Adobe MAX 2010 is less than 2 months away and while I'm in full preparation for my lab sessions I though I'd give a small teaser about what you can expect from it. The lab I'm doing is going to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe some of you have heard about "Slider", a spin-off of the Flex framework which should be optimised to be used on mobile devices. It was announced for the first time at the end of last year. However, yesterday Adobe announced that Slider will be dropped, because of the rapidly ...

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 ...

After Flex 4 and Flash Builder having been released last month, we are working hard to get the first Flex 4 trainings organised very soon. It is going to be a 4-day course which will guide you through the basics of Flex 4, so you can get cracking at your ...

Yes! This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for so long. After a long series of beta and prerelease versions, the new Flex 4 SDK has been officially released. And of course, this release is also accompanied with the release of Flash Builder 4. This is the new version ...

Everyone knows by now that variable binding is something that is constantly used in Flex and AIR applications. The simplest way of using this feature is making use of the [Bindable] metadata tag. However, there’s a second way that is commonly used and that is the <mx:Binding> tag. This one ...

Imagine a situation where you have a Flex application and you need to display a popup window in which an external application is doing something else with the same data. You don’ have control over the external application, but you know it is written in HTML and PHP. Imagine also ...

Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn't find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that ...