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Tracking PDF with Google Analytics (with embedded Flash)

March 10th, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Flash

Did you ever want to let your PDF files track themselves on their own?  Without using the download link from your site?

Well, it’s very easy todo when you use Flash with the Google Analytics AS3 API. We will embed an invisible Flash object into your PDF. So the flash object will More …

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QR Code Reader AS3

February 12th, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Mobile

Discovered this one just today, straight from Japan ;) Another great new piece of the Spark Actionscript Library. The QRCodeReader classes! Check it out Flash Mobile application developers! Now you can integrate your own QR reader into your AS3 mobile application.

Let’s hope this creates another big push to the markets, so this technology really get’s as common as a price tag on a product in your local supermarket.

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Upload any file from Flex with AMFPHP

January 22nd, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Flex

This is so easy. I made a succesful AMFPHP multi file upload wich I’m using in my new release of the Rive.be CMS (clear your browser cache), by using this as a base. You can read all about it at Gertons’s blog (single file upload) and the Flex{er} blog (his multi file example didn’t work). So in the end if you throw these 2 examples together (merge them somehow) you should end up with a working solution.

Basically you have enough with these 2 snippets to upload any file you wish to a AMFPHP backend. More …

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Google Analytics Campaign Tracking For Adobe Flash

January 14th, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Flash, Tips&Tricks

Campaigning for your blog, everyone is doing it in a way. Posting your links on Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. But how about really tracking them specifically?

It’s turned on by default in your Google Analytics account. So why leave those table/results empty? Only thing you should do is add some extra variables to your URL’s.

See Feedburner for example: More …

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Twist and Bend Away3D with AS3Dmod

January 10th, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Flash

Playing arround with AS3Dmod for is fun! I’ve used the “Twist” and “Bend” modifiers for the Rive.be Productbox. For the Twist I had to move the centerpoint to the bottom of the box. By using a Vector3D with an y property, half the value of the height of the productbox.

Now there’s at least some movement on the site while creating the rest of www.rive.be.

I’ve tried using the “Tape” modifier too but I couldn’t get it to expand only the middle of the box. It always seemed to start from the top. Maybe someone knows how to get this done? using the ’setFalloff(0, 1)’ function with all kinds of numbers didn’t seem to do what I want.

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Flash Platform Ditribution Service Demo

January 7th, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Flash, Flex

After I implemented the Flash Platform Ditribution Service into my Flex 4 web application at the Rive.be CMS Share Page. I decided to try it on to a pure Actionscript 3 project. Visit http://www.rive.be and click the Share button in the bottom right side of your screen.

Everything works out just great (try it out):

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How a Flash Application becomes Facebook Application

January 7th, 2010 Filed under: AS3, Flash, Web

In my previous post you saw how to “share” your flash applications into several platforms by using the Flash Platform Distribution Service. But one of those was Facebook.

Now there’s a different way too. You can really “embed” your application within it’s own page. A Facebook Application such as the Rive.be Widget (and click “Add to my Page”). In real, it is just a PHP file (containg HTML with Flash) embedded within an iFrame into Facebook. The application itself is still loaded from your own hosting.

Now you can pass trough the persons firstname, More …

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Switch from PureMvc to Mate for Flex development (ToDoList 2010)

November 19th, 2009 Filed under: AS3, Flex, Tips&Tricks

110208_1806_mateflexfr1There is just so much setting up to do with PureMVC, and enough is enough. Every time again, and again…The constants, the viewComponent wrapper, listNotificationInterests, handleNotification, there’s tons of stuff to do when setting up a Mediator.

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Pre-alpha version Rive.be web showcase

November 18th, 2009 Filed under: AS3, Flash, Web

boxriveI made this +/-1 year ago, haven’t touched it since. Imagine that! Now why did I decide to throw this online? It’s barely finished and it contains tons of bugs? The reason is my homepage didn’t change in the past 3 years. Better something in stead of nothing.

(+181 AS3 classes, JiglibFlash 3d physics, papervision3d, google analytics, amfphp, puremvc, design, localisation, swfaddress, etc.)

Everything started with a another great new idea for my web showcase. “An interactive 3d boardgame which takes you trough my professional career.

But, as always, during the development process, I kept pushing in more and more new features/technologies/design changes…  pushing the deployment date further and further, until it fell off the face of the earth.

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My summary about Flash Player 10.1 hardware acceleration

November 17th, 2009 Filed under: AS3, Flash, Mobile, Tips&Tricks

renderfarmAs I was reading the article about Flash Player 10.1 hardware acceleration for video and graphics, this is what I marked as important to myself, when developing for Flash player 10.1.

So in general I quote:

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