In case you havent heard of it yet, as3swf is an ActionScript 3 library to parse and publish SWF files. It does that rather well by now, providing full roundtrip publishing, plus some neat extra features like shape export to AS3 Drawing API, AS3 GraphicsObjects, FXG, and Objective-C. Whenever i find some free time i’m [...]
What if somebody would write a spider (which respects common conventions like robots.txt etc) that searches for and archives publicly available SWF files, and a service that makes graphical assets found in those SWFs (vector shapes, bitmap images, videos, fonts, etc) available for public browsing, similar to what the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine does? As [...]
Lately, Adobe representatives and Flash fan boys alike became more vocal than usual about the alleged openness of Flash. This is probably spurred by the proposed feature set of HTML5, as well as the decisions of a certain vendor to ban Flash from some of their products, both potentially being threats to Adobe and the [...]
So did you ever try to play Shoutcast streams in Flash? Did you run into memory leaks? Did the playback sound pitched or otherwise screwed? Fear no more. Let me introduce you to as3icy.
Open Flash CS4, create new AS3 FLA, add as3swf.swc and paste this on frame 1: import com.codeazur.as3swf.SWF; var swf:SWF = new SWF(root.loaderInfo.bytes); trace(swf); Trace output: [SWF] Header: Version: 10 FileLength: 149405 FileLengthCompressed: 149405 FrameSize: (550,400) FrameRate: 24 FrameCount: 1 Tags: [69:FileAttributes] AS3: true, HasMetadata: false, UseDirectBlit: false, UseGPU: false, UseNetwork: false [09:SetBackgroundColor] Color: #FFFFFF [86:DefineSceneAndFrameLabelData] [...]
Back when Twitter was called FlashCoders, there was a ragtag bunch of rebels who refused to bow to the Empire. The Rebel Alliance had mastered the ancient art of wielding the __proto__, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Its sharp underscores could slice through any object. So cleanly, in fact, that members could [...]
I have been inbetween projects the last weeks and thought i could do something productive while i’m idle, so i created as3swf, a low level Actionscript 3 library to parse, create, modify and publish SWF files. At the same time i experimented with iPhone development, as we at côdeazur have some commercial iPhone work lined up. Part [...]
While testing my AS3 SWF library as3swf yesterday, i found that MXMLC (the compiler that comes with the Flex SDKs) writes undocumented SWF tags to the SWFs it produces. I was able to identify two so far: ProductInfo (Tag ID 41) The ProductInfo tag contains infos about the tool used to generate the SWF, as [...]
In case you were wondering what i have been working on in the last few months (and what will keep me busy in the coming months).. AUPEO! is a brand new platform that combines music and community – online, offline, on the road, on the web, on your desktop, on your devices. I can’t tell [...]
I need a custom installer for an AIR application i’m currently developing. That’s because my AIR app needs additional functionality that the AIR runtime doesn’t provide (specifically: detecting USB storage devices, act as a TCP socket server, talk to Last.fm scrobbler plugins). For that purpose i wrote a local RPC socket server gateway in C [...]
