Sep 17 Thursday
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AS3 Preloader Listener not firing in Internet Explorer

The ProgressEvent and loaderInfo listener does not fire in IE 6 and 7 during the preloading of a swf’s main timeline. It works fine the first time thought, but upon subsequent reload of the page either through refreshing the page, or through accessing the page from some other webpage in the same browser window, the [...]


Jun 23 Tuesday
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Global functions in AS3

Setting a global function with AS 3.0.


Apr 14 Tuesday
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AS3 stageHeight and stageWidth return 0 at runtime

Any experienced flash developer will know that flash contrary to popular belief do not behave the same throughout all browser. From time to time you get frustrating bug that’s never mentioned in any documentation and this bug that grayed a few strand of my hairs is one of them.
If you need to place a movieclip [...]


Dec 24 Wednesday
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navigateToURL() on CD-ROM With Flash Projector and FireFox on Mac

While creating a projector file meant for a cd-rom, i ran into a peculiar bug that costs me a couple of sleepless nights. Just like how i usually author a swf file meant for web-output, i used navigateToURL() to call a few html files saved locally on the cd. But when the html files are [...]