If, for some reason, you’re still on Flash CS4 10.0, upgrade to 10.0.2 NOW. My Flash has slowed down dramatically since my FLA got huge. Clicking on elements on the stage was agony as it takes a few seconds for Flash to react. Little did I realise that Adobe released a fix for it, and [...]

Back in AS2, when a MovieClip(MC) is underneath another one, as long as the MC that is on top doesn’t have any button actions (eg. onRollOver, onRelease etc), assigning button actions to the MC below will work. Not anymore in AS3. A quick fix is to give the following properties to the MC on top [...]

Facing colour problems when you copy and paste something from Illustrator to Flash? The solution, after the jump.

A recent flash site for a local photographer, Zhang Jingna, which was done with a designer, Yanda, won some recognition at some websites. It was a pleasant surprise to know that we won, especially since I thought we could do much better things with the site given more time. http://www.designlicks.com/web-awards/1799-zhang-jingna-photography http://www.designcharts.com/ http://www.webdesignfile.com/zhang-jingna-photography/ http://lancamento.jugem.cc/?eid=3013 Winning these [...]

Finally some tech related news! I’m posting this using the extremely fast Google Chrome, Google’s latest product – a web browser. I’m just going to make this a short one and list down some first impressions and things I’ve noted while using it for the past 30mins. Firstly, the browser is extremely fast when rendering [...]

Since my article for calling thickbox from Flash seems to be my biggest contribution to the people out there, I decided to post a little finding I made myself. It works on IE8!

If you don’t know what is ThickBox, check it out here: http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ That’s some nice way to present content on your site right? Anyway, I’ve been playing around with ThickBox for quite some time now, and a recent project required me to call up a ThickBox iframe from within Flash itself. As the documentation on [...]

- make sure frame rate is the same as swf – set to uncompressed audio if video is in timeline. The reason for point 2 is because flash will automatically compress audio in embedded FLVs, so if you compress audio in Sorenson, you’re getting your audio compressed again in Flash. That’s compression twice!

I always thought Flex should have a UI interface like Flash does, so that designers or beginners can start to do Flex. After looking at Adobe Thermo, which Adobe very mysteriously decided to launch as a seperate product. I found what was supposed to be there! With Adobe Thermo, you’re supposed to be able to [...]

It has been a really busy and fulfilling week for me. After the period of drought, there’s this flood now! I’m talking about freelance projects that is. I’ve been contacted by previous clients. Contacted by people whom I do not know, and I do not know where they got my contact from. Contacted by recommendation. [...]