Adobe Systems, the world’s largest maker of design software, reported quarterly results and targets ahead of Wall Street expectations on strong sales of its updated suite of products. Net income for the fiscal third quarter ended Aug. 31 rose to $205.2 million, or 34 cents a diluted share, compared with $94.4 million, or 16 cents… Read More »
Good news from Emmy Huang, Flash 10 is now officially codenamed “ASTRO”. The changes were so impressive with Flash Player 9, I’m wondering what they will do this time to free up our imagination. Mike Huntingtonhas to set up a whishlist, so if you got any idea go for it. Flash Player 10 will be… Read More »
This result surprised me, really. I thought that it would be much higher. I understand that it is not a worldwide statistics but app. 1/5 of top 5000 sites using Flash is really not a good sign or is it? Hard to find information to compare Flash against other technologies, maybe because Flash is quite… Read More »
Yesterday I received my so much awaited CS3 Master Jedi (I hope it’s a good sign for my exams). Full of joy I inserted the first DVD and launched the setup … and nothing happened, not even an error, just nothing (imagine the frustration). Hopefully the solution is the same as I already wrote about… Read More »
New article in Flash Developer Center: The reflect Class from Ben Pritchard […]This tutorial steps you through the creation of the Reflect class, a custom ActionScript 3.0 class that you can apply to reflections on movie clips […]. The Reflect class is intended for any developer or designer who would like to achieve an effect… Read More »
As I use more and more the SWFObject, I took some time to create a Dreamweaver extension that insert the SWFObject Script and the Div with most of the options I ever need with it. I just tested it on DW CS3, and it worked well as long as you are in design or split… Read More »
A new ActionScript 3.0 tutorial is just out, thanks to the awful weather we got here in Geneva… This tutorial is about interaction between ActionScript and JavaScript. Calling functions from both languages is really easy since Flash8 and it did not change with Flash CS3. In this tutorial we call function from AS to JS… Read More »
Finally, I found the time to make a new video tutorial about AS3: How to send and receive values to/from a database with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0. Using a server sided script (in this example php). Basically it will do simply what you could do so hardly with AJAX: asynchronous request. I used Captivate… Read More »
I was reading the post from Google Webmaster Central (link via FlashEnabled), about the best uses of Flash. Someone (Jason) commented that the was to use JavaScript (SWFObject) to make the Div replacement, another one warned him about the danger as being considered as cloaking by the Google Bot. Personally I used this technique in… Read More »
After offering the Ebook “AIR for Flex Developers“, Danny Dura, Kevin Hoyt and Mike Chambers has release a new book: AIR for JavaScript Developers. The free Ebook is available on Ajaxian. The pocket guide covers: Introduction to AIR Getting Started with AIR development Working with JavaScript and HTML within AIR AIR Mini Cookbook Command line… Read More »
Grant Skinner has post an update of his AIR Panel for Flash. you can have all the installation instruction from his previous post. The AIR Panel works very good here 🙂 Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
New article from the ActionScript Technology Center by Peter Elst about Object-oriented programming with AS3. I know a lot of Flasher only used some procedural programming but now the AS3 change it all. You really need to understand well OOP to have the most of Flash CS3 and Flex. The concept of classes is at… Read More »
Just read on Paul Robertson blog’s about some features offered with AIR and local database. The news has been out from some times now but I haven’t seen example of this before (I’m in exam period that may explain it…). Well anyway the post is interesting and give the link to the Livedocs : “SQL… Read More »
*** Update : For people having the CD installation, not the CS3 trials only, this post should be more useful: How to install CS3 Suite in 4 steps on Vista. *** Yesterday I tried to install some of the CS3 trials and could only get the installation to return a : installation could not be… Read More »
No I’m not talking about the torrent… To evaluate Adobe’s creative software, we are offering fully functional 30-day trials of all Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 products and editions. There are two ways to get a trial: by downloading a trial or by ordering a trial DVD set. When the trial expires, you must purchase the… Read More »