Archive for the 'Flash' Category

SWFtrospection

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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
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Custom Installer For Adobe AIR Applications

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

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 [...]

FZip Alpha Release: Create And Modify ZIP Archives

Monday, October 8th, 2007

FZip has been around for some time now, and people seem to like it. However one feature has been asked for repeatedly: In addition to reading ZIP archive, people want to be able to create new (and modify existing) archives.
So i finally sat down this weekend and added that.
The code is not tested very well [...]

FZip, AIRRemoteUpdater Upgraded for AIR Beta 2

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Just a quick FYI: FZip and AIRRemoteUpdater upgrades for AIR Beta 2 are now available for download.
FZip now uses ByteArray.uncompress(CompressionAlgorithm.DEFLATE) instead of the now deprecated ByteArray.inflate(). I also tweaked FZip to throw an exception when a parsing error occurs and no event listener is registered for FZipErrorEvent.PARSE_ERROR events.
AIRRemoteUpdater now gets the local descriptor XML via [...]

Automating remote software updates in Adobe AIR applications

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

I just released the first version of AIR Remote Updater, an AS3 class to automate remote software updates in Adobe AIR applications.
It transparently checks version numbers, downloads the .AIR installer file if needed and triggers the AIR-native update process.
It grabs the version number directly from the remote .AIR file without having to [...]

FZip Update

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

We just released an update for FZip (the Actionscript 3 class library to load standard ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files):

Added support for Adobe Air. The Adobe Air runtime provides a low level inflate method, making it possible to load any ZIP archive and decompress compressed files without the need of injecting Adler32 checksums.
Added FZipLibrary [...]

Adobe Apollo and Last.fm: Proof of concept

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I have been toying around with the idea to write an Adobe Apollo application that’s able to monitor your favorite media player (such as Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Rhythmbox, etc) for play back status and song information.
Last.fm provides an application along with plugins for pretty much all existing media players on all major platforms [...]

Flashconference 2007, May 4th, Stuttgart, Germany

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Just to let you know that i’ll be speaking at the 9th annual Flashconference in Stuttgart, Germany on May 4th. My presentation is about the new Actionscript 3 Flash UI Components that come with Adobe Flash CS3. I’ll give an overview on what’s new, what’s different with respect to previous components sets and Flex, if [...]

DENG is back!

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

The DENG Modular XML Browser project finally has a new home. Over the last two years, i switched hostings twice (don’t ask), and DENG was scattered all over the internets, and many things got lost.
I finally sat down to clean up the mess and everything is in one place again. The project homepage features a [...]

MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ and IRC in Flash 8 – 6kbytes.com

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

An old friend of mine from Argentina contacted me recently and showed off his work. I was impressed.
6kbytes.com integrates all your messenger accounts (MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, IRC) into one slick Flash 8 interface. And it’s all free.
As far as i understood, communication is done via XMLSockets to a Jabber server that is used as a [...]