Articles in FLASH AND FLEX

Flash Player 11.2 custom right-click example

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Brussels putting together some demos for my presentation tomorrow. Below you can check out my example of creating a custom right-click menu in Flash Player 11.2. You can also download the FLA but make sure you have CS6...

Quick Tip: Targeting new AIR SDK in Flash CS6

By Lee Brimelow

I had no idea that this feature was in Flash CS6. Finally we can easily target new versions of AIR! Check out how in the tip below. Thanks to Daniel Albu for tipping me off about this. [if !IE]>

New tutorial on creating object pools in AS3

By Lee Brimelow

I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows you how to create and use object pools in AS3. In the example I am using Starling but the concepts carry over to any other framework or just the traditional display list. This concept is vital to get good performance...

GreenSock tweening comes to JavaScript

By Lee Brimelow

Great news for those who are looking to get into JS animation. GreenSock, the creator of excellent libraries like TweenLite and TweenMax, has just released their new animation platform and it includes support for both Flash and HTML5. By the looks of the API,...

Meet the Samsung Focus 2: LTE and beautiful design for only $49.99

By Ben Rudolph

One of the most popular Windows Phone devices of all time is theoriginal Samsung Focus, and for good reason - it was fast, sleek, had a killer Super AMOLED screen, and got great battery life. Since then, Samsung's released two really great devices in the...

Who can help me with Flex SDK 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010

By dwhenning

Hi My company requires a solution that incorporates an e-learning web application and have asked me to do some R&D; on the subject. We use asp.net and c# with the .net 4.0 framework. They want to use a flash video (swf) to do the e-learning part and via the...

Reader Q&A: Flash Redux

By Herb Sutter

David Braun asked: @Tom @Herb: What's so wrong with flash that it should be boycotted? Have I been being abused by it in some way I'm not aware of? Also,does HTML5 have any bearing on the subject? I'm not saying it should be boycotted, only that...

AISpeech API ASDK Tutorial–A spoken English assessment application

By Menrfa

In this tutorial, we will work through how to create a spoken English assessment Flex application using AISpeech API and their ASSDK (ActionScript SDK).

Flash Player 11.3 fullscreen keyboard input

By Lee Brimelow

One of the greatest features in Flash Player 11.3 is the ability to accept full keyboard input while in fullscreen mode. This is really important for fullscreen games that need chat or other keyboard input. You can implement this feature very easily by using...

AISpeech API ASSDK tutorial 2: A more completed version

By Menrfa

In this article, we are going to build up a more completed version. We will explore almost every main methods ASSDK has provided, in addition to looking at those ASSDK returns and responses.