I just wanted to post about this so I don’t forget.  I noticed that every time I opened a swf created using the Flex4 SDK, I would get a bunch of errors:

Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///C:/home/projects/blah/textLayout_1.1.0.604.swf (more…)

I was checking out some of the features on the Flash Builder plug-in SourceMate. Many of the features already exist in FDT (no surprise). But SourceMate takes some of those features and does it a little better. And then there are some features in SourceMate which would be an awesome addition to FDT.  I am curious (more…)

I’ve checked out Alcon before, but I’ve always been hesitant to use debugging tools which require you to use something other than trace.  That is why I’ve always loved using SOSMax.  Lately I have been working with Smartfox Server and it tends to spit out some funky xml traces when you have debug set to true on the SmartFoxClient.  This unfortunately breaks SOSMax.  So I ran across Alcon again today and (more…)

So I wanted to delve into the world of making an AIR application.  From what I have heard, it’s almost as easy as making a Flex application.  But getting things set up wasn’t as easy as I had hoped.  I spent quite some time searching around the internets trying to find answers to many problems I had.  Fortunately (more…)

I had answered a forum post recently about a custom event template.  It made me remember that I should use this since every time I create a custom class I always have to add the clone method and then add the event type constant(s).  This template will take care of all that very easily.  You can get the Event Template here.

As I am working on a project for a client, I ran into this issue with some of the Flash animations that were provided to me by the client.  When I run the animation, it is not visible and I get the warning:

Warning: Filter will not render. The DisplayObject’s filtered dimensions (10173045, 5890430) are too large to be drawn.

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Many of the projects I work on require a ton of embedded images.  I will have dozens if not hundreds of images that  need to be embedded.  It’s a pain to write out all those embed tags and properties.  Even if you copy and paste other embeds or if you use a code snippet/template, it’s a very tedious process.  So I wrote up a jsfl script which (more…)

I’ve been using SOSMax for a long time.  It is simple, easy to use, and does what I need it to do.  But I ran across a blog on about FlashBug and I was immediately interested when he mentions that he lurvs SOSMax.  So after checking out FlashBug, I think I am going to start using it for debugging.  It has some neat features.  I like that (more…)

I have been using the new 3D features of Flash 10 in a few projects recently.  It’s been working great until I needed click on some of those object with 3D transformations on them.  I had a bit of a hard time finding (more…)

I have recently started using an nifty utility called Flex Formatter.  I saw a blog post about it on Grant Skinner’s blog.  I was initially skeptical that it wouldn’t to much more than what the formatter in FDT is capable of.  I was wrong.  It does a lot more than the FDT formatter.  Unfortunately (more…)