When handling support requests for some of the Market Apps that I developed I sometimes received the question if an app runs on one device or another. Since most of my apps are designed to run with a minimum of resources it’s enough to know if that device runs Flash or not. Until lately searching [...]
Archive for the ‘Flex’ Category
Avoid browser caching with Flash/Flash builder with the random number trick
A simple way to avoid caching of static files that get replaced sometimes is by appending a ?r=randomNumber to the filename. For webservers everything behind the ? are dynamic parameters using the format variable1=value1&variable2=value2… and so on. As long as you don’t handle those parameters in your scripts they get ignored by the server. The [...]
System hard disc running full when using Adobe Media Encoder
Running Adobe Media Encoder on a system with a virus scanner, AME might not delete its cache/work files. Those files can be several gigabytes of size. To delete those cache files go to: [users folder]\[your profile]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common There you’ll find a folder “Media Cache Files”, delete everything inside. Make sure AME is closed when you do [...]
Using Local Shared Object (Flash Cookies) to display different content depending on if it’s the first visit or not
A friend asked for some help with displaying content only on the first visit of a site. This is the example I wrote for him: // request the flash cookie/local shared object with the name “someCookieId” var myFlashCookie:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal(“someCookieId”); // check if the field “isFirstStart” is set if(myFlashCookie.data["isFirstStart"]==undefined){ // the field “isFirstStart” is not [...]
Publishing Flash SWFs on Blackberry Playbook using SWFLoader
If you develop for the Blackberry Playbook you are required to use Flash Builder. Since I had a row of titles have been written for Flash and there’s no easy way to convert the code in between those two development solutions I tried to load the compiled Flash SWF into Flash Builder. After a few [...]
Adobe Flash CS5 and Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 (Burito)
Be carefull with installing the latest Flash Builder 4.5 (Burito) beta. It comes with a flash player that can damage the debugging process in Flash CS5. If you installed the Flash Builder Beta your CS5 Flash Player might show one of the following behaviours: Random crashes of the internal preview – only on the debug [...]