Tag Archives: flash

How To: Communicate Over Serial With Flash and Arduino

Posted on January 10, 2010 by John Pencola

Hi there! Back from the holidays with an update on getting started with Arduino and serial communication. In this case communication with the Adobe Flash player. For all the details please watch both Flash videos linked below. You can refer … Continue reading →

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A Utility for Cropping Display Objects in AS3

Posted on June 15, 2009 by John Pencola

Recently, a buddy of mine (Steve) and I were talking about different methods to effectively clip or crop off fully transparent areas on the outskirts of a Display Object. I think I understood the problem his original discussion presents, but … Continue reading →

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Uploading files with Flash Player? Read the fine print…

Posted on May 23, 2009 by John Pencola

Adobe has been disappointing me lately — first off are the Flash Player limitations I noticed on FileReference() and secondly by the lack of motivation and progress Adobe is making towards fixing these issues in the plugin. To elaborate, here … Continue reading →

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