It occurs to me that too many people are not aware of the Flash 8 new and shiny ExternalInterface and are still using fscommand and setVariable or getURL for flash-javascript communication. In this post I’ll describe the advantages of ExternalInterface over the previous solutions, how to use it, a »
I’ve stumbled across an interesting error today: Using the Object.watch can result in a crush of the Flash 7.0 / 7.2 IDE, the Flash 7 stand alone player, and the browser. Apparently this will happen when trying to delete all the properties of an object after one »
DeCompilers software makers excuse their doing by saying: “if you’ll ever lose your fla ….” Yeah right, the people who used it to retrieve their lost fla can be counted on one hand. I bat you were wondering what will be the future of these decompilers under the new AS3 »
I was ranting about the Flash inteval inaccuracy in some older post. Finaly, there is an article by Tinic Uro that clarifies why intervals and frame rates accuracy in the flash player is so nasty. The article »
I was amazed by the inaccuracy of intervals in flash. At least on my system a 1000 millisecond is about 1056 milliseconds. I’m using flash player 8.5 alpha 3 and the swf was compiled with flash 7. On some other systems I’ve checked this the 1000 ms »