Monthly Archives: October 2006

Passing Parameters with Flash’s Delegate Class

By Alastair | October 4, 2006

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I was working on getting a dynamic menu to scroll just now that had two functions one for scrolling up and one for scrolling down. Each function was called by Flash’s Delegate class and was about 15 lines long.
However, only one line of each function was [...]

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 7 Comments

Scale Flash Text When Users Change Their Browser Preferences

By Alastair | October 4, 2006

Aral Balkan has the details and links
Things kicked off on Sunday, when Niqui Merret posted a simple and generic solution for making Flash movies scale when users change their browser text size preferences. This is a great solution because it is very simple to implement and works with existing Flash movies.

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Calling All Flex/Flash and Ruby on Rails Developers

By Alastair | October 2, 2006

We have a ton of work right now and are looking for freelance Rails and Flex/Flash developers.
I’d prefer that you have a computer science/software engineering background but it’s not mandatory (I’m a self taught programmer so I know it’s possible).
One project is a very large ecommerce store (large in the number of products) and the [...]

Posted in Flash, Flex, Ruby on Rails, Shameless Self Promotion | 1 Comment

Convert Images with Flex and Ruby on Rails

By Alastair | October 2, 2006

flexonrails.net has an example of a Flex and Rails image converter that uses Rmagick to convert images into numerous file formats (jpg, png, bmp, gif, pdf, eps). You can upload multiple files, convert them, and then download the converted files in a zip file, there’s also a progress bar for the upload and download progress.
I [...]

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