Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

Create your own contextmenu in Flash

LorenzGames.com has a nice and clear article explaining how to create your own contextmenu in Flash, like the infamous JW Player has. See the link below. http://www.lorenzgames.com/blog/how-to-customize-the-swf-right-click-menu-with-as3

Flash apps for iPhone?

Before you read on: Flash is not coming to the iPhone (yet). That said, Adobe has announced they’re making it possible to compile Flash applications as iPhone applications. There are numerous application in the App Store already and more are coming. An example of such an application is the South Park Avatar Creator. Unfortunately, the [...]

Updating items directly in the DataProvider

This is one of those problems on which you could spend hours to find a solution. When having a DataGrid in Actionscript 3 and have a DataProvider behind it holding all data, updating the DataGrid can be quite a struggle. If you update the items in the DataProvider, they don’t show in the DataGrid, even [...]

RSO’s on FMS3, problem with SyncEvent?

If you’re using Remote Shared Objects (RSO’s) in conjunction with Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3) and having trouble getting the SyncEvent to fire after one of the RSO’s gets updated, then you’re not the only one. I struggled with this issue for an entire day, making it worthwile to write about it. According to Brad [...]