Archive for the ‘All Flash’ Category

(Obsfucate data) embed an swf as a hexadecimal string in your …swf

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

You can embed an swf, or any other binary octet stream, containing -harder to get to- data as a hexadecimal string into your project. Note: This is not true data security. Nothing is securable in actionscript, but you CAN make it hard(er) to get to. So to describe my last ...

FlashDevelop Syntax Coloring: Dark Theme

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Back in time I used Sepy as a texteditor as an alternative to the Flash IDE Non-Code-Editor. Now my snappy editor of choice is FlashDevelop, totally tailored towards Flex SDK publishing. In Sepy I had a nice dark background theme, but since the switch to FD I never took the time to ...

setting breakpoints, debug swf via console / terminal /prompt with fdb

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Finally found a nice article that explains how flex sdk's fdb command line debug tool works :) Reminder for myself: http://installingcats.com/2007/12/07/how-to-use-command-line-debugger-fdb-to-debug-flex-flash-on-mac-os-x/ Got into it for a moment ----> this will be a messy post :) found some extra info / commands within fdb now: New to fdb? Do 'tutorial' for basic info. List of fdb commands: bt ...

flex sdk compile time variables, switches and resources Hacks

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Super nice article on how to create a compiletime conditional switch for for ex. calling an alternate version of the same function or adding compiletime var-values at  with the flex sdk command line http://code.awenmedia.com/node/34 Code examples from his site: ADDING COMPILETIME VARS: mxmlc MyConfigClass.as -define+=CONFIG::someSetting,true or ...-define+=CONFIG::myString,"'Hello!'" -define+=CONFIG::myNumber,"7" for someSetting the AS3 class would be: package { public class ...

AS3 textfield blinking caret after textfield focus / tabbing ? Solved!

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

To obtain focus on a textfield with a custom textformat on it can give you headaches: From wrong caret color to disapaering textcontent when you use tab button to unselectable text content. You just keep fumbling around with _Textfield.stage.focus = _Textfield without joy. I lost several hours to get the caret blinking ...

loadBitmap & external pixel peace

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Darn, Why can't we straightaway do a loadBitmap targetting a bitmap item in the library from a loaded external swf (within our own domain!) ? There must be some flashgod that sees evil in external pixels. Anyways here is a workaround (AS2). If we have a canvas.swf that wants to load external.swf and wants to ...

AS3 preloader on frame 1 (insert factoryClass)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

How to add an AS3 preloader on frame 1 and bind it with a light BootPreloader Class? Especially nice if you use the flex sdk compiler without flash IDE. as simple as this: In your documentClass: place this underneath your imports and above your myDocumentClass(){} declaration: [ftf h="140" w="680"][SWF( backgroundColor='0xff0000', frameRate='30', width='980', height='320')] //alternative factoryClass / ...