Tag Archives: Flash

Blue lego block of ambiguity

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Liam
Blue lego block of ambiguity

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 →

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FlashSize – simple browser resizing

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Liam

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 →

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Mind control

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Liam

Here's one of my old games being controlled with brainwaves in a homebrew EEG device cobbled together by Italian Hacker Mastro Gippo:

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Local playback security in FlashDevelop and Flash CS3 / CS4

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Liam

I've seen a few people get into a pickle over this one. When you're developing and testing locally, you need to set the 'Local Playback Security' setting (sometimes referred to as the 'use network services' option) depending on whether you … Continue reading →

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How to use ExternalInterface to integrate AS3 with JavaScript

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Liam

Here's a quick snippet of code for integrating your SWFs with JavaScript, using ExternalInterface: PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: import flash.external.ExternalInterface;   // Calling a JavaScript function from AS3 (with optional parameters) if (ExternalInterface.available) ExternalInterface.call("javascriptFunction", param1, param2);   // Implementing a JavaScript … Continue reading →

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