Note: Just found about about the Flickr deal, it got moved to http://api.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml I must have missed Flickr shutting down their crossdomain.xml, here is a post by Chris Shiflett. I found the issue when looking at some old Flex Flickr mashup I wrote a while back and realized it was coming back with a security error. Then I noticed the http://flickr.com/crossdomain.xml is gone. Just recently youtube.com changed their...

Patrick Mineault has created an alpha update of AMFPHP that now supports AMF3. He is looking for people to test it out. To help with this I have created two simple examples that I have running live on a PHP4/Apache server, as well as have tested on a PHP5/Windows box. Basic Example Return Array of VO’s Example You can download the source for both examples by right clicking on the apps or get it here. Note: To make the amfphp 1.9 alpha...

UPDATE: see comments, the skin class works with any UIComponent and checks for many exceptions of different backgroundImage style values. Note backgroundImage values of embedded images only work, embedded SWF’s with symbol names throws an error. I created a RepeatingImage component last month that works nicely for applying repeating images any where in your Flex application. But most repeating image usages are typical implemented as...

I downloaded the latest SDK of Flex to try out coding Flex in Ubuntu (6.06). Here are the basic steps to try it out: Download Flex 2 SDK for linux Extract package to a directory (/home/renaun/Desktop/flexsdk/) Create simple mxml file called helloworld.mxml Run the following command: >/home/renaun/Desktop/flexsdk/bin/mxmlc -o helloworld.swf helloworld.mxml At this point I got a segmentation fault. Looking at the java version that comes with...

There was a question on the FlashMedia mailing list about how to get id3 info from a NetStream with AS3 code. It is actually just like AS2 with some quirks to watch out for. The first is the supported ID3 tags: About supported versions of ID3 tags Flash Media Server supports playback of ID3 text tags in UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1 formats and supports ID3 versions 1.0, 2.3, and 2.4. Only tags that contain text data are supported, such as...