In case you never used the Sound class before, let me give you a brief introduction. The Sound class is found in the flash.media package and is used (hard not to be obvious here) for playing sounds. The constructor for the Sound class has 2 optional parameters: stream:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“url:String“); context:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(“buffertime:Number” [...]
multimediacollege records video tutorials for AdobePulse website
Hi everyone, Some time ago I was asked by the Belgian Adobe Office to do a couple of video tutorials on the new Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 features. Naturally, I felt honored to be asked to do this, so I gladly complied and headed out to the Amsterdam office to record them. And [...]
Upgrade your Adobe Connect User Experience – Saving bandwidth
Adobe Connect is a compelling platform for hosting and attending online meetings, trainings, virtual trainingrooms and much more; and the cool thing it’s Flash based. Some tips and tricks to help upgrade the user experience – without having to look for a network engineer! The more bandwidth, the better for each attendee and the presenter. [...]
Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 released
Adobe has released a new version for their 2 runtimes, Flash Player and AIR. Naturally, with those releases come new and improved features as well. Let’s take a look at what makes it worth to upgrade to the next version. Let’s start with the new Flash Player. You can download it here and it’s finally [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, Flex /
Tags: AIR 2, Dynamic streaming, Flash Player, global error handling, Microphone
CFUGBE event aftermath – Meet the ColdFusion team
On May 26th we held our second ColdFusion User Group event in Belgium. This time we had the nice apportunity to have some international speakers come over, because they were in the area after all after being at SOTR2010. We started off with Ben Nadel who talked about session management and component lifecycles in ColdFusion. [...]
Category: ColdFusion, Coldfusion Builder, Conference /
Tags: Alison Huselid, Ben Nadel, CFUG, ColdFusion, Ray Camden
3D rotation at runtime with 2 lines of code
In the weeks before my workshop at Multi-mania (getting up to speed with native 3D) I spend a lot of time experimenting with some new api’s. One thing that I kinda needed from the start is a decent rotation class to rotate an object in 3D (at runtime). So I set off and create 2 [...]
FATC – AIR 2.0 workshop review
OK, so now we’re done with the AIR 2.0 workshop here. Things were really looking good and we had some great questions and responses from the audience. Let me make a small summary of what we covered. Peter Elst was up first and he talked about the basic stuff in AIR. Since the audience was [...]
optimizing the floodFill() method
If you ever used the floodFill() method that is provided in the AS3 BitmapData class, you know that it doesn’t always act like it’s supposed to. For those of you unfamiliar with it, the The floodFill() method is similar to the paint bucket tool in various paint programs. The signature of the method looks like [...]
Solving the “missing AIR application XML file” error in Flash Builder
When creating an AIR project, you automatically get an XML configuration file for your application, which contains the initial width and height, the available icons and the indication whether or not the application uses a custom chrome (amongst other settings). This XML file has the same name as the application itself, followed by “-app.xml”. OK, [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash Builder /
Tags: AIR, app.xml, application, code-behind, Flash Builder
