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Firefox with wmode ignores Key.isDown()

8 Mar

I am sure this is old news to many of you, but today was the first time I have run into this issue. I am working on a site for a client that has very high accessibility requirements. I originally built my project to be controlled using the mouse and was asked this morning to [...]

Flex Style Explorer 2.0.1

16 Feb

While reading through MXNA today, I came across an article written by Peter Baird outlining new updates to the latest release of the Flex Style Explorer. This application is a huge time saver when creating CSS to control the look of your Flex applications. Some of the new features include: – Advanced Color Picker – [...]

Rolex.com Redesign Launched Today

1 Feb

I thought this day would never come. The soon to be award winning Rolex.com redesign has finally been launched. Before leaving Critical Mass I spent around three months on the Rolex team helping out on the development side of this site. Although the site appears to be completly Flash to the common user, it supports [...]

Flash Player 9 for Linux Released

17 Jan

“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends unprecedented performance and advanced features to the broadest set of developers and [...]

Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 2 – XML

19 Sep

A few posts ago, I showed you how to build a basic menu using an Array of button names. Now, I will demonstrate how to build the same menu, but this time use the new XML class which is based on E4X. There are many benefits of using XML in your applications. The main reason [...]