Posts Tagged ‘Flash’
Compressed, High-Performing Animations in Flash
Monday, November 16th, 2009Multimedia applications often have interactive elements based on video. The Flash Video data used for such scenes is compressed but processor intensive. I discuss a solution that decompresses the data on the client side, in order to enhance display performance.
ActionScript Performance Testing
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Unlike Javascript, ActionScript usually runs on the same engine (the AVM). This makes specific performance tests worthwhile, in order to compare different code execution speeds. I start a Wiki, where I document such tests and display my results.
Upcoming Flash Platform Goodness
Friday, December 5th, 2008Adobe presented new Flash related products at Adobe Max in Milan. Three favorites of mine are Flex 4, BlazeDS for .Net, and the RTMFP protocol. Based on the announcements, I make some predictions for the future of the Flash platform.
Debugging in Flash Revisited
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008An update to my previous post about debugging in Flash. I introduce the Flash Tracer Firefox plugin, and describe why it’s better than the formerly used Javascript-Firebug combo.
How Descriptive Variable Names Affect a SWF’s File Size
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A create a brief test to compare the file size overhead of long variable names to short ones, and conclude that descriptive code is worth more than the reduced file size.
SWF WMODE Transparency Hell
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008I have been having trouble with the WMODE=”transparent” embed setting in combination with Firefox. What I wanted to do was show a SWF on top of some HTML with the background set to transparent. Turns out that it’s just not possible in Firefox.
1001 Ways to Debug in Flash
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008I have been looking around at all the different ways to debug content when developing Flash applications. The Flex folks already have a decent way of doing this, since the debug version of the Flash player communicates everything back to the Flexbuilder IDE. In Flash it’s not that easy. As soon as the SWF is being run from within a browser all those Trace statements don’t get through anymore.
