Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

Problem: In the getURL() function of most ads (the actionscript used to manage people clicking the advert) we noticed recently that for some reason they all failed except for _blank. Luckily I managed to find this post: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296448 I’ll paraphrase the poster here who explains it best: That’s because the security model changed from Flash [...]

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 17:18 | 4 comments
Categories: Flash, Misc
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Sothink, the makers of the indispensable Sothink SWF Decompiler provide two handy utilities that plugin into both IE and Firefox. They’re called SWF Catcher and will, when activated, provide easy access to see any flash elements on the page. SWF Catcher for IE: http://www.sothink.com/product/swfcatcher/ie/index.php SWF Catcher for Firefox: http://www.sothink.com/product/swfcatcher/firefox/index.php We use these to simply identify [...]

Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 14:03 | 0 comments
Categories: Development, Flash
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I’ve been with Dreamhost for a fair few years now. They provide good value feature-rich hosting on (usually) solid servers. One of the reasons I was attracted to them was they gave you SSH access which back in 2001/2 was hard to come by. Since then I’ve built Adtools up as a solid reliable platform [...]

Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 16:49 | 0 comments
Categories: Development, Flash

We occasionally have to run SWF files instead of FLV files as a pre-roll ad unit in some of our Brightcove players. When producing these files developers need to follow some basic rules otheriwse all manner of weirdness occurs such as bad resizing of the unit to the player. This link to Brightcove’s own supprot [...]

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 05:29 | 0 comments
Categories: Brightcove, Flash