Monthly Archives: October 2003

Extending Flash MX 2004

I’ve been doing tech review for the upcoming Friends of ED title “Extending Flash MX 2004″ by Keith Peters and Todd Yard. This is definitely a book that you’ll want to have if you’re at all interested in extensibility features for Flash MX 2004: Commands, Timeline Effects, Tools, Behaviors, XML-to-UI, JSFL from the command line, read more »

Publish template for JavaScript solution

I’ve just finished a publish template for Flash to use with the “insertFlash” generic JavaScript solution for the upcoming IE changes. You can download the file here, simply drop it in the First Run/HTML folder of your Flash install directory and restart Flash. You can then specify the “IE Changes Workaround” publish template in the read more »

IE changes, what to do next?

I’m sure you’ve all heard and read a great deal about the changes that Microsoft will implement in its next browser release and the way in which it will influence the embedding of “Active Content” (Flash, Shockwave, Real, Windows Media, PDF, …). For those that didn’t, I’ll give you a quick runthrough of what exactly read more »

WebServiceConnector examples

Vera Fleischer has been working on some cool examples for using the WebServiceConnector component in Flash MX 2004 Pro (partly based on my earlier experiment with the fullasagoog webservice). If you’re interested to learn more about how to do use this component in combination with data binding and the UI components be sure to check read more »

Ultrashock Flash MX 2004 tutorials

Ultrashock has just launched its Flash MX 2004 tutorial series featuring no less than 8 in-depth articles by some leading Flash developers including Peter Hall, Dave Yang, Grant Skinner, … This is without doubt the most comprehensive guide to the new Flash MX 2004 features available on the web to date. Be sure to check read more »

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