I’ve been playing around with some strange ActionScript behaviour I discovered a while back. In search for the ultimate “infinite loop” I had a SWF load itself into a level and what do you know, with a little bit of tweaking we’ve created ourselves a new level. I only tested it on Flash MX for read more
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Drivers license
Finally got my drivers license today! Not that I drive all that much (though that’s likely because I didn’t have a license up to now). Now if I could only tear myself away from my computer long enough :)
DENG for non-commercial use
Claus Wahlers has just announced that as of today DENG is free for non-commercial use. If that isn’t great news! If you’re wondering what DENG is, think of a Flash component that parses and renders XHTML, XFORMS, SVG, XFRAMES and last but not least CSS versions 2 and 3 even more conform to the W3C read more
AMF-PHP multiple method calls
If you’re working with Flash Remoting using AMF-PHP you might have encountered some problems in the latest release with doing multiple method calls. I’ve been browsing the mailinglist and came across a solution by Justin Watkins that fixes this problem. You can download an updated version of “Executive.php” and use that to replace the old read more
Using the Databinding API
If you’ve been working with databinding in the Flash IDE I’m sure you’ve come across (or at least read about) the problems with cutting and pasting components or moving them inside a movieclip. Doing any of those things simply make all your bindings evaporate into thin air (cool huh!). True believers will tell you: “it’s read more
ActionScript v2 for SciTE|Flash
I’m a bit late in blogging about this but Arul Kumaran has made an updated syntax file available for my favourite ActionScript editor: SciTE|Flash. I recently started reworking some of my old code to ActionScript v2 classes and the syntax highlighting came in very handy indeed, thanks Arul!