Posts filed under 'Flash'

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 | | continue reading

Is standards compliance so important?

I generally advocate standards compliant code, but sometimes things can go too far. And too far is when it harms the user experience. There’s been a lot of fuss lately over what code to use when embedding flash in a web page…

Posted on 16 August 2006 | | continue reading

Is this the best soccer game on the web?

Stick Sports Soccer launched today over at Stick Sports and whether it's the best soccer game or not, I'm proud to have built it. I didn't build the whole site, just did all the actionscript programming for the game...

Posted on 8 August 2006 | | continue reading

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