Alekkus ยป Empowering social media with Flash » Flash http://alekkus.com/blog flex consultant + social media specialist Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Adobe releases ActionScript 3.0 Library for Facebook http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/adobe-releases-as3-lib-for-facebook/ http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/adobe-releases-as3-lib-for-facebook/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:00:01 +0000 Alekkus http://alekkus.com/blog/?p=262 Adobe just released a client library that will aid developers to easily create Flash applications on Facebook. The mechanism involved is explained here. A get-started video tutorial is also available.

facebook and flash

]]> http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/adobe-releases-as3-lib-for-facebook/feed/ 0 An emerging trend – Augmented Reality (AR) http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/an-emerging-trend-augmented-reality-ar/ http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/an-emerging-trend-augmented-reality-ar/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:28:36 +0000 Alekkus http://alekkus.com/blog/?p=247 After checking out Cyber Figure Alice, I came across more products that use Augmented Reality. For instance, AR-powered baseball cards and GE’s Smart Grid. Let me know if you come across anymore.

For Flash enthusiasts, Saqoosha has released a library for enabling AR on the Flash platform dubbed the FLARToolkit. Ryan Stewart posted a FLARToolkit demo while attending Adobe Max in Japan earlier this year. Check it out : )


FLARToolKit Demo from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.

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To manually work with SWFObject in Flex Builder, replace the codes in “html-template/index.template.html” with the codes below. Then place the following files into the “html-template” folder.

  • swfobject.js
  • expressInstall.swf

The files are available here, or you can download the my source files to get those files.

[update] If you are using Flex SDK 3.1 and below, deep linking (more specifically, the BrowserManager class) may not work with SWFObject. If that happens, simply replace the codes in the “history.js” file with this

Demo:
SWFObject 2 (view source enabled)

Source Codes:


<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
<html lang="en">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="history/history.css" />
<title>${title}</title>
<script src="AC_OETags.js" language="javascript"></script>
<script src="history/history.js" language="javascript"></script>

<style>
body { margin: 0px; overflow:hidden }
</style>

</head>

<body scroll="no">
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

	var flashVars = {};

	var params = { play: "true",
				   loop: "false",
				   quality: "high",
				   wmode: "window",
				   allowscriptaccess: "sameDomain" };

	var attributes = { id: "${application}" };

	swfobject.embedSWF( "${swf}.swf",
						"divContent",
						"100%", "100%",
						"9.0.0",
						"expressInstall.swf",
						flashVars,
						params,
						attributes );
</script>

<div id="divContent">
	<h1>Alternative content</h1>
	<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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