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Copy TextField text to System clipboard | Actionscript (AS2 + AS3) Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 12 November 2008
Overview Integrating the clipboard of the operating system with your flash projects is sometimes essential. It’s a very simple and boils down to one basic method… System.setClipboard(). I’ve found a couple other things help the user experience though, such as selecting the text that gets copied and giving the user some sort of feedback to let [...]
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Google Indexes SWFs and external content | Fleximagically Searchable | Ryan Stewart’s Flex SEO Contest

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 July 2008
Ryan has announced a contest to investigate how Google is actually crawling swfs. He introduced the term “fleximagically searchable” to be included in external content, which is then loaded into the Flex swf. Hoping that google will read the external source file through the swf. Also testing how this shows up in the search results. [...]
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StomperNet’s Scrutinizer Update v1.0

By Evan Mullins | Published: 16 June 2008
StomperNet’s Scrutinizer has recieved some updates! New help documentation Keyboard Shortcut Functionality saving a screenshot bookmarking a page toggling the visualization toggle auto-zoom Aesthetic improvements Performance optimizations Improved auto-update. If you’re wondering what the heck StomperNet’s Scrutinizer is: What is it? The Scrutinizer is a web browser, based upon the Adobe AIR toolkit and the WebKit browser, that offers a simulation of the human visual system. [...]
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Stomper Scrutinizer Browser AIR App

By Evan Mullins | Published: 2 April 2008
Software for viewing websites through a simulated fovea vision. Since not everyone could set-up, let alone afford a real eye-tracker. This software uses the mouse pointer as the user’s focal point, or foveal view. It blurs everything except where your focal point (the mouse) is. It is helpful because it forces you to re-think web [...]
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Get Current URL and Query String Parameters to Flash | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 20 March 2008
Overview This tutorial / how to / example will show how to get the current url from the browser to flash, and even how to get the query string parameters from the url into actionscript using ExternalInterface. It has been a dilemma for many people to get this information into flash across browsers and without having to [...]
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StomperNet Scrutinizer Update | Features include Bookmarking, Screenshots & Loader

By Evan Mullins | Published: 10 March 2008
Scrutinizer is constantly being updated and enhanced and with the launch of Adobe AIR 1.0 is easier than ever to install! It now supports bookmarking, capturing and saving screenshots and displays progress as pages load. With even more to come soon! Go check it out at StomperNet’s public site for free download! Here’s some images to show off scrutinizer! Watching [...]
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FLEX | 360 Atlanta | Day 3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 27 February 2008
From the community… people I saw quickly but didn’t get to attend their session: Renaun showed off his voip app Pacifica,  Zach from Yahoo showing some things available with Yahoo Maps AS3 API, Adam talking about Merapi where you can access Java from AIR apps and Joe showed us some awesome music app he’s working on, [...]
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FLEX | 360 Atlanta | Day 2

By Evan Mullins | Published: 26 February 2008
Johnny Boursiquot – AIR Infrastructure to manage licensing maintenance and monetization of AIR apps This is important information as more and more apps ar looking at using AIR to make apps. Discussion on how he’s deployed for large corporations including Avaya, Honeywell, Seagate and others. We need to be thinking about how to license the [...]
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