Woke up and the cat wasn’t at my feet. Weird. Come to think of it, I didn’t hear anything getting smashed last night either — could the cat have run off? So I flipped 180 degrees out of my groggy haze and got up to check whether the cat was still around. As usual, I pulled out the ham-sausage-slicing knife and slid it out of its sheath to make a noise. Normally that’s enough to summon the cat, who shows up demanding ham sausage. This time, nothing.

Question: How do you drag an object from a list onto the canvas? Approach The ability to drag an object from a list straight onto the canvas is something you often need in a scene editor. You put a List on screen, each item corresponds to a building, and the user can drag the building into the scene. It works the same way as dragging things from the Flash library onto the stage. We can store the ClassName corresponding to each item in that item; when dragging starts, we create an instance of it and let it follow the mouse. Only when the mouse is released over a valid area of the canvas do we add it to the new DisplayObjectContainer.

When you’re in a bind and ask for help, if you’re sincere, the other person will definitely sense it. Don’t expect to get help by using a flattering tone in a moment of crisis. Experienced people all understand: the more unusually ingratiating someone’s tone is, the more that person is a wolf in sheep’s clothing — and the more vicious they turn once the mask drops.

Problem: var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.loadBytes(byteArr); return loader; After that, trace(loader.width,loader.height) gives (0,0), and as soon as you change the width and height via lo...

This article was reposted here after I saw it on http://riaoo.com/?p=1658; the original content comes from http://blogs.adobe.com/xwlin/2010/04/flash_player_101_-_adobe_max_2009.html and http://blogs.adobe.com/xwlin/2010/04/flash_player_101_-_adobe_max_2009_1.html Speaker: Lee Thomason (lthomaso@adobe.com) Translator: Lin Xiaowei (xwlin@adobe.com) PrefaceTime: the 21st of this month. Location: Beijing International Convention Center. Adobe is about to hold a two-day Flash Platform technology summit. I’ll have the honor of joining Ely Greenfield as co-speaker for the <> session, handling both the speaking and the translation. Ely Greenfield is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Apollo Integrated Runtime group, and he gave a superb talk on this topic at Adobe MAX 2007. I googled up a comment from a guy who attended the 2007 MAX conference about Ely himself and his talk: “I think Ely’s topic (Flash Player Internals) was the best of all the topics at MAX…” “Ely is that legendary guy who wrote most of the Flex Charting Framework in three days with his eyes closed”… The 2009 Adobe MAX still has a Flash Player Internals session, but the speaker is Lee Thomason (another hardcore veteran — Flash Player architect, nicknamed Player Guy, said to be the number one Flash Player guy). This is a very in-depth topic, and the talk moves fast: in one hour he covers as many aspects of the player architecture as he possibly can. Here I’ve summarized and translated the gist of his talk for your reference.

Topic: Adobe Platform Technology Summit Date: April 21–22, 2010 Location: 2nd Floor, Beijing International Convention Center Way down south, so I won’t be there in person. But watching online is ju...

“Adobe CS5 Master Collection (Official Win_Mac Release)” (Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection) CS5 [disc image]: http://www.verycd.com/topics/2814048 Also, “Adobe Production Premium Suite” (Adobe.Creative.Suite.5.Production.Premium) CS5 [archive] http://www.verycd.com/topics/2818598/ 51AS’s CS5 download page: http://www.51as.com/as3/as3-268.html This post is a personal collection and will be updated over time. ps: Piracy hurts the industry — free resources should only be used for testing and learning.

Yesterday I saw 【The Most Unbelievable Pencil Drawings】 on Weibo 38-year-old artist Paul Lung created these amazing pieces with a 2B pencil and A2 paper. He doesn’t use an eraser, and each drawing takes him roughly 60 hours. That’s seriously impressive! Some netizens have jokingly dubbed him the “King of 2B”!

My Weibohttp://t.qq.com/RhettGao — come take a look.

Blizzard Entertainment® Offers Players a Choice of Multiple Payment Models**【April 9, 2010, Taipei】**Blizzard Entertainment® announced today that the highly anticipated real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, in its Traditional Chinese version, is coming to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, priced at NT$1,950 (HK$488). After purchasing the game, players can join the newly updated Battle.net® for online matches at no additional cost. In addition to buying the product package, Blizzard Entertainment will also offer players a choice of other payment options so they can enjoy StarCraft II, with details of the relevant payment plans to be announced later.

Once upon a time there were two little kids, one named Guoguo and one named Zhuanzhuan. Because of an RP problem, Guoguo had been bitten by a wild dog when he was little, so there was a chunk missing from his face. Zhuanzhuan had been multi-talented since he was small, and since his foundation was rock solid, he lived up to the name “Zhuanzhuan.” Guoguo and Zhuanzhuan went to school together as kids and grew up together. Time flew by, and both Guoguo and Zhuanzhuan grew up. Because of his RP problem, even though his body grew up, the missing chunk of flesh was still gaping right there. By sheer chance, Zhuanzhuan ran into a talented woman named MM.

This article is reprinted from http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888 [Adobe would like me to make it clear that the opinions below are not the official views of the company and are entirely my own.] By now you have surely heard about the new iPhone 4.0 SDK language that appears to make creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages a violation of terms. Obviously Adobe is looking into this wording carefully so I will not comment any further until there is an official conclusion. [Sentence regarding Apple’s intentions redacted at request from Adobe]. This has nothing to do whatsoever with bringing the Flash player to Apple’s devices. That is a separate discussion entirely. What they are saying is that they won’t allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D.

I stumbled on Flash SEO tool — an SEO tool for Flash sites that helps get your Flash site crawled by web spiders. The project will soon be available for download on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/flashseotool/. Current features: HTML menus and submenus for web spiders Title, meta, keywords and description Friendly URLs Simple, automatic updates straight from your AS3 code Features coming later: Generating a Google sitemap Deep linking integration support Integration with Delicious, Twitter and friends Generating RSS

Problem: In some cases, Chrome doesn’t recognize document.documentElement.scrollTop — it returns a value in IE and FF, but it’s 0 in Chrome. Solution: In that case, use: document.documentElement.sc...