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on AIR London / Review

by James on 11th April, 2008 in Air

Well, despite coming down with a killer headache 1/2 way through the event, I thoroughly enjoyed the London leg of the on AIR tour. All the guys from Adobe and [most of] the ‘guest speakers’ were really interesting. Toying around with AIR before the event helped understand things a little better, but looking up stuff on the ‘net just doesn’t compare to having it demonstrated on the tour. Like the worlds smallest video player.

I think you can tell something’s good if the event-hype subsides and you still find yourself dreaming up ideas.
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UTF-8 Bot – file encoding conversion with AIR

by James on 8th April, 2008 in Air

Well, here it is, my first Adobe AIR application from Flash.

Playing with Air…

by James on 7th April, 2008 in Air

I thought i’d do a little bit of serious work with Air – how about an application for converting text file formats? Well ok, it sounds boring, but it’s a starting point. I’m not finished yet, but my deadline is pretty harsh (Wednesday, in fact!) so I’m hoping to have another update tomorrow, once I’ve ironed out a few remaining bugs (and removed the chance that the application will corrupt your files!)
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Exploring the Flash CS3 FLVPlayback component

by James on 4th April, 2008 in Flash

The FLVPlayback component that comes with Flash CS3 has been given a bit of a facelift, you know. (Well, the AS3 one has anyway – the older AS2 version is still the same old Flash 8 one).

Both versions have support for FullScreen, High-Def video and embedded Captioning, but what ‘excites’ me is that the ActionScript 3 version of the FLVPlayback component has the FullScreen and Captioning features built right into the default skin and moreover, the skin is far more flexible;

Nice, eh? You should be able to see that, in the ActionScript 3 version of the component, you are able to pick the background colour and opacity of the skin – no more messing around with custom skins for simple jobs – as well as the new component buttons in your Flash Video arsenal.
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