Spotted a GTween AS3 library, thought I’d share it. GTween is a compact but quite robust AS3 library developed by Grant Skinner. It can be used to implement tweens, animations, and gradients. It cu...

The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is out. In addition to AIR 1.5 being released today, the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is also being released. This book will be an essential resource for anyone doing AIR development - as it also includes the new AIR 1.5 features. This book is an excellent resource for beginners and advanced AIR developers alike. If you have never touched AIR, this book can certainly get you started. In addition, we cover all development angles on this: Flash, Flex, and HTML / JavaScript.

After seeing Halley’s image processing tool, I came across another mature online image-processing RIA, similar to Photoshop, very powerful, specializing in bitmap work — you can open images uploade...

I came across an online image-editing RIA on Halley‘s blog. MediaCreator alpha1 is an online multimedia authoring app built in Flash — a prototype along the lines of scrapblog. Some basic functionality is already in place: it lets users edit images, text and vector graphics online, and add masks, borders and backgrounds.

Who will save me? Error reading ByteArray from amfphp in Flash Related search phrases: Sending a ByteArray from AMFPHP to Flash fails / AMF can’t send a ByteArray to AS3 / ByteArray can’t be remoted to Flash TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Object@******* to flash.utils.ByteArray. / TypeError: Error #1034: 强制转换类型失败:无法将 Object@*******转换为 flash.utils.ByteArray It happens with AS3 Flash remoting, not with Flex remoting.

China’s first Flash 10 3D engine is now open source Thanks to the author machaoii for the painstaking, day-and-night grind. Work on the Flash 3D engine officially kicked off in early July, and yesterday it finally took shape. The project has now been renamed NewX3D — China’s first Flash 10-based 3D engine

I’m never one to back down from wrestling with the most bizarre problems—let’s see who comes out on top. It’s been ages since I hit an obstacle while coding, yet today I ran into a little snag—XML generated by PHP came out as garbled text when fetched with FLASH. After some digging I finally solved it. Recording it here, and also jotting down the general solution. If you also run into XML <-> FLASH garbled text, here’s a quick reference: 1. When you’re certain the XML is absolutely fine:First, FLASH reading XML and getting garbled text involves the static property System.useCodepage. Official description: “A Boolean value that tells Flash Player which code page to use to interpret external text files.” Defaults to false.

Fanfou 1.7 released, sharing part of the code for the newly added minimize-to-system-tray feature:

Reflection: I was too lazy — too lazy to check the official docs for how to minimize to the tray. As it turns out, AIR had this designed in all along. See the official AIR document DEV_GUIDE_FLASH, <Chapter 13: Taskbar icons>. Let me study it now, and put together a Chinese doc along the way to atone. Overview: About taskbar iconsMany operating systems provide a taskbar where applications can display a small icon representing themselves. ADOBE AIR exposes an interface for interacting with an application’s taskbar icon through the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon property. AIR creates the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon object automatically. The type of this object is either SystemTrayIcon or DockIcon, depending on the operating system.

Yesterday morning, AIR auto-updated and installed itself in Chinese~ At the time I had no idea AIR 1.1 was released that very day. So exciting. Adobe AIR lets you keep your favorite web apps with y...