Archive for the 'Flash' Tag

Photoshop Express

Well, looks like Adobe has pulled another one out of the bag with Photoshop Express, a web-based Flash application that lets you colour adjust, retouch and add effects to your photographs without installing anything.
The interface is really easy to use and it looks as though this is aimed at your average non-designer web user, with […]

Web award winners @ SXSW 2008

So SXSW 2008 is on at the moment. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already since I attended last years Interactive festival. How time flies and all that.
So the web awards winners have been announced. The very talented mob at Preloaded took out the game category as well as best of show with […]

Re-thinking Flash…

The very funny Flash Website Flowchart (Should I make a Flash site?) I recently linked to (”elsewhere”) featured an interesting discussion in the comments that made me think about Flash again - when is it best to use Flash, and if you do, how do you do it right?
Generally speaking, I’ve been one to […]

Flash support for CSS

While recently working with Flash to produce wireframes, I found out Flash MX 2004 has support for reading external CSS files. I’ve known about the TextFormat object as a way of formatting text fields in Flash for some time, but I never knew that you could just read in an external CSS file to […]

Memory Problems in Flash MX 2004

I’ve just encountered an annoying problem / bug / feature with Flash MX 2004 in its handling of FLA files with large libraries. Under Windows XP, this problem rears its ugly head with the somewhat mistifying error message of:
“There is not enough memory to open this scene. Your document is not damaged and may safely […]