Category Archives: Adobe AIR

Help fix Flash’s visible dimensions

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Will

Colin Moock, author of the excellent book Essential Actionscript 3.0 has written an interesting blog post regarding an issue which Flash (still) has with finding the visible dimensions of a DisplayObject. The key word there being “visible” as the way … Continue reading →

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30+ Great AIR Apps

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Will

Came across a nice round up of some of the better AIR apps available for designers and developers over at Mashable. I find it great to look at what other developers are churning out for the AIR runtime. I’m hoping … Continue reading →

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Distort an image in Flash 10 with DrawTriangles

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Will

One of the coolest features to come out of Flash Player 10′s new 3D capabilities is an addition to the Graphics class, the DrawTriangles method. Most Flash designers discover early on that distorting a DisplayObject is impossible through the Flash … Continue reading →

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Sending data with LocalConnection in Flash

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Will

As a follow up to my previous post titled “How to communicate between multiple Flash files with LocalConnection” I’m going to demonstrate a slightly more advanced way of using the LocalConnection object in Flash.

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