Republic of Code http://www.republicofcode.com Tutorials and More. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 What Does Chrome OS Mean for Flash http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/gcPIOvjsp3Y/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/20/what-does-chrome-os-mean-for-flash/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:11:10 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2280 Google Chrome OS Google uncovered a lot of details yesterday about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS. This operating system is based on the the Google Chrome browser and will not have any native applications at all, and even though Adobe is an official partner of Google Chrome OS, this means that Adobe AIR will NOT be supported.

However, in its demo, Google showed how Flash for delivering the gaming experience on Chrome OS – which can obviously be done on any other browser as well. That is not to say that Flash will be the ONLY solution for creating applications and games on Google Chrome as many rich web applications, including these made by Google, are written in AJAX (which may or may not include Flash elements).

You can learn more about Google Chrome OS from Google’s official blog.


]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/20/what-does-chrome-os-mean-for-flash/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/20/what-does-chrome-os-mean-for-flash/ Tutorial: Using setInterval in ActionScript 3.0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/O0LD49hMaug/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/20/tutorial-using-setinterval-in-actionscript-3-0/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:08:23 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2277 AS3: setInterval() Learn a much more simpler method for executing your ActionScript 3.0 code repeatedly over specified time intervals using the setInterval() method by reading our tutorial on this topic.


]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/20/tutorial-using-setinterval-in-actionscript-3-0/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/20/tutorial-using-setinterval-in-actionscript-3-0/ Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 Betas Released http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/m916B3-spFM/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/17/adobe-air-2-and-flash-player-10-1-betas-released/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:11 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2273 Adobe Air 2.0 Beta Adobe released today the beta editions of Adobe Air 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1, the next two major releases for both technologies. The most major feature added to both is the support for multi-touch input – which, however, cannot be used without having a device that support multi-touch such HP TouchSmart or a Dell Latitude XT2 running Windows 7. The FAQs say that you should be able to interact with the gestures of the multi-touch pads of Macbook Pros, but I couldn’t get mine to work with the samples available online.

Other additions to AIR 2.0 include support for the detection of mass storage devices, access to raw microphone data, the ability to open a file with its default application and other new improvements. These editions are going to help increase the popularity of using the Adobe AIR platform for creating cross-platform desktop applications with online functionality.

The new release of Flash Player 10.1 is meant to be the first step for creating a consistent Flash experience across desktop and mobile platforms, however, the beta for this edition of the player is now only available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. Though not available for mobile phones yet, but this player should be the one to properly allow the use of AS3 on mobile devices.

You can check out the demos by visiting the links above and check out sample movies to showcase the capability of the new players. I test Adobe AIR 2.0 on my Macbook Pro and it seems to work just fine.


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According to Comscore there are more than 14 million blackberry devices out there and Adobe believes this to be a serious market to tap into.

In addition to the announcement of the full Flash Player, Adobe also announced its intention to Adobe Air and Flex Mobile platform for Blackberry, making RIM the first hardware manufacturer to publicly announce its support of these two new mobile technologies from Adobe.

You can learn more about this announcement at the official Flash Mobile Blog.


]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/12/adobe-flash-blackberr/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/12/adobe-flash-blackberr/ Website of the Month – November 2009 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/7WwcyoFNWwM/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/01/website-of-the-month-november-2009/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:00:33 +0000 Blue_Vision http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2264 Website of the Month - November 2009Republic of Code’s Website of the Month Award for November 2009 goes to Odosketch. A website that will get you sketching. View the website via this link.

Republic of Code Website of the Month (You can submit your website to win the Republic of Code Website of the Month Award via this link.)


]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/01/website-of-the-month-november-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/11/01/website-of-the-month-november-2009/ Monthly Wrap Up – October http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/eNHaBlRgQGQ/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/31/monthly-wrap-up-october/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:01:21 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2261 Tutorials:

  • AS3 Using CSS – Learn how to use style sheets to format text fields in Flash.

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]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/31/monthly-wrap-up-october/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/31/monthly-wrap-up-october/ Tutorial: Using CSS in AS3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/mOwh6qVF2ME/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/31/tutorial-using-css-in-as3/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:43:40 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2257 Using CSS with AS3 Our latest tutorial will teach you how to use the power CSS to format your text fields in Flash using ActionScript 3.0. Click here to view the tutorial.


]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/31/tutorial-using-css-in-as3/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/31/tutorial-using-css-in-as3/ Flash CS5 will create iPhone Applications! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/57TgGoAGrjg/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/06/flash-cs5-will-create-iphone-applications/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:29:47 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2254 Flash on the iPhone This is probably the biggest Flash announcement of the year, Adobe announced that Flash developers will finally be able to create iPhone-compatible Flash games. The next version of the Flash authoring tool, Flash CS5, will have a feature to export AS3 projects to native iPhone applications. This feature does not mean that the iPhone will be able to understand Flash files or that its Safari browser will be capable of running Flash movies, but it means that Flash developers will be able to use Flash CS5 to make native iPhone applications and games by using their existing ActionScript 3.0 skills.

Flash CS5 iPhone applications will have some restrictions such as the inability to use the camera or the copy-and-paste features, but will have the majority of other features including SQLite. Developers will still have to acquire an Apple Developer’s License to be able to sell their applications on the App Store.

This is a truly amazing step forward for Adobe and it will help make Flash developers have a new medium to distribute their content. The beta of Flash CS5 is expected to be released by the end of the 2009.

You can learn more about this, watch a demo video and download sample iPhone applications at http://Adobe.com/iPhone . You can learn more about the restrictions of Flash iPhone Application from the Flash Mobile Blog.


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Republic of Code Website of the Month (You can submit your website to win the Republic of Code Website of the Month Award via this link.)


]]> http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/01/website-of-the-month-october-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/10/01/website-of-the-month-october-2009/ Monthly Wrap Up – September http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Oman3d/~3/wERd1Pa1oBk/ http://www.republicofcode.com/2009/09/30/monthly-wrap-up-september/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:00:02 +0000 Blue Chi http://www.republicofcode.com/?p=2244 Tutorials:

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