HTML embedding Flash, ExternalInterface, and display: none

Although this situation is very unlikely to happen, I actually came across one today (work requirement, by the way), so I decided to share my observation; hope it might help clear some fog somewhere: If a Flash file (.swf) is embedded into an HTML page then made hidden (i.e. its container div’s CSS attribute “display” […]

A quick look at YouTube API 2.0 – Retrieving data for a single video

Hi guys, As part of my project requirement, I have to fetch and parse videos from YouTube in a Flash website. The video player itself should be simple enough since we’ve got YouTube player (https://developers.google.com/youtube/flash_api_reference#Retrieving_video_information), but what about information such as view count, rating, etc.? The YouTube player certainly doesn’t display those statistics out of […]

Flash AS3: How to check if an XML object actually has contents

Okay guys, Many of you might have known this, but if you were me, there would be times when you actually forget how to do this properly (or I’m getting senile lol). Anyway, that’s why I decided to make a post about this so I myself can refer to it in times of need. Consider […]

SephPlayer, open-source Flash-based media player

Hi guys, After a long time burying myself in daily life’s mundane and hectic businesses, finally I’ve managed to blow some fresh wind into this old dusty corner of my sanctuary 🙂 The first news was that I managed to put up SephPlayer on googlecode as an open-source project. There’ll be more descriptions there for […]

Some information on Google Preview / Flash SEO

Hi Flashers, Out of the many useful information regarding ‘google preview’ feature on this page: https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-instant-previews#081 There is 1 interesting topic that might help us improve our Flash websites. Find this question: “Do Instant Previews support Flash, Silverlight, and/or Java applets?” The answer hints that google preview does support Flash. In fact, google has an […]

Some good news to Flash Developers

Been buried in my work for so long, haven’t got a chance to ‘go out of the cave’ and look around, into ‘civilization’, until today (Halloween’s eve 2011 :p), when I came across such beautiful news: 1. StageVideo will soon officially support Camera signal, followed by native methods to get frame BitmapData; also a new […]

Just some minor tips using Flash Builder for newbies

Sometimes when you “Run” a project in FB, a dialog box appears telling you that “your FlashPlayer version is not updated…..”, usually the first line of this message will tell you exactly where this “FlashPlayer” is located. Notice that this differs, probably, among different versions of FB, or different project settings – this, I don’t […]

TextFieldLink – AS3

Hey guys! Finally I decided to make this blog a place to share the lil’ goodies I come across or make myself during my work 🙂 Hopefully it’ll also help you in yours too! Today’s special is something called “TextFieldLink“. As the name implies, it is a subclass of flash.text.TextField (and thus inheriting all properties […]

AS3 Camera experience

If you refer to a cam as Camera.getCamera(), and attach it to a Video object, make it listen to ACTIVITY event, then detach the cam from the Video object, this cam object will NEVER dispatch ACTIVITY event again! You just have to get a new Camera object, and listens to the event again. Remember this!

Greensock Tweening Platform experience

The TweenMax, after applying “blurFilter” on a DisplayObject, even at blurX = 0 and blurY = 0, will leave the DisplayObject unclickable. This is probably a feature, probably a bug, I’m not sure. What I know is, even if we register an “onComplete” function to the blurFilter tween itself, in which we explicitly call “DisplayObject.filters […]