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Adobe Flash on Mobile Devices
Tuesday, June 30, 2009We're starting to see mobile devices supporting flash content within webpages on our mobile devices. When is apple going to jump on this? Will Apple ever support flash on the iPhone? Check out the video below featuring flash on the new HTC Hero:
The iPhone 3G S and the Camera.
Monday, June 22, 2009
I picked up the new phone on Friday just before lunch at the AT&T store in downtown Seattle. There was no line when I arrived, but one formed shortly after. With there being no line and AT&T stating the only phone left in stock was exactly the one I wanted, I figured it'd be best I purchase it.
Either way, the big reason I was stoked on getting a 3G S was for the new touch to focus camera features. With that said, the camera definitely lives up to what I was hoping for. Still no zoom, but other than that it's amazing! The touch to focus works great. The macro focus is amazing. The clarity and color are better and I believe it's an extra mega pixel.
Most of all I'm surprised by the speed of the new phone. The 3G S is much faster than the 3G. Kudos Apple.
I love this picture (taken with 3G S).
oh yeah, the video rocks too.
Owning a bike.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Buying a bike about 3 weeks ago now was the best thing I could have ever done. I've gone the past year in Seattle without a car. Now owning a bike, I have the freedom, adventure, and transportation.
I suggest everyone rides a bike more!
Superscript and Subscript Within Dynamic Text Fields in Flash
Thursday, April 23, 2009So today I ran into the issue of getting superscripted ® and TM characters within dynamic text fields. The doesn't work for this within flash, neither will any CSS trickery. So I turned to font embeds after reading through some other blog posts.
I found 2 fonts in a blog post at blog.ggshow.com: GG Superscript and GG Subscript.
After embedding the superscript font in another dynamic text field you're able to reference the font face and assign it to the characters that need the superscripting.
Like so:
var myString:String = "This is superscript® in a dynamic text field!";
myString = myString.replace("®", '®');
myText.htmlText = myString;
Superscript and Subscript Within Dynamic Text Fields in Flash
Thursday, April 23, 2009So today I ran into the issue of getting superscripted ® and TM characters within dynamic text fields. The doesn't work for this within flash, neither will any CSS trickery. So I turned to font embeds after reading through some other blog posts.
I found 2 fonts in a blog post at blog.ggshow.com: GG Superscript and GG Subscript.
After embedding the superscript font in another dynamic text field you're able to reference the font face and assign it to the characters that need the superscripting.
Like so:
var myString:String = "This is superscript® in a dynamic text field!";
myString = myString.replace("®", '®');
myText.htmlText = myString;
Clearing the Display of a Video Object in Flash Issues
Thursday, March 26, 2009So today a co-worker of mine and I were trying to figure out why he couldn't clear the display of an image in the video object on his stage. The Adobe documentation states that if you use the clear method of the Video class that it should do the following:
"Clears the image currently displayed in the Video object. This is useful when you want to display standby information without having to hide the Video object."
Well... when having smoothing enabled, this does not work. It's a known bug, and I believe it has to do with smoothing caching the video as a bitmap. I'm not fully sure how smoothing works, but it makes sense that this would likely be the problem.
So to clear the video object that has smoothing enabled, you need to disable smoothing then clear the object. After it's been cleared you can turn smoothing back on.
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