Dynamic Resize Flash Application Container / Flash Stage ( without external JavaScript )

If you have dynamic content within your Flash application or you have several states or “pages” implemented, which all have different content, it might be helpful to resize your flash aplication container within the html- context. For this it’s not enough to resize the application from within the flash application. You also have to resize [...]

Preload assets with JavaScript, load-complete callback for single assets include SWF/Flash

Currently i need to know within JavaScript when a SWF-file was loaded completly. You could easily handle this with a single ExternalInterface call from within the Flash-application. This is not a very nice solution if this has to be done for each of you flash-applications. This is the neccesary way if you also have to [...]

Use your Wii-Remote with the FlashPlayer – WiiFlash

You maybe know the Nintendo Wii and its controller the Wiimote. Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert implement a AS3 package called WiiFlash which allows you to connect the Wiimote ( or Wii Remote Control ) with your Flash/Flex Application. The Wiimote uses several sensors to detect different motion values. It allows you to read the [...]

swfInputs: Solving Mozilla + Transparent Mode + Win + Special Chars within inputs

As you probably know the Flash Player uses three different types of modes an Flash movie is embedded in the browser window. Its is set via the wmode parameter in the embed or param tag. <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <embed wmode="transparent" … With the transparent mode you can influence the relation between the Flash movie [...]

ActionScript Data Structures

In the good old Java world ( not that i’m that familiar with it ) real data structures are a well non secret. Not only in Java but in all older object oriented progaming languages exists different of Design Patterns for effecient data structures and fast access to data structures for different kind of use [...]