SRSLY? i don’t mean to TOTALLY BLOW YOUR MINDS or anything, but apparently “flash games” – ie “games that have flash in them” – are sweeping the nation. The child heart lurking inside you feels great satisfaction when playing new and exciting flash games full of immense animations and sound effects. i’m impressed with the [...] Keep Reading

Pagination is a navigation style where you have a bunch of content that won’t fit on one screen, so you give your user BACK and NEXT arrow keys to flip through “pages” displaying the content. In many ways, it’s preferable to a scrolling navigation, because you don’t have to fill the box with all of [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: Unloading content (ie external swfs) in AS3 is difficult, if not impossible. SOLUTION: My pal Martin Sieg at marblemedia threw me to an article by Grant Skinner – Failure to Unload: Flash Player 9′s Dirty Secret – where the author discusses a player bug that prevents content unloading. The problem impacts gallery-style projects, and [...] Keep Reading

i was only trying to promote Flex Camp 2 when i launched into a long lament over Macromedia/Adobe’s chosen design path for their Flash software. Industry pal Jim McGinley (of TOJam 3 fame) shared his insights: Visual Basic programmers had an inferiority complex. Despite the fact VB programmers were building business applications in record speed, [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: When i test my movie, it doesn’t respond to all of the keyboard key presses. Only some keys register. OR Certain text characters do not show up in my Input text field when i type them, even though my font outlines are embedded. SOLUTION: In the Test Movie window (NOT the Flash IDE window), [...] Keep Reading