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Showing DHTML content on top of flash content
I get asked about this often in my training courses so I thought it might be good to air the issue here. I’m not the first to post about this online but for some reason many people aren’t finding the solution so here it is.
How to show DHTML content (e.g. a pull-down menu) on top of flash content?…
Posted on 18 April 2007 | 1 comment | continue reading
Protecting a swf
In my training courses I often get asked about protecting swf movies. There’s two sides to this – one is encrypting the code to make it hard for others to decompile and use, and the other is limiting where the swf can be used from so that users can’t simply place your swf on their website.
There are a number of commercial and free obfuscating and encryption tools to help protect your code so I’m not going to say any more about them (maybe in a later post). Here’s a few ideas for how to limit where the swf movie may be used.
Posted on 21 March 2007 | 1 comment | continue reading
Free flash preloader components
Some time ago I created a set of components for creating preloaders. They are designed so that the graphics, style and text feedback can all be modified by the user without writing any code.
I used to charge a small fee for them but they’re getting a bit long in the tooth now. Since updating them doesn’t fit with my current plans I’m making them available for free so please help yourself…
Posted on 7 March 2007 | 2 comments | continue reading
Custom context menu with keyboard shortcuts in Flash
I was very pleased that Strictly Sudoku was Adobe’s Site of the Day last Friday.
In creating the site, the aim was to make the best sudoku site on the web and this
award suggests we have gone some way towards that. What follows is a description of how I implemented the custom context menu and keyboard shortcuts on that site…
Posted on 13 December 2006 | 2 comments | continue reading
IE7 and Firefox2 search providers for Flash & Coldfusion LiveDocs
I’ve made some more search providers for the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 navigation bar search boxes. These scripts search various sections of the Adobe LiveDocs, specifically Flash 8, Flex 2, Flash Media Server 2 and Coldfusion MX 7 docs…
Posted on 8 November 2006 | no comments | continue reading
Flash player update adds full-screen support
Adobe have released a beta update for the flash player on Adobe Labs. Among the new features are support for a full-screen mode on the web, so it won’t be long now before we have full-screen flash video and other content on web sites. A brief summary of using full-screen mode in Actionscript 2 follows…
Posted on 13 October 2006 | no comments | continue reading