Oh, I had fun debugging this one. I was using FileReference to build an interface for users to upload their resumes on an agency site. Once the user pressed the send button, the following happened:
File is sent using FileReference to upload.php. The location of the file is remembered using a session. Second file is sent using […]
Here is a new command for Flash 8 which unblurs aliased text. If you’ve used a pixel font inside a deeply nested movieclip and have gotten blurry text, you know how much of a pain it can be to go through the hierarchy of movieclips and place the center on whole pixels. This extension does […]
General call to anyone who has a link in the Tools/Extensions list for Flash 8/MX 2004: fix your dead links. A lot of people have changed blog software or done some cleanup on their sites and a lot of links are now broken. In particular, Keith Peters’ Invisible button tool, everything on the old flashextensibility.com […]
I had noticed some weird behavior with the Simulate Download mode of the Flash IDE test player, but I had failed to track down the issue earlier. The issue is that static vars aren’t reset when Simulate Download mode is selected: they keep their values from the previous regular test mode. To see the bug […]
The title says it all: Stage.height return Stage.height - 100 when the bandwidth profiler is on. To test, create a new movie, and place an action like so on the first frame: trace(Stage.height);. Test, and when in test mode, select View > Bandwidth profiler. Now, close, and test again. The bandwidth profiler should now be […]