Richard Leggett on New Media

Thanks for sharing. First I thought that it would be nice that it searched the words in the context but then it occurred to me that it would be useless as the results will be very numerous.

I was thinking, may be we should actually fill that issue with getDefinition as a bug/feature request in Adobe JIRA http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/ ?

Am struggling with same workflow problems for last half a year too... Leads me to believe that Flash and Flash Builder workflows are different and separate, and if you bring them together you end up with broken things on both sides.

It is interesting that while assigning class to FLA documents and then trying to make copies of them trough applicationDomain.getDefinition you loose all code and classes. But if some inside object is assigned with class and you get it and make instances of it classes and custom seems to be not lost.

Re: [the filter] will not filter the first level of nodes in the Tree’s children. So by externalising it into a FolderFilter class, we can re-use it to filter the first level when assigning the Tree’s dataProvider without modifying the underlying data.

Please show the code on how you do that. I assume in this case the dataProvider will be a filtered copy of the data so as to avoid modifying the original data (one of the design goals). Right?

Great presentation, you're right though the volume is very low. A suggestion to anyone else planning to listen, headphones is the best option.

The contrast or the color changes with the viewing angle in a LCD monitor whereas in a CRT monitor it is always a consistent image irrespective of viewing angle.

Very good post.

Are you sure on the fact that PS3 uses OpenGL? I only ask as I went to a seminar at University given by a guy from Sony Computer Entertainment and when asked what Sony used he replied that they used DirectX because it was so highly optimized. When asked if they used OpenGL he said no they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole because it just didn't have the same capability as DirectX and furthermore DX also has a number of great tools! They may just have included it in the spec as another supported format, but by the sound of what this guy was saying, most games and demos are programmed in DX.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't use Direct3D, but has a proprietary API with an OpenGL wrapper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenGL_and_Direct3D

Are you sure on the fact that PS3 uses OpenGL? I only ask as I went to a seminar at University given by a guy from Sony Computer Entertainment and when asked what Sony used he replied that they used DirectX because it was so highly optimized. When asked if they used OpenGL he said no they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole because it just didn't have the same capability as DirectX and furthermore DX also has a number of great tools! They may just have included it in the spec as another supported format, but by the sound of what this guy was saying, most games and demos are programmed in DX.

Pretty good article... Thanks... Just a small update, that microsoft has confirmed the support of Canvas in IE 9, so another booster for HTML 5 lovers.

For adobe, the new version of flash player they should not support AS 2 at all since i feel the only reason everyone complains about flash is poor coding practice...

Nice article. I think getting into practice with HTML 5 is only a good idea for possible future development. As of now, I don't see any benefit.

Would be nice if you would have 3d support for firefox

very interesting solution will certainly be useful, very thanks

Cool app :)

Nice graphics, what is the name of template ?

Great post!

Hi Richard,
i have the same problem as Oli in comment #65: No Error-Message, no Data.
It seems the functions in sitemap_test.fla aren't called, so i think the problem lies in sitemapService.loadSitemap()?
I'm using Services 6.x-2.2 and AMFPHP 6.x-1.0-beta2
Any help or hint? Thank you very much!

Hi Richard,

I was working with this, and I found that if the class event is a custom event it doesn't work for me. With Event class it works perfect. I'm on an AIR application that loads remote SWF and I want to dispatch some events between them.

When I use a custom event class, I get this error:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert com.qinteractiva.venca.events.BaseWindowEvent@19837d31 to com.qinteractiva.venca.events.BaseWindowEvent.

Obviously, the conversion is ok, but there is a problem with sandboxes. As I said using Event class it runs ok. Are you really using custom event classes between sandboxes?

Also I have to said that you cannot use parentSandBoxBridge in a remote SWF compiled as SWF, because this property it's only for AIR projects, so how can you call the object bridge from the remote SWF?? I get compile errors.

This situation is a real nightmare!!

For a while I thought Bruce's solution was the best, but I used it in two projects and found that it didn't work.

I ended up writing my own solution to this, which I've found to be watertight. You can find it here:

http://www.deepplaid.com/blog/?p=157