August 2010
4 posts
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Moving Library Assets from FLA to FLA with JSFL
One of my latest projects had me scratching my head while I was doing my R&D. The project was to build a Flash panel that could pull assets in from another FLA that acts as a library. My first thought was to see if there was any way to copy items directly out of the library and add or paste them into the current working FLA. In my research this just isn’t possible, but I was still able...
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Flash CS5 Font Embedding in AS3
Just wanted to link up a really helpful blog post for migrating to how Flash CS5 does Font embedding. You can no longer use the [Embed] tag to accomplish this in your classes.
Aaron L’Heureux has written a great post showing exactly how to migrate over to the new system! Flash CS5 font embedding – it’s totally different…
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Another Flash CS5 Custom Component Quirk
In my attempt to make my custom components compatible with Flash CS5 from CS4, I found that my Inspectable parameters that were Objects were not working, and in fact would cause all parameters that come after it to not work.
Before I continue on with the main topic here, I just want to note that regardless of what order you define your Inspectable parameters, Flash reads them in Alphabetically...
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Inspectable Parameters Not Showing Up on Custom...
So I just upgraded to Flash CS5 this week at work and I found a really finicky problem that does not seem to be documented anywhere. I build a lot of custom components for my job, and if you’ve ever done it you know that building custom components for Flash is a little like an Indiana Jones adventure - you get beaten up a bit, there’s some problem solving, and a whole lot of...