Richard Leggett on New Media

Very short post, I didn't find anything when googling for this so I wanted to add back to the pool. The problem: I have an IFocusableComponent which is rotated, in my case some "transform handles" being used to manipulate some on screen items. When ta… more »

This post discusses the various workflows for producing SWFs with the standalone compiler that use graphical assets and animations created in Flash Professional ("Flash Pro"). At time of writing the latest version of Flash Pro is CS4, with CS5 out in beta. Specifically we look at the methods that involve exporting SWCs and using the [Embed] metatag within class files.So you're building an application, a game, or a website. Immediately you have two options when it comes to setting up your Flash project. You can create an FLA file, assign a document class and get coding, or you can fire up Flash(/Flex) Builder/FDT/Flash Develop et al, create a new Flex or AS3 project and compile it using the Flex SDK compiler. Pretty much every time I'll opt for the latter because of the increased reliability of the application, and faster compile times... more »

This relates to using ASDoc to generate documentation for a Flex or AIR project that uses conditional compilation (read more and see tip at end).Conditional Compilation Just for some background, the Flex compiler supports what is known as conditi… more »

It appears a new Views module has been released which is causing a couple of problems with the Drupal/Flash stuff, so I've updated the post to describe the necessary steps. Hopefully the Adobe DevNet article will also be updated soon with these changes.… more »

I'm pleased to see that an article I wrote for Adobe DevNet has just gone live. "Creating Drupal Sites for Flash or Flex" describes the benefits of using a CMS for your Flash or Flex sites, how to set everything up, getting Flash talking to Drupal, and a… more »