http://www.spikything.com/blog part designer. part developer. all creative Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:41:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/07/how-to-embed-an-entire-asset-swf-and-get-symbols-from-it/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/07/how-to-embed-an-entire-asset-swf-and-get-symbols-from-it/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:58:27 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=306 The problem: You want to embed an entire SWF, full of assets, into a class and retrieve individual symbols from it – but you don’t want to have to embed each asset individually. The solution: SWFAsset – a couple of … Continue reading →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/07/how-to-embed-an-entire-asset-swf-and-get-symbols-from-it/feed/ 3 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/25/blue-lego-block-of-ambiguity/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/25/blue-lego-block-of-ambiguity/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:17:30 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=295 At the risk of getting sucked into the Apple vs Adobe shitstorm, my own response to Apple chosing to block Flash content from their mobile devices is to at least tell users why – because Apple left it at the … Continue reading →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/25/blue-lego-block-of-ambiguity/feed/ 0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/22/how-to-correct-3-d-projection-on-stage-resize/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/22/how-to-correct-3-d-projection-on-stage-resize/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:54:53 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=283 The problem: You're using Flash 10's native 3-D API and notice the projection goes a little skewiff when resizing the window. The solution: You need to reset the stage's projection centre on stage resize, like so... PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: var … Continue reading →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/22/how-to-correct-3-d-projection-on-stage-resize/feed/ 0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/04/migrating-to-flex-sdk-4/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/04/migrating-to-flex-sdk-4/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:42:14 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=266 In moving to compiling projects with the new Flex SDK 4, in noticed a couple of gotchas to do with the EMBED metatag that I thought I'd better share: Runtime shared libraries If you're like me and want to embed … Continue reading →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/04/migrating-to-flex-sdk-4/feed/ 0 http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/02/flashsize-simple-browser-resizing/ http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/02/flashsize-simple-browser-resizing/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:20:45 +0000 Liam http://www.spikything.com/blog/?p=254 How to allow SWFs to display at 100% width/height in your browser - but enforce a minimum width and height, in case of a smaller browser window size than you've designed for. Until recently, I'd used other Flash/browser resize managers … Continue reading →]]> http://www.spikything.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/02/flashsize-simple-browser-resizing/feed/ 0