Archive for: Development

Jul 15th, 2010

Formatting Numbers in AS3 / Flex

A quick google search of this topic yields, pages and pages of people rolling their own number formatting functions. Everyone has their own little tweaks to their function. Isn’t there a built in function to do something so trivial ? Yes, it’s the NumberFormatter class, Why does nobody talk about how to use the NumberFormatter class that [...]

May 13th, 2010

HTML5 + video Tag + iPhone, iPad = iHaveHeadache!

Here at no.inc we try to keep things fresh, support new technologies and devices. So recently we have a client who wants some videos on their site, and we decide to make it work with both PC’s and mobile devices (and specifically the iPhone and iPad). The Approach Well, since flash 9.0.115 flash supports h.264 video [...]

Mar 31st, 2010

Using a custom preloader in AS3 with wmode=transparent

Recently we had trouble with a flash piece for a client.  The swf’s we made would not load and just show the loading progress bar.  Upon further investigation it turns out we changed the swf to wmode transparent.  Now I know from past experiences that flash’s internal timing changes with transparent and normally I recommend [...]

Feb 1st, 2010

Google phases out support for IE6

'Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine.' - BBC NEWS

Accordians and Ukuleles

Jan 21st, 2010

Accordians and Ukuleles

At no|inc we love creating online games ( check out Water Street Fighter, Cake Boss)! Recently we had the opportunity to license a copy of our Accordion Hero game to MVNP, a marketing firm out of Honolulu for their own spin “Ukulele Hero“.

Sep 2nd, 2009

Forcing class import with dynamic classes in AS3

Recently I came upon a situation where I’m trying to dynamically instance classes based off meta data loaded externally.  Flex compiles ok, but running fails… Futher investigation while debugging during runtime shows the following error: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable MyClass is not defined. It turns out, that because I have no reference to using the class statically, [...]