Been meaning to post this for awhile. I’ve had my iPad for about 1 month, and it’s great! It does 2 things, really, really well: 1. watching TV. The screen looks great watching iTunes downloads, streaming NetFlix and ABC shows. Bright and sharp. MUCH better than the dedicated portable DVD players I was using just [...]
Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
I Love My iPad…but…but…no Flash is terrrible!
October 22, 2010
ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 weirdness – getBounds()
January 22, 2010
In AS2, we can use the movieclip method getBounds returns 4 values: xMin, xMax, yMin and yMax, which can be traced like so: var bounds:Object = this.getBounds(this._parent); for (var i in bounds) { trace(i+” –> “+bounds[i]); } I’m getting the dimensions of the movieclip my current clip (this) is attached to. The trace reveals: yMax [...]
Ugly Flash bug – using linkage property breaks imported MovieClips
January 21, 2010
Man this one was nasty! The artist I work with was supplying me with fla files containing MovieClips. I’d copy and paste his MCs from his fla into my main fla. Up till this week there was no problem doing this. All of a sudden, I was no longer able to programtically use his MCs! [...]
Tiger Parking Slam – new casual game for AddictingGames.com
December 11, 2009
Launched another new game for AddictingGames.com this week, the Tiger Parking Slam. Over 700,000 hits so far, not bad for a game we put together in 3 days… [swfobj src="http://www.meisler.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ParkingTiger_19.swf" alt="The Tiger Parking Slam game developed for AddictingGames.com" width="400" height="300" align="center" allowfullscreen="true"]
Droid vs. iPhone part 5 – Final Results! Droid wins! (For me, anyway)
November 16, 2009
Summary: Both the Droid and the iPhone are excellent portable internet devices/mini-computers, but I give the edge to the Droid because of the better network. Droid is a much better phone, but not as good a media player. So it depends on your needs – if, like me, you’re more concerned with the phone and [...]
The State of Flash – SofTech Lecture
October 29, 2009
I gave a lecture last night (Oct. 28) on the current state of Flash – what’s happening with CS4 (inverse kinematics, motion editor), CS5 (iPhone porting), Flex/Flash Builder, FlashLite, etc. I’ve made a pdf of my powerpoint slides available. (If link not working due to WordPress weirdness, just try: ftp.evili.com/WhatIsFlash.pdf)
Flash CS4 – Timeline with missing frames
September 29, 2009
Man, I just about lost my mind (and at least an hour of my life) figuring this one out. All I could see on my timeline panel was the layer numbers, and the new folder, new layer and garbage can icons. At the far right side of the panel, at the bottom, are three gray [...]
Silverlight 3 is here
July 16, 2009
Looks like they’ve added a lot of features that bring it up to speed vs. Flash/Flex, including HD video, new bitmap and 3D APIs, and support for SEO (which looks to be about the same as swfObject) x-platform desktop RIAs. Big upside potential IMHO is that you can code Silverlight in C#. Big downside – [...]
Flash plug-in on the way for iPhone?
July 6, 2007
According to Walt Mossberg: “At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will [...]