Category Archives: Extensibility

I’ve been thinking of this concept for a long time. Here’s the basic idea: 1. Create a C# program that gets some user input. 2. Based on the user input, it writes a JSFL file. 3. It then calls that … Continue reading →

After yesterday’s post about www.flashextensibility.com, I was forced to confront the site itself and how out of date it was. I did manage to fix up the forum anyway. It was originally my intention for the site to be a … Continue reading →

A recent post by J.D. alerted me to the fact that the forums at www.flashextensibility.com were down. Actually, Flashguru, owner of the Extend Flash mailing list had alerted me of this a few days back, but I didn’t get around … Continue reading →

So I am developing an app which loads some xml and parses it. Based on what’s in the xml, it loads another swf, and passes part of the xml over to the loaded swf. So right now I’m trying to … Continue reading →

Well, finally got my advance copies of the book: About the book It should hit the stores within a week or so. Looks good. I’m proud of it.I hope it will spark the creation of a lot more extensions. Currently … Continue reading →

Do you ever use invisible buttons? No shape except in the hit state. They are very useful because they show up as a translucent blue shape in the authoring environment, but don’t show up when published. You can apply them … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of posts about command line Flash compilers lately. Just wanted to share a quick and dirty solution I developed, using… DOS batch files! Here is the batch file: @echo off echo // > tempPublish.jsfl :start echo … Continue reading →

A few people asked me why I would do something like IDE Asteroids (see previous entry). What possible use could something like that be? Well, first of all, I did it to see if I could. But then I was … Continue reading →