February 2, 2010 - 6:10 pm
Tags: adobe, apple, Flash, ipad, iPhone, kevin lynch, open screen, osp, platform
Posted in Industry, adobe, open screen project | No comments
Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch just published a blog post with his thoughts on Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more.
The blog post entitled “Open Access to Content and Applications” gives you a good idea on where Adobe and the Flash Platform is going and what we are doing with our Open Screen [...]
January 28, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Tags: apple, Flash, ipad, open screen project
Posted in Industry | 38 comments
DISCLAIMER: I work for Adobe on the platform evangelism team. I’ve been a Flash designer/developer for the last 12 years. Even though I work for Adobe. I’m pretty sure I would have also written this post if I was still a freelance Flash developer. The views expressed on this blog are my own and do [...]
The Flex family extends far beyond the Flex Framework and the Flash Builder IDE. A lot of third party vendors have created applications, frameworks, components and tools to help you be successful in your application development. There are tools for functional, performance and security testing, third party components, AMF products, licensing and encryption tools and [...]
Well… Picking a winner in my blog design contest was far from easy. I had multiple favorites and so I asked a few friends to help me pick the winner. We eventually narrowed it down to two and then did a final voting round.
The winner is Marten De Jongh, a freelance photographer/designer from The Netherlands. [...]
There’s a good chance you immediately recognized the game in this screenshot. Over 28 million people played Farmville yesterday. Another 10 million played Cafe World. 6 million for FishVille Mafia Wars (Mafia Wars is not a Flash Game. Thanks Robert for pointing that out!). In fact, Zynga alone (maker of these games) serves 60 million players every [...]
December 9, 2009 - 3:47 pm
Tags: applications, cross device, Flash, flash cs5, Flash Player, iPhone, mobile, native, palm, pre
Posted in Flash Platform, devices, iPhone, mobile | 19 comments
Write once, deploy anywhere. Sounds nice, no? Sadly it’s not really a reality today. The currently available technologies are very fragmented and today there is no technology out there that makes that dream a reality.
I have a strong feeling that is going to change dramatically in 2010. Some will disagree or say that I am [...]
December 7, 2009 - 4:32 pm
Tags: adobe air, AIR, apple, concept, demonstration, Flex, magazines, multi-touch, tablet, Video
Posted in Cool stuff | 4 comments
I came across this video on Ubergizmo and I wish this was real today…! The video demonstrates a multi-touch tablet to read magazines in full color with video, audio and online capabilities. The video is created by The Wonder Factory and other than that, there really isn’t any more information out there. While it’s only [...]
Last week I realized that I am not 100% happy with the blog theme I recently installed. I like it, but it’s not quite exactly what I wanted. In all honesty, I don’t really like fiddling around with CSS and HTML. I hate having to navigate around different browser implementations and therefore never really got [...]
Note: Please update your After Effects CS4 installation to make sure you have the latest version available via the Adobe Updater. There is an issue with the preinstalled After Effects script that requires you to work with the latest point release (separate downloads available for Mac OS and Windows).
Ever wondered how you can create personalized [...]
Earlier this week, Kevin Lynch was a guest at NewTeeVee Live. He talks about Flash on TVs, the future of the Flash Platform. He also talks about how open Adobe has become and was also asked about his stance on HTML5.
March 9, 2009 - 11:46 am
Cool video.
One question: Why are you using the vimeo player and not the Adobe TV embed player?
March 9, 2009 - 11:49 am
Thanks James. I decided to consolidate all my videos in one place. They will still be available on Adobe TV but my Vimeo account will be my main “channel”.
March 9, 2009 - 2:37 pm
Thank you sooo much I was looking for this so many time!
March 9, 2009 - 8:54 pm
Informative as always!
Thanks mate
March 22, 2009 - 8:10 pm
Serge, using Vimeo…. good move. So sorry, but I can’t stand Adobe TV and am happy you put your videos on Vimeo.
Cheers!
April 28, 2009 - 8:57 pm
Is there an advantage to using this method over using a classpath in Flash connected to classes created in Flex? Great tutorial! Thanks!
August 7, 2009 - 12:51 pm
Hi Serge et al.,
I’ve come across a strange problem when I tried to replicate this example on Windows XP. I did all the Flex steps as in the tutorial and then created a new file in Flash CS4 (“Untitled-1″). When I test the movie in Flash, everything’s fine. Also an additional trace statement after addChild(myRect); is displayed as expected in the Output panel.
However, as soon as I save the ‘untitled’ .fla file to my hard disk the following happens when I test the movie: the movie itself is empty (no rectangle to be seen), no trace statement but also not any error message! The same problem occurs when I directly save the empty .fla to my hard disk and then link to the swc and add the timeline code.
Do you have any suggestion why this happens – is it a bug or do I have to do an extra step when working with an already saved .fla file? Did anyone else come across this problem?
Thanks,
Thomas
August 7, 2009 - 1:23 pm
Hi all, it’s me again. I’ve got some more info about the problem I described in my previous post: it actually matters on which hard disk partition I save the .fla file (no matter if it’s from the ‘untitled’ state or if I do “Save as…”)!
I’ve got two Windows partitions, C: and D: All my Adobe software and the linked .swc file are on C: If I save the .fla file to D: and then test the movie, nothing happens. If I (re)save the .fla file to C: and then test the movie, everything works fine! Any comments or suggestions why this happens?
December 28, 2009 - 7:50 pm
Amazing! Thanks a lot. I was really looking for this stuff. It’s great! Very Informative