Archive for October, 2009

RED5 vs FMS – Part 1

Red5 and FMS features in comparison Following are few of the functions and properties of RED5 and FMS in comparison. In most of the aspects you will find Red5 to be slightly more complicated but far more powerful than Flash Media Server. The Red5 Team is working on bring around SSAS (Server side actionscript) to [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: General, Red5, RTMP  33 Comments

Getting the RGB value of a MovieClip in as3

Its pretty annoying when something changes, and you cannot do the things you could previously the way you know. But some things change for the better Its pretty common to wanting to know the RGB value of a movie clip at runtime. This could be for a coloring program that you are building or a [...]

October 13, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Actionscript 3.0, General  14 Comments

Stage delays to initialize in IE browsers in as3

A very common issue that i have faced over last year is that codes related to stage object of the as3 document class seems to be null when application initializes in browser. This problem is noticeable only in the IE browsers. Note that flash player is a different version for IE Browsers and different for [...]

October 12, 2009   Posted in: Actionscript 3.0, General  2 Comments

SharedObjects in actionscript 3

Shared objects or flash cookies as you can  call them are the official way to store data at client side.  Shared objects are like html cookies, but better in terms of capacity and persistence. Information stores in shared objects (.so) files does not get cleared when you clear browser cache / history data. shared objects can [...]

October 10, 2009   Posted in: Actionscript 3.0, General  31 Comments


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