I have been working with a component that loads FLV video and SWF animations. The component is sometimes CPU intensive because of the FLV video and SWF animations used. The custom media controller is created in both Flex and Flash (MTASC and Eclipse). The flash version was used in many more custom integration situations. One such case was a floating iframe/div over a existing web site. We started testing the CPU usage using Windows...

I am partaking in the Adobe Developer Week. I choose to learn about “Building Killer Desktop RIAs: Adobes Next Generation Technology”, which is about the Apollo project. Apollo project brings web development to a point where you can create for the web and desktop. Apollo will allow developers to leverage web development skill sets like Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax, CSS, Javascript, and PDF to create desktop applications. Supported OS...

I have been quite busy with things going on at work and do not have alot of time to frequent FlexCoders. I just noticed a change to the yahoo groups. If you click on a message and the message is part of a thread there is now a “Expand Messages” link. It expands all the messages in the thread on one page. This saves you from clicking back and forth through the thread to read all the messages. I used to just open up all the...

I had trouble installing Flash Player 9 (ActiveX version) into Internet Explorer. This is the process I followed to fix the issue. 1. Download latest uninstaller from labs.adobe.com. (I had some old ones on my comp and they didn’t work). 2. Close all Internet Explorer browsers. 3. Install Flash Player 9 from labs.adobe.com. And it should work now. It sounds simple but I and others have had issues with installing the Flash Player 9...

I have 2 Flex applications. The first application (swf1) loads the other application (swf2). “swf1″ has an embedded image inside it, when I try and access the embeded image in “swf2″ nothing happens. The best way to explain it is with some sample code (source can be found here): swf1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application...

Thanks to Xavi Beumaia’s post about his updates to his AMF0 Flex2B3 class I have been able to update the last part of the RemoteObjectAMF0 class. I was missing the functionality to pass along the parameters to the function call, regardless of how many parameters where present. Before I just had hard coded it to 3. I have also updated some message handling on the Fault event. I believe now its ready for some testing and real usage. If...