This isn't a tutorial, but I figured it may still be of interest to some. Below is a sample image manipulation application I created a couple years ago while trying to get a handle on bitwise operators. The bitmap data is manipulated in various ways depending on which button you select. Here's a quick breakdown of what each button does: (more...)

It's been a while since I’ve touched on JSFL, but recently I found myself diving into it again for a project at work and decided to share a method for updating the publish settings of an .fla file using JSFL. When I initially set out to do this, I wasn't sure where to begin and after a bit of googling, I found a lot of others who had run into the same problem, but a simple solution wasn't readily available. (more...)

I've been pretty busy recently with building a new mobile app that is now nearing completion. I wanted to make use of AIR 2.7 because it has been shown to be much faster on iOS devices than the previous packager. However, as noted in the article, it hasn't yet been implemented in any official tools and is only available via the command line. That wasn't going to cut it for what I needed to do so I went digging around the net with google and came across this post. This was exactly what I was looking for!
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