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Flashplayer and AIR Benchmark Test app

Posted by Nate Chatellier on August 19th, 2008

I’m currently using the Flashplayer in more of an embedded system configuration. We’re evaluating multiple hardware configurations to decide what hardware to use and we’re also evaluating multiple version of the Flashplayer to decide which Flashplayer to use. So I made a quick open source test app to help with this evaluation. It allows you [...]

Automatic Flash X,Y Wireframe Preview

Posted by Nate Chatellier on March 14th, 2008

At the company I work for we use Functional Specification documents for any new Flash game that we make. Before any of the developers start any coding, the design team puts together a simple frame by frame Flash file to make it easy to see what things will look like in the various states of [...]

FlashDevelop 3 Beta review

Posted by Nate Chatellier on June 1st, 2007

On Tuesday (May 22, 2007), Mika Palmu, Philippe Elsass, and Nick Farina made an alpha release of the next installment of my favorite ActionScript editor, FlashDevelop. Somehow, I missed that they released the beta last night!
I tip my hat to the guys that made it. Considering it’s a free editor, it’s pretty darn good. I [...]

FLV Video Player Review

Posted by Nate Chatellier on May 17th, 2007

I had reason to run a downloaded flv file on my local system today. I tried three different players in the following order:

Flash Video Player by FlashGuru
Apollo Flash Video Player by Mutationevent.com,
FLV Player 1.3.3 by Martijn de Visser

The first two both installed just fine, but when I double clicked my .flv file, the respective player [...]

ig:Syntax Hiliter review

Posted by Nate Chatellier on April 24th, 2007

Well, it was fairly easy to setup with two minor complications. First, the installation instructions said extract the zip file into the wp-content/plugins directory, upload, and wallah. However, extracted folder is called "iG-Syntax Hiliter" which contains the folder "ig_syntax hiliter plugin." It is actually this second folder that needs to reside in the plugins folder [...]

Wordpress ActionScript 3 Syntax Highlighter

Posted by Nate Chatellier on April 24th, 2007

So I was going to continue with the AS 3 network programming discussion and realized I don't yet have any AS3 syntax highlighter setup. I'd hate to make you read code that didn't look pretty . I was considering FlashTextEditor, dp.SyntaxHighlighter, or ig:Syntax Hiliter, although I think I'm leaning toward the latter. Any Suggestions?

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