Tag Archives: actionscript

Flash Layout Engine in Reflex

By michael | Published: 28 Mar 2010

Link: Flash Layout Engine in Reflex A VERY SLICK demo of Reflex’s layout manager. Reflex is a lightweight ActionScript3 component framework and Flex-alternative, just announced this year.

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AS3 ApplicationDomain

By michael | Published: 1 Jul 2009

Link: AS3 ApplicationDomain ApplicationDomain insight for Flex/Flash application developers from Roger Gonzalez: ApplicationDomains are pretty much a neverending source of confusion and suffering, but they provide an interesting palette of class definition partitioning.

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maximum perspective

By michael | Published: 26 Mar 2008

rendererHeight = (height * (projector.focalLength – 1)) / ((Math.tan(projector.phi) / 2) + projector.focalLength);

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Flash Player Mac Woes: File Upload, Remoting, Port 80

By michael | Published: 6 Oct 2006

Symptom: Your Flash file uploads fail for Mac users. Cause: Flash Remoting and FileReference objects automatically append :80 to all requests (in the Mac player). Your web server redirects requests for example.com:80 to example.com. That’s bad. Solution: Stop redirecting explicit :80 requests. example.com:80 is a valid resource. Your sysadmin (or hosting provider) may insist otherwise, [...]

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