http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news News about Flash, technology and design. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:48:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the new Motorola Droid announced today, the web is a-twitter with smartphone opinions. This is a topic that people care about, since picking a smartphone is essentially choosing which mobile computer platform you will be using 24/7 for the next few years. Last year, like many tech nerds, I ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=390 What's better than a YouTube video? Sixteen YouTube videos - in 3D! :) This is a for-fun, proof-of-concept demo loading in multiple instances of the new YouTube chromeless player and displaying them with Flash 10's native 3D . Warning - this demo will probably run at a crawl and may crash ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=379 http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=359 I recently noticed this warning when compiling using Flash Builder 4: "Assignment within conditional. Did you mean == instead of =?" How great is that? I used to work with a guy (who will go unnamed) who would threaten to sneak onto your machine and remove equal signs from equality tests ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=354 One problem with Flash development recently is the disconnect between assets created in the Flash IDE and code written in the code editor (Flex Builder, Flash Develop, FDT etc). The code editor has no knowledge of the FLA, so there is no way to list the FLA's exported symbol linkage ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=327 This error caused us some stress at the last minute before a site launch. When doing 'Save and Compact' or 'Save As...' on an FLA, Flash IDE gives a bunch of the following errors: "Page XXX of your document has been damaged. You should delete it." The solution turned out to ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=320 I just found a useful function in the TweenLite library, which is great for easily sequencing multiple function calls. To call myFunction() in half a second with param1 and param2, do this: [as]TweenLite.delayedCall(0.5, myFunction, [param1,param2]);[/as] which is a lot less code than: [as]var tmr:Timer = new Timer(500, 1); tmr.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE,onTimerEvent); tmr.start(); private function onTimerEvent(event:Event):void{ ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=309 My buddy Stan Wiechers just launched a supercool new service that provides Free Mobile Analytics - PercentMobile. Check it out if you want to see how many of your users are viewing your site on a mobile device and what kind of device they are using. To sign up you ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=304 There is a known issue with SWFAddress 2.2: When navigating directly to a deep link, the preloader does not display or jumps straight to 100%. When using the '#' symbol in the URL, the browser loads the main SWF twice which cause the preloader to break. The fix is to use ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=290 I just found out that there is a new 'Battle of the Planets'/G-Force/Gatchaman movie coming out! I used to love BOTP as a kid in the 80s. The weirdness and the beautiful animation really made it stand out from the typical U.S. cartoon dross. It was only later that I ... http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=272