http://blog.invassive.com actionscript, flash, flex, AIR,... Thu, 29 May 2008 06:38:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In order to use the <b> tag within html text in flash and have Flash automatically detect the right font to use for bold, you must embed both character sets and specify the fontWeight of both. Sounds more complicated than it is. Just use the following code when embedding fonts: [as] [Embed(mimeType='application/x-font', source='fonts/myFont-Medium.ttf', ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/05/26/embeding-fonts-in-flash-to-display-bold-the-right-way/ HTML tags supported Tag Description Anchor tag The <a> tag creates a hypertext link and supports the following attributes: target: Specifies the name of the target window where you load the page. Options include _self, _blank, _parent, and _top. The _self option specifies the current frame in the current window, _blank ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/05/14/css-properties-available-in-flash-9/ And it does it out of the box. SWFAddress 2.1 is out and it supports Google Analytics with no extra effort. No code necessary except for the usual SCRIPT tags code provided by Google. If you are like me and don't like to read all the fine print, keep in mind that ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/05/03/swfaddress-21-supports-google-analytics/ Publicis & Hal Riney is probably the first site I've navigated leaning back on my seat without touching my mouse or keyboard, and for that they deserve fame, recognition, and free beer. You'll need a webcam or you'll totally miss the point. Innovative with the cam, slightly confusing with the keyboard. http://blog.invassive.com/2008/05/02/inspiration/ Let's go with a little bit of hacking for the masses. Adobe implementation of security relies in some cases on the crossdomain.xml file hosted at the server that holds the data. You can access that data, generally, with your browser, but you can't with the Flash Player if the crossdomain ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/04/30/avoid-crossdomainxml-restrictions/ FarFar is at it again, this time with a funky site for N-Gage. So don't you Get out and Play but stay in and click. via: ThatBasqueGirl http://blog.invassive.com/2008/04/22/inspiration-get-out-and-play/ The very basis of Flash security that concern many content creators is the protection of the intellectual property around websites and other flash powered RIAs. The most common security breach is the easiness to "steal material" from the web (note the quotes). If it's digital it can't be "stolen" and ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/04/17/actionscript-security-about-flash-pirates-and-swf-hackers/ Download EasingAround.zip v.1.0.2 After discovering the cheatseet available for the Tweener API, I've adapted it to display the equations from the EasingAround classes. It is helpful to compare this graphs with the ones from the original equations, so I've included the original cheatseet created by the Tweener team. [swf]http://blog.invassive.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/easingaroundcheatsheet.swf,550,620[/swf] And this is the original ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/04/13/easingaround-cheatsheet/ That should be "forth and back". EasingAround is a class to simplify even more very basic tweens. The idea behind this class is to provide a means to create a tween that starts and ends at the same value. Download EasingAround.zip v.1.0.2 If your regular Easing function [from 1 to 10] behaves as follows: ... http://blog.invassive.com/2008/04/11/easingaround-equations-simple-easing-back-and-forth/ For those of you that have done some pixel shading programming, Adobe is bringing into Flash a very interesting project: Adobe Image Foundation (AIF) Toolkit preview , codenamed Hydra. Now, if only my card was supported... http://blog.invassive.com/2007/10/07/aif-toolkit/