Save XML and text files from Flash to your HD with AS3 and PHP

In this post I’ll show how to save a file from AS3 to your local HD. In another post I’ve explained how to load a file from HD to Flash. For a project I’ve been looking around for a decent solution to the problem of saving a text file (to be more precise XML file) …

Google Maps Multi-touch Actionscript Code [Update_3]

After I published my youtube video on the Google Maps multi-touch app I have had some demands for the source code of this Google Maps multi-touch Flash application. Hence, I have decided to make the source code of it publicly available on Google Code. You will find the sources on the mapstouch Google Code download …

Google Maps Multi-touch App

I’ve built a small Google Maps multi-touch app with Flex and Flash over the last days: It uses the Google Maps Flash API and the TUIO Actionscript classes and the Touchlib from the Nuigroup. The red stuff on the screen means that i am using the debug mode of Google Maps for Flash. That is …

A Multi-Touch Photo Browsing Application (with Source Code)

The Touchlib offers lots of Flash related possibilities to build your own multi-touch applications. There are even some demo applications included in the package in the code version of the Touchlib. Thus I took a demo photo application from them and replaced their Flickr images with mine and exchanged the whole mechanism for dragging and …

Embed Illustrator Vector Graphics In Actionscript 3

There’s a really cool article about the embedding of resources in Actionscript 3 in Keith Peters bit-101 blog. If you’re using his technique you can get rid of that awkward Flash GUI and just develop Flash applications with Eclipse in combination with the Flex Builder plugin by Adobe (currently you can obtain a free license …

Flash Actionscript 3.0 drawString equivalent [Update]

I’m coming from the Java world where you could ‘just’ draw Strings. However, in Flash it’s not as easy to actually draw a String on the screen. For that purpose I use following code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 …