AS3 Lightweight TouchList

You’re free to define your list-items with the only restriction that they subclass DisplayObject. Large lists only ever instantiate enough list-items to fill the visible scroll-area, and recycle pooled objects.

OSMF + PHP Gateway

If you’re wondering why OSMF isn’t loading audio from your PHP gateway, here’s why.

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MultiKeyMaster – Simultaneous AS3 Keyboard Events

A lightweight class for simultaneous key events, such as pressing “shift +”, or “command s”.

Harp Instrument made with Flash on Android

Adobe sent out an invitation to participate in the AIR for Android prerelease, and having already built the iPhone harp instrument with Flash’s iphone-packager, I decided to flip it to Android.

MultiTouch Swipe Event for Flash

The SWIPE_EVENT passes e.numTouchPoint, which is the number of touch-points (fingers) onscreen during the swipe, for example; allowing you to ignore 1-finger swipes, and respond differently for 2-finger swipes, and so on. The SWIPE_EVENT also passes e.time, which is the time taken to complete the swipe, for example; allowing you to tween a page-flip timed [...]

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Adobe & Google Strengthening their Partnership

Whoa… browser plugins are evolving, Flash is being integrated into the browser. Links to the announcements below… “Improving the traditional browser plug-in model will make it possible for plug-ins to be just as fast, stable, and secure as the browser’s HTML and JavaScript engines. Over time this will enable HTML, Flash, and other plug-ins to [...]

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iWebTunes – Web MP3 Player

A clean web-based MP3 player based on the OSMF framework, with a familiar look & feel.

QuickImage – OSMF

QuickImage is a simple class that wraps OSMF objects to simplify external image loading, and adding to the display list, similar to HTML’s img tag. You can either pass the URL in the constructor, setter, or load method. Nice & easy. import com.leefernandes.media.QuickImage; var img:QuickImage = new QuickImage(); img.url = ‘http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/images/Title.gif’ img.load(); addChild(img); download: http://blog.leefernandes.com/share/QuickImage.zip [...]

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ZendAMF Serialization Patch

In August I posted an issue on the Zend Tracker in regards to a noticeable bottleneck with serialization. ZendAMF performs at least 5x slower than AMFPHP, which is jarring when retrieving a high volume of rows. Many just shrugged it off and stayed with AMFPHP on more demanding data-retrieval projects. Today Mark Reidenbach contributed a [...]