I’ve seen a lot of people asking about this problem and I’ve seen various solutions. As it seems to be fairly common, I thought I’d share my solution too. The Problem The problem arises when you create an ArrayCollection from some data, and it only has one item. For some reason this is not classified [...]
Man, has it been a long time between drinks. The last post I made to this site was in November 2009. That’s right: two thousand and nine. At the rate I’m going, I almost need one of these for my next post. So, I sat down with my accountant last week and we went through [...]
Just a quick note – the source files from my talk at tonight’s Adobe Usergroup SA meeting can be downloaded here. You can download the Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder betas at labs.adobe.com (as well as a lot of other great stuff). Anyway questions – let me know in the comments. Enjoy! Jassa
So the other day a friend of mine asked me if I’d ever needed to set an FLVPlayback component to start with the volume muted (and the mute icon set to muted). I hadn’t, but I got thinking about it and after a little research found the easiest way to go about it is to [...]
The April issue of Flash & Flex Developers Magazine is out and it’s well worth a read. This issue is packed with loads of good tutorials (connecting to your Wii from Flash, OOP in AS3 etc), reviews (numerous books and software) and an interview with Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow. Oh and buried in there [...]
A fair bit has been happening of late, which is a lame excuse for not updating this blog but it’s an excuse none the less. On Friday 13, I left the good people at Via Media to pursue a freelance career in Flash/Flex Development. I’ve been working at Via Media since it’s inception in mid [...]
***UPDATE*** This project has stopped working as it is part of a developers account – not commercial. *** I’ve been a bit lazy on the blogging side of things so I thought I’d kick off 2009 with a new post. I spent a few hours with the Ribbit API over the xmas break and I’ve [...]
Just a quick note – I’ve got an article coming out in the next issue of Flex & Flash Developers Magazine (which I believe will be out in December). The article is titled Getting Started with Google Maps in Flash is centred around using the GoogleMaps API from the Flash IDE. The lineup for the [...]
I’ve finally found some time to spend on my ImageTip class (a class that adds tooltip style images to words in an AS3 TextField). Check out the demo here. At this stage you can setup imagetips with either a set image source (url), or a comma separated tag list that will pull the most recent [...]
After playing around with calling AS3 functions from a html TextField in Flash I’ve decided to create an image tooltip class. As you can see from this basic example you just need to put the word you want to add the tooltip to in a custom ‘imagetip’ tag, and then set some attributes. In the [...]