Virtual Thoughts from eRoom-D

Category: Development

  • Flash animations in Flex ignoring their stop() actions?

    Remember that issue I had with getting Flash and Flex to play nice and give me events from Flash swfs loaded into a Flex application? Well, it’s the same project, same files, and with a new wrinkle. So we have the near final files from the client’s agency, and they look good, and perform all…

  • Getting Flex and Flash to play nice to each other, when they are not on the same server.

    Ok, so recently I needed to get a Flash swf into a Flex project and have the two talk to each other. Ok, fairly normal, I did it for a page navigation scroll bar that was AS2 and got it to talk with our Flex project and it works great. Problem though, the Flash swf…

  • The fate of my Flex accessibility project.

    Ok, so some of you might be wondering what happened to the accessibility project that I was going to be working on several months back. Well… It turns out that the major stumbling block here was the wmode tag that was being used. It needed to be set to wmode=opaque, and it was set to…

  • Accessibility in the Flash Player…

    I thought that I posted this earlier, but when I went back to reference it, it looks like it didn’t post. My research into accessibility for Flex custom components continues. This time I have something from Zeus Labs. It documents Josh Tynjala’s same efforts as mine in looking into accessibility. He’s discovered some limitations of…