Category Archives: Tutorials

Celebrating 1 Year of blogging

1 year ago I wrote my first post on this blog 😉 To celebrate this year of writing I wanted to share with you the examples I made for my “introduction to Actionscript 2.0” lessons in June. Some of those examples are from the Flash Help Documentation. There are 7 chapter from an introduction to… Read More »

IMEI and Flash Lite Bug with Bluetooth

I recently have noticed a bug in my Flash Lite app, the Imei Number (Identification Number of Mobile Phone) won’t show sometime, first I thought about an error of my part, but the same application would sometimes work and some other time won’t. Well it’s seems that when you got a Bluetooth link working, your… Read More »

GetMaxSize of a Shared Object (FlashLite 2)

Although it sound obvious once known it was quite a surprise for me. An example is better than a long sentence : [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.metah.ch/blog/image/fp_soClass.swf” height=”250″ width=”430″/] Here you can notice that to access the Size() of a SO you need : the_so.getSize (); but to get access to the MaxSize() of SO you need to… Read More »

AS3 video tutorial : helloworld

I’ve just opened a new folder for actionscript3 over my server. You can access it directly with the url : as3.metah.ch My first video is about beginning AS3 with Flash 9 Alpha and to create a little helloworld application in AS3. My English is quite terrific and I hope you can still understand what I… Read More »

Meeting Fscommand2 with Flash Lite 2.0

Here a little example about using Fscommand2 with Flash Lite, you can access some low level (not really but kind of) information about Network, Player Memory, Platform and so on. As you can guess it doesn’t work on Flash Player(that why what you see bug) but it works well in emulator and on FlashLite2 Player.… Read More »

Video tutorial for ActionScript beginner (en Français)

Un tutorial vidéo pour les débutants en ActionScript que je viens de mettre en place. Au début je testais seulement le logiciel (IshowU) et le tout a fini en petit tutorial 😉 Vous verrez comment faire pour manipuler un objet graphique directement avec AS. Le tutorial dure environ 5 min. Visionner la vidéo Télécharger la… Read More »

Flash Video (flv) actionscripting

I have regroup some of the examples from the Flash Help Document in one (little) working example. Example of how to load and preload a flv. How to manage the buffer time and length How to access the metadata of a flv The only things you need to do to make it work is to… Read More »

Flash Color Picker

This tip may sound funny for must of you but it was a discovery for me. When I used the “color picker” in Flash, I always thought that I can only pick colour in the Flash application. But in fact, you can use the color picker in all your screen even if the cursor icon… Read More »