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  • Star Wars Galaxies Flash Site

    Via <a href=”http://www.mediadiva.net/mt/”>her majesty</a>.

    Star Wars Galaxies Flash Site
    <a href=”http://www.lucasarts.com/products/galaxies/”>http://www.lucasarts.com/products/galaxies/</a>

    I don’t play anymore as her majesty is about to absorb my account as well, but for those of you who haven’t, they have fixed 1000 bugs of 20,000, so it’s very playable. Anyway, the above site shows you just a few aspects of the game as it is a lot deeper than the site portrays. Oh yeah, and don’t be fooled… the Imps (Imperials) are a bunch of woosies who stand behind their AT-AT’s, so the Rebs (Rebels) portrayed as being pinned down is a misnomer.

  • FLV v1.1, metaData, and getting the length of a FLV file

    Catching up on the developments in the FLV arena, Flash’s video format, it seems there is finally a way to get the length of an FLV file. One critical flaw in the FLV design when they implemented the ability to dynamically load FLV files in the Flash 7 player was no native length property. Now, in the Flashcom world…

  • Online Collaboration Process?

    Anyone know of any online collaboration processes? The goal is to allow two to many developers to work together on a project.

    Read on for more details…

  • Hand over the TabBar, and no one gets hurt…

    Ok, Macromedia’s been holding out. Discussing some Flash stuff with some colleague?s and it seems they have a component I, and another developer don’t in their copy of Flash MX 2004 Pro: TabBar.

    Now, it’s not in the StandardComponents.fla, which is the source components, and I just heard there is also no TabView.as file in mx > controls in the classpath. Anyway, it’s a Halo version of the TabView component (DRK 3, Component Set 5).

    Frankly, I WANT IT! Is this a DevNet subscription only type of thing?