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Flash Player 11, AIR 3, and Flex/Flash Builder 4.6

155 days

by admin in Tech stuff

Wauw! A lot of great news for Adobe devs today :O)

Adobe are officially announcing Flash Player 11, AIR 3, and Flex 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6. They are going to be release sometime in October – MAX anyone?

This is one of the biggest updates of the flash player platform. Introducing GPU accelerated 3d content, with the same performance as native games/apps.
Mobile content with Air 3 is going to rock.

I can’t wait to get my hands dirty!

More her:
Flash Player 11, AIR 3
Flex 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6

AIR 2.7 now available for desktop, Android, iOS and Blackberry Tablet OS.

253 days

by admin in Tech stuff

Adobe Air 2.7 has been released.

This update, improves performance up to 4X!!!

With this release it is now possible to use flex as the main framework for developing apps across devices and os’s.

Check it out!

More here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air.html

“Molehill” 3D APIs for Flash Player and AIR live on adobe labs

359 days

by admin in Tech stuff

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/incubator/

Test the newest stuff in the long awaited flash player 11 3d api.

This is really gonna be a gamechanger in the online game world!!

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is live!

379 days

by admin in Tech stuff

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Flash Player 10.2 enables the new Stage Video for high performance video playback using the gpu to render.
There is also native mouse cursors, that has huge performance enhancements.
Also there are some performance optimizations with IE9 leveraging the gpu capabilities there.
Last but not least there are text quality improvements on mobile.

Sweet!

JQuery updated to 1.5 with lots of fixes and new stuff

381 days

by admin in HTML 5, Javascript, Tech stuff

JQuery has been updated to 1.5 with lots of fixes and new stuff.

http://jquery.com/

“This release saw 83 fixed bugs and a total of 460 closed tickets.”

The devs doing this are really helping make the web a better place.
As always JQuery works with all major browsers and versions.

They even got some performance improvements into it as well.

Awesome work guys!

Quick hack to get all elements in a flex 4 spark container

400 days

by admin in Tech stuff

If you ever need to get an array of the elements in a flex 4 (spark) container you usually need to loop through it, using the numElements value for the container.

However this little “hack” retieves the internal array of elements:

“container” is the id of the spark container.

container.mx_internal::getMXMLContent();

Grant skinner released EaselJS v0.2 HTML5 Canvas

412 days

by admin in ActionScript 3D, HTML 5, Javascript, Tech stuff

Grant skinner has released a new version of his html 5 canvas JS library.
Using The library is much like programming AS3, using the same name convention as the “drawing api” so there are DisplayObject, Graphics, Shape. U put stuff on “stage” by using addChild and removing with removeChild. Very similar to as3, making js programming to html5 canvas very easy for a as3 developer.

Very promising project.

Blogpost here.
See more here. http://easeljs.com/

Flash Player 10.2 beta released

448 days

by admin in Tech stuff

From Adobe Labs:

We’re happy to announce a beta release of Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux is now available for download on Adobe Labs. Flash Player 10.2 beta introduces a number of enhancements we’re excited to share, including Stage Video, a new API that delivers best-in-class, high performance video playback across platforms. The new beta also includes Internet Explorer 9 hardware acceleration support previewed earlier (in Flash Player “Square”), enhanced text rendering, and two popular requests from the community: a native custom mouse cursors API and support for full screen playback with multiple monitors.

Read more at: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/11/flash-player-10-2-beta.html

Facebook profile picture with flash

561 days

by admin in Tech stuff

If you’re having problems getting profile pictures from facebook into your flash/flex application, this might help.
…..
loader = new Loader();
context = new LoaderContext(true);
…..
And now the important part:
context.securityDomain = SecurityDomain.currentDomain;
…..
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, onloaded );
loader.load( new URLRequest( filename ), context);
…..

Anyways this might help you.

I spent quite some time figureing it out ;o)

Cheers!

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