the video below - press the fullscreen button to see what is
Its no secret that I have become quite the Apple fan. Given that, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of OS X Leopard. Leopard has a neat new feature called "Stacks" related to the dock. If you want to learn more about the new dock and stacks you
**UPDATE:Thanks to Robert Penner, Xtian, Jeremy, Val and Wayne for the testing. Jeremy got the answer: var smallMc:MovieClip = large_mc.getChildByName("small_mc") as MovieCliptrace("works " + smallMc); I know I have done that in the past but for some re
Many of you may have heard about it... You may have even seen it at the onAIR Bus Tour... Now Adobe has the AMP (Adobe Media Player) available on Adobe Labs for you all to play with. Jump over to the media player page on labs to get the install.Adobe s
It was my birthday recently and I somehow managed to talk my wife into going with me to the Apple store to pick up an iPod Touch. I have to say that I was tentative because of all of the screen problems that I had been reading about. Well, I have had my
I ran upon a pretty interesting piece on John Knack's blog today. It seems that Adobe has released a new logo for what they are calling the Photoshop family of products. This seemes to encompass Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop Lightroom
Well, today is the deadline for the Adobe AIR Derby contest. As a Flash developer I thought it would be cool to go back to my roots and develop and application using HTML and CSS. My app is iFreelance. It is a tool for me to keep track of clients, cont
My good friend Joe Kromer served as our camera man when the Adobe onAIR Bus Tour came to Pittsburgh. Joe put together a nice video for the members of the PittMFUG (Pittsburgh Flash Users Group) and was nice enough to share it. You can check out the vide
I am not sure how I missed this - the Flash industry is going nuts with this news... Ryan Stuart, some of you may know him from the onAIR Bus tour, has posted some info on what to expect from the updated Flash Player:Does the addition of H.264 mean Flas
