February 4th, 2009

I have to confess I didn’t know about great function enterDebugger() in flash.debugger package. If you ever want to have conditional breakpoint you can do it programatically. Just add this statement to you code and debuger will stop as it there would be normal breakpoint. So you can use it in IF statement and call it just when some conditions are met. I think I will use this function a lot from now on 
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February 1st, 2009
Yesterday, I’ve posted about interesting AS3 Class InteractivePNG, and now I’m adding new addition for solving other problem with transparent Bitmaps. If you have transparent bitmap with whitespace around image and you want to crop whitespace around “real” image, you can use this function…
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January 31st, 2009
I working on some game editors for my old game engine (not finished) to show people something what I have and let people convince me maybe to continue (fallenswordsgame.com) and there are lot of PNG assets. If I got on stage many PNG images there is problem with selection of correct one, because in AS3 there are MouseEvent events even on transparent pixels and that’s problem. I have tried search if someone did great job on some workaround and I have found really great AS3 class called InteractivePNG.
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October 10th, 2008
WTF? I don’t know what’s wrong, and if this is a bug or anything, but I came across interesting issue. Let me first tell, that it seems it’s bug on Windows, or maybe just my Windows really do not know, I need you to help me. I need your test to let me [...]
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September 17th, 2008

If you are going on FlashOnTheBeach to Brighton this year, you can meet me there and say hello. Maybe beer will be good at the evening If you will look for Flexets guys (t-shirt with Flexets logo) I know you will find me. It’s always great to see my readers and subscribers. I’m [...]
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August 28th, 2008
Finally I’ve found good Wordpress plugin for syntax highligting of ActionScript 3 and MXML. Syntax is very easy (who would tell that ) with only 2 settings: lang, line (from which line should code starts). So from today I can support both my favourite languages on my blog (i’ve changed already my last 3 [...]
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August 25th, 2008
I’m not PHP or MySQL guru, but from time to time I need test some product which I will use on live server and till now on the best 1-click installation of Apache, PHP and MySQL for me is WampServer. Installation takes few moments and that’s all. You can just start all services with one [...]
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August 3rd, 2008
In my latest project I need generate Excel .xls file from Flex. Because in Flex or Flash there is no support for such generation, I’ve to do it manually and I want to share this knowledge with all of you in this new tutorial serie. Because content of Excel file can vary this will be [...]
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August 2nd, 2008
I want to everyone know that I’m aggregated by RIA.Alltop.com, so in RIA category of AllTop.com.
For all AllTop.com visitors, this is site is about Flex, AIR and Flash Development and news from RIA World. I hope you will find here information you need for you, or just some exciting news. I will do my best [...]
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August 1st, 2008
I would like to thanks to Daniel Taborga and Scott Janousek to resubmit my changes to Adobe Feeds (MXNA).
As you can see I have move my blog to http://www.franto.com from previous URL (http://www.franto.com/blog2 or http://blog.franto.com) because of SEO problems If you have bookmarked my blog, please update your bookmarks to http://www.franto.com and my RSS [...]
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