AIR 2.0 beta is available publicly and when I was asked by Adobe’s marketing team, as well as Apress editor to post some recipes for Flex and AIR in the Adobe Developer connection Cookbooks I decided to combine the two. Adobe are looking to have the Cookbooks gain momentum & I decided to lend a hand and released 10 recipes with applications I built with the new AIR 2.0 APIs while I was part of the Beta program. I revised the applications and they are running correctly on the latest built of AIR available for the pre-release users…
Over the past year or so, I have been responsible for developing and maintaining a JavaScript Slideshow component for our internal CMS. With the similarities between JavaScript and Actionscript, I have wanted to implement this slideshow in a manner consistent with the flexibility and usage of the JavaScript version. The biggest difference is that the [...]
ExternalInterface is the API in the Flash Player that allows you to send data into an embedded SWF once it’s running in a web page. It also allows you to call functions in your web page from an embedded SWF.
There are 3 main players: the DOM (Document Object Model), the…
In my previous collision detection post (in what I expect will become a series), I talked about predicting whether two objects would collide in between frames. This is to avoid the situation where the objects are moving so fast that they pass through each other before you’ve had a chance to see if they’re overlapping. This is often known as a sweep test (amongst other things!)
And I showed how you could predict collisions between a 2D circle and a vertical line but what about lines that aren’t vertical? How do you work out collisions between circles and lines of any angle?
Here is where vector maths comes in, so if you haven’t looked at it since school, here’s a great article that will tell you the basics (based around Processing but you’ll get the jist)…
Introduction
RobotLegsPong attempts to combine RobotLegs application framework with the as3signals event model and a Frame-Ticker (as well as a pinch of ASUnit unit-testing) to create a ‘game’.
It is an open-source project, available on GitHub as an example of using RobotLegs together with these other technologies.
Source Code: github/alecmce/RobotLegsPong
RobotLegsPong is not a very good game; it is playable only in the loosest sense. Bats require to be dragged in order to move (and there is no computer-logic to play against), so you could not really play against an opponent…
Jason Crist posted a thought provoking request for his upcoming presentation comparing Robotlegs and Swiz. He’s got a clever knack for stirring the framework ant pile and getting developers eyes off their IDEs long enough to discuss their passions. In this case the developers include Ben Clinkinbeard, Shaun Smith, Jesse Warden and myself.
These conversations are always good natured. While we work on (or use) “competing” frameworks there is always a sense of mutual respect. We like our tools but have obvious inclinations towards the projects that we’ve invested our hearts and souls into…
A few weeks ago I started a personal project that needed to send binary data to a text (not binary) receiver. This couldn’t be done without encoding the binary data in a format accepted by the receiver. There is a few well know encoder: Base64, yEnc, etc.
Base64 can have a 30% size overhead (compare to yEnc) but it’s fast and easy to use. I chose Base64.
While searching the net for some Base64 lib in as3, I found the class inside the as3Crypto package, and one from the PHPRPC protocol.
So I started with those lib…
Welcome to The Flash Art Of War, my blog on Flash development. My name is Jesse Freeman and I have been an interactive designer/developer for over 10 years. I am the Lead Flash Developer at 
