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Category Archives: ActionScript 2
Logging in ActionScript 3
Logging is a fundamental part of any mid to large scale application, your application needs to be able to talk to other developers and Q&A engineers to help diagnose problems and gain insight into what’s going on under the hood. … Continue reading
Automatically Generating a Maven POM file with ANT
This one tripped me up for a while and doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the Maven ANT Tasks Documentation. I was working on a build process which makes use of Maven soley for deploying and versioning releases and ANT … Continue reading
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Flash on the Beach 2008 – Tuesday Write Up
I went down to the Flash on the Beach 08 conference yesterday, here’s some of the notes that I wrote up on the train back: Creating The Next Generation Happy Meal Toy Julain Dolce Julian is lead Developer for Fuel … Continue reading
Typesafe Enums in ActionScript 2
Typesafe Enums are perfect when you want to get the message across loud and clear, with no room for error. The classic use for an Enum is handling events, to give some context I’ll demonstrate how you could handle events … Continue reading
CNET TV Videos
I’ve recently been slaving away on Version 4 of the CNET Video Player. Today is the official launch of the new player and it would appear everything has gone smoothly. The player features numerous enhancements over the previous version including … Continue reading
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Actionscript – Loading Acute and UTF-8 Characters from XML into Dynamic Text with Flash
Writing flexible applications in Flash is easy, (/me points in the direction of my XML Configuration Class) and there’s few reasons why all your text strings should not be read in at run time to allow for easy internationalization. However, … Continue reading
ActionScript 2.0 Configuration Class
This is an update to my original Actionscript 2.0 Configuration Class which I wrote back in February. It features a new access method for reading and writing values and allows you to load in external XML configuration documents with an … Continue reading
Flare – Actionscript 2.0 SWF Decompiler
Flare is a free (as in beer) Actionscript 2.0 decompiler with GUI clients for Windows and Mac (and CLI for Windows, Mac and Linux). I just had a quick play with it to examine a 3rd party component (swc file) … Continue reading
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Actionscript 2.0 Configuration Class (read/write)
@Update – Please note that this post is considered deprecated – please refer to: http://www.jonnyreeves.co.uk/2008/06/actionscript-20-configuration-class/ I like all of my apps to be as flexible as possible; as a result I tend to make nearly every aspect configurable. There are … Continue reading
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Using XSPF for Video Playlists.
I am working to implement the XSPF Playlist standard for CNET Networks UK Video Players (with the hope that it could one day move to other countries). XSPF describes itself as being an XML based playlist format for digital media … Continue reading