In addition to all new video capabilities, the recent 9.0.115 release of the Flash Player contains an update to the security policy framework that I haven’t seen much press about. I guess the nickname crossdomain smackdown just wasn’t sexy enough compared to moviestar. I discovered the new framework by accident when the following message showed […]
new and exciting security policy settings in flash moviestar
December 6th, 2007
how to impress your friends by taking an image snapshot of a flash movie and automatically uploading the jpg to a server in three easy steps
October 19th, 2007
The title for this recipe is a little long, but the use case is straightforward: I want to capture the visual appearance of a movieclip, encode it as a jpg, and then upload it to my server without any user interaction I came to this problem while writing AsUnit tests for my Flash Actionscript 3 […]
extending the flash videoplayer class to load the crossdomain.xml file on demand
September 26th, 2007
I’ve been doing lots of Flash video streaming work using ActionScript 3 and I’ve found a nice balance between using the built-in Flash video components and doing my own thing to achieve the exact look and feel that I want. The new as3 version of FLVPlayback has some great features in it, including sophisticated connection […]
