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• It’s time for NaN to throw errors

  • Friday, 11 Jun 2010, 22:40 PDT (11 June 2010)
  • By: stevensacks.net, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  We've all experienced it. You're trying to position or size something and it draws all wacky. You're not sure why, but eventually you figure out that one of the values is NaN. The Flash runtime does absolutely nothing to help you solve this problem, but it really should. By contrast, if you try to run operations [...]

• Flash CS5 TLF Engine Causes Errors With Loaded SWFs

  • Friday, 28 May 2010, 12:42 PDT (28 May 2010)
  • By: stevensacks.net, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  I have discovered a nasty bug with Flash CS5 and a TLF TextField in a loaded swf. If you use TLF Engine in a loaded swf, you cannot call a public function of a document class (runtime error function doesn't exist), you cannot cast the swf as its document class or cast it as an interface [...]

• Adobe AIR Non-Transparent Window Bugs Part 3: Native Controls Showing Up

  • Tuesday, 9 Feb 2010, 20:43 PST (9 February 2010)
  • By: stevensacks.net, Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

  In my previous post, I showed how sometimes Windows would draw native controls on top of your non-transparent windows, as pictured here: However, I could not figure out a sure way to reproduce it. Now I have. Here's how you do it: 1. Make a new AIR application in Flex Builder. 2. In your-app.xml, set systemChrome to none [...]

• Gaia 3.2.0 Available Now

  • Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010, 21:49 PST (12 January 2010)
  • By: stevensacks.net, Latest Adobe News by Category

  Gaia 3.2.0 is now available for download. Gaia 3.2.0 updates to the latest 3rd party packages, including TweenLite, SWFAddress, and DeMonsterDebugger. In addition, I fixed a bug that was preventing page swfs from potentially not unloading correctly, and a bug with SoundGroup when using fadeTo() without a callback.