The tutorials they keep ‘a coming: the PrintJob class, because #p is so nineties. The EventDispatcher tutorial is written and submitted, it should be on actionscript.org in the next few days hopefully; that one has to be my best as of yet.
This has to be one of the weirdest issues I’ve encountered with Flash so far. wmode=transparent does not play well with Firefox. It breaks textfields. First of all it hides the flashing cursor on focus, which is annoying enough (that has been known for a long time). Sometimes it’s not even possible to write in […]
A quick security reminder: if your site stores passwords in SQL, you have a responsability toward the user that their password is safe. But what if someone hacks your database? Well if you’ve stored passwords in plain text, then of course all of your user’s passwords are compromised. There are a lot of things you […]
Actionscript.org has my latest tutorial on using mx.utils.Delegate. Covers using it with v2 components, low-level events and setInterval. Nothing new for the initiated but should come in handy when your next client asks: “What’s with Delegate.create all over the place?”. A PrintJob tutorial should be out soon. I’m also thinking of writing a piece on […]