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If you have your assets on Amazon S3 and are using SWFObject you might run into SecurityError: Error #2060:

This is two parts, one you need to get your
allowscriptaccess = "always" since if your serving the html from http://www.yoursite.com and the assets are coming from a different domain e.g. http://yourcdn.amazons3.com you need to allow them to talk to each other.

and if you are using SWFObject with dynamic publishing make sure that flash actually gets that! as it has to go through the magic and mystery of javascript.

So here's the solution, this one baffles me but whatever.

GOOD VERBOSE:
var params = {};
params.allowscriptaccess = "always";
params.menu = false;

BAD INLINE
var params = {allowscriptaccess = "always", menu="false"};

I found this out by using the awesome SWFObject Generator application, then contrasting to what we had coded.

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Flash ReferenceError: Error #1069: SOLUTION

January 6, 2010

This means that you have a typo someplace, it’s basically the equivalent of a web 404 error on your code, even if the code may be potentially valid from the scripting environments perspective.
BAD CODE:
object[someproperty];
GOOD CODE
object(someproperty); like in getterFunction(someproperty);
In our case this happened when changing direct access to a associative array into a [...]

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Setup and Develop multi-touch Flash and AIR on the Dell XT2 with N-trig drivers

January 4, 2010

You know you’ve been drooling to playing with multi-touch apps at home, now you can with commodity hardware.
In this post we’ll cover 3 things

how to get multi-touch properly setup on the gorgeous Dell XT2 Tablet PC
play with some multitouch apps written in Adobe AIR Runtime 2.0
get your Flash or Flex setup to start [...]

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Javascript: form submit is not a function SOLUTION

October 17, 2009

Working on some rich form in Flash  that integrates in with Aweber via ExternalInterface and javascript, what’s odd is worked fine, after updating, ran into that odd error, alerting showed that I was talking to the form, but calling submit function failed.
Solution was to rename the submit button in that form to submit2 as [...]

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Optimized XOR Cipher Encryption in ActionScript 3

October 11, 2009

Been wanting to try implementing a XOR cipher for awhile,   a very simple cheap to implment encryption, that actually has a rich history dates back  to paper and teletype and world war II (as a one-time pad).
It can be used for anything that can be encoded into a string, be it across the wire, [...]

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AdobeMax and FITC Unconference Day1 Review, two good conferences at the same time and place.

October 6, 2009

Despite missing the morning yesterday at AdobeMax, it was an awesome day. I’m really blown away by how much the community has grown and changed.
There were somewhere between 200-300 in the room on multitouch with Flash.  A decade ago multitouch was still in the elite halls of academia, now it’s on the border of being [...]

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AdobeMax2009: Flash CS5 outputs iphone apps!!!! (holy shit!)

October 5, 2009

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
The forthcoming beta of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 incorporates the ability to create an iPhone application. You have access to nearly all the AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 APIs. For example, you can use APIs such as RTMP, Remote Shared Objects, and AMF as well as AIR APIs like SQLite and filesystem access. For [...]

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AdobeMax: Flash Player 10.1…is awesome, just released!

October 5, 2009

There is a huge amount of new stuff in the just released on the labs, I assume will be in the AdobeMax presentations.
Here’s the outline of new features (bolded are my favorites)

Support for Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm webOS , and Symbian S60
Support Windows7 and OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Global error handler
Globalization [...]

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TIP: Wrangle those Clients by Run Multiple Skype Accounts with a single line “/secondary”

October 1, 2009

One of the best ways to be productive is to manage your communications, including sandboxing personal from work , or client to client-especially when your work is filled with the rapid turnover of contractors.  It’s critical so you can spend time with friends without being distracted by contractors, and vice versa.
Skype is a great [...]

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