AS3GIF lets Flash play animated GIF files, and implements GIF encoding in ActionScript 3. Introduction as3gif download (Google Code) Bookmarking it here for easy lookup.

Spotted a GTween AS3 library, thought I’d share it. GTween is a compact but quite robust AS3 library developed by Grant Skinner. It can be used to implement tweens, animations, and gradients. It cu...

The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is out. In addition to AIR 1.5 being released today, the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is also being released. This book will be an essential resource for anyone doing AIR development - as it also includes the new AIR 1.5 features. This book is an excellent resource for beginners and advanced AIR developers alike. If you have never touched AIR, this book can certainly get you started. In addition, we cover all development angles on this: Flash, Flex, and HTML / JavaScript.

I came across an online image-editing RIA on Halley‘s blog. MediaCreator alpha1 is an online multimedia authoring app built in Flash — a prototype along the lines of scrapblog. Some basic functionality is already in place: it lets users edit images, text and vector graphics online, and add masks, borders and backgrounds.

Who will save me? Error reading ByteArray from amfphp in Flash Related search phrases: Sending a ByteArray from AMFPHP to Flash fails / AMF can’t send a ByteArray to AS3 / ByteArray can’t be remoted to Flash TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Object@******* to flash.utils.ByteArray. / TypeError: Error #1034: 强制转换类型失败:无法将 Object@*******转换为 flash.utils.ByteArray It happens with AS3 Flash remoting, not with Flex remoting.

Ever since I added the minimize-to-tray feature last time, I’ve been hearing about one “freak-out” paranormal event after another — you type in your own username and password, and the login info th...

Fanfou 1.7 released, sharing part of the code for the newly added minimize-to-system-tray feature:

Reflection: I was too lazy — too lazy to check the official docs for how to minimize to the tray. As it turns out, AIR had this designed in all along. See the official AIR document DEV_GUIDE_FLASH, <Chapter 13: Taskbar icons>. Let me study it now, and put together a Chinese doc along the way to atone. Overview: About taskbar iconsMany operating systems provide a taskbar where applications can display a small icon representing themselves. ADOBE AIR exposes an interface for interacting with an application’s taskbar icon through the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon property. AIR creates the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon object automatically. The type of this object is either SystemTrayIcon or DockIcon, depending on the operating system.

Supports minimizing to the system tray: clicking the minimize button no longer takes up space in the taskbar — it minimizes to the system tray instead. Thanks for your support. Online install URL C...

I got drawn in by PV3D and decided to give it a try from scratch. I’m recording the download and installation process here. A thought: there really isn’t much material on this out there. Install TortoiseSVN: Go to the page http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads Download the appropriate TortoiseSVN and install it (a reboot is required).