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Adobe AIR Non-Transparent Window Bugs Part 2: Maximize

Maximized AIR windows on Windows XP are positioned at -4,-4 and the width and height add 8 pixels to compensate. On Windows 7, this is doubled, so the position is -8,-8 and the width and height add 16...

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Adobe AIR Non-Transparent Window Bugs Part 3: Native Controls Showing Up

UPDATE: This has been fixed in AIR 2.5. In my previous post, I showed how sometimes Windows would draw native controls on top of your non-transparent windows, as pictured here: However, I could not...

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Socket.timeout property doesn't work

AS3's Socket class has a public property called timeout, and it doesn't work. The default value of timeout is 20000 milliseconds. Setting timeout to any other value doesn't change the 20000 millisecond...

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Setting up FDT to look and behave like FlashDevelop

If you are moving to FDT from FlashDevelop and want FDT to look and behave more closely to FlashDevelop, here's what you need to do. Open Window > Preferences. Under FDT > Editor > Code Assist...

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Apple's Behavior Shouldn't Be A Surprise To Anyone…

Read the following and consider its accuracy at analyzing the recent actions and tone Apple has taken. Apple has always insisted on having a hardware monopoly, except for a brief period in the...

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Flash CS5 TLF Engine Causes Errors With Loaded SWFs

I have discovered an issue with Flash CS5 and a TLF TextField in a loaded swf. If you use TLF Engine in a loaded swf, you cannot call a public function of a document class (runtime error function...

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Help Japan

Like many people I know, I am shocked by the disaster unfolding in Japan. Japan is an amazing country and while the Japanese people are some of the most resilient on earth, the scope of this disaster...

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Adobe AIR: Avoiding SQL Recursion Lockups

Adobe AIR has very easy integration with SQLite. And because of this ease, there is likeihood of hitting a little-known limitation with SQLite recursion which can cause your application to lock up....

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Adobe AIR EncryptedLocalStore Folder Paths

If you've ever gone searching for these on the web, you know it's a royal pain. Here they all are in one convenient place. Windows 7/Vista Application Data C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\[APP_ID]...

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Detecting operating system and browser with CSS

As many web developers know, you cannot detect OS and browser in CSS. But this is definitely needed because of little idiosyncrasies in layout, especially with fonts. For example, on OSX Firefox,...

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Learning Japanese using Fluent Forever

I’ve recently decided to kick my Japanese study into high gear with Gabriel Wyner’s book “Fluent Forever“. I discovered it through Tim Ferris’s blog. Gabe’s approach is novel in that instead of how...

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SoundCloud Javascript SDK 2.0 is here but without documentation

SoundCloud’s deadline for switching to their Javascript SDK 2.0 is July 1st, 2015. Unfortunately, as of today, June 3nd, 2015, the new Javascript streaming SDK remains undocumented and has a few...

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