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Debugging an SWF at runtime (or) how to output trace() from a browser.

Introduction
This post refers to browser debugging with
Firefox 3.6.8
MacBook OSX 10.4.11 (Intel)

There are 4 main steps to getting your environment up and running for debugging.

Install the Debug version of Flash Player.
Configure the Debug player with mm.cfg.
Check the debug player is writing to the logfile flashlog.txt.
Track the logfile output in realtime.

1: Install the Debug version of Flash [...]

Barclays Bank – 3Box

client: Dare Digital, London

Barclays Bank – 3Box (aka personal reserve)
http://apps.barclays.co.uk/personalreserve-video/

This was an interactive video presentation to promote and educate customers about the new service, “Personal Reserve” provided by Barclays Bank.

It takes the form of a narrative about a young teacher (Sam) who has agreed to trial the service for a week. The service gives a [...]

Portfolio - Williams F1 HQ Tour

client: Endemol UK, London

Williams – HQ Tour
http://www.attwilliams.com/team/hq-tour

The objective is to provide the user with a virtual tour of the Williams site starting with a video introduction from the great man Frank Williams himself and multimedia presentations on the day to day operation of the team, key team members and the history of Williams amongst others.

It [...]

Pandorum - Viral Game

client: Candystore, London

Pandorum Movie – viral marketing webgame
http://www.preparetobescared.com/pandorum/game/

A simple clone game to attract users to the website of the Sci-fi Horror Pandorum as part of a DVD marketing campaign. Once a user has played the game they are invited to send an email to a friend with their score (time) challenging the friend to beat [...]

Embed assets without flex classes

If building from flash class libraries but using the [embed] tag for external media, the flex compiler will throw up errors such as:

Error: The definition of base class SpriteAsset was not found.

(But you can alternatively have BitmapAsset, ByteArrayAsset, SoundAsset etc). This is because the generated asset class is forced to extend Flex-specific classes.

As these Flex [...]

Outdoors for the rest of the week... (hurrah!)

Making final preparations for Dodentocht this weekend. Looking forward to seeing how they record movement of, and present realtime tracking on, slightly over 10,000 runners/walkers.

Historically they have done pretty well and certainly are tech leaders among the events I am aware of.

A smart phone app (augmented reality?) would be ideal for this kind of [...]

ATT Williams HQ Tour

Great to see that one of my all time favorite dev projects has survived into yet another F1 season and a new look parent HTML site.

http://www.attwilliams.com/team/hq-tour

This was done for the F1 2007 season and while there are some things I’d do differently today (list menu + code it is AS3!), it stands the test of [...]

Fun theory

Inspired idea to change the “interface” of everyday objects to encourage a (measurable) change in people’s behavior though playfulness.

http://www.thefuntheory.com/

Google maps - copying the geotag

There is a neat little trick for copying latitude and longitude off Google Maps.

Center your target in the map display and paste the following javascript into the browser address bar.

javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

Hit return and a dialogue box will pop-up with the co-ordinates of the current center-point of the map display. This can be copied and pasted elsewhere.

Useful [...]

Circle Cat

Just when you thought is was safe to go back on the internet!

http://www.members.shaw.ca/gf3/circle-the-cat.html

Excellent excuse for not being productive this afternoon!

I love little addictive games like this. Aside from trying the outwit the moggie part of my brain is trying to determine the logic used here, or atleast how I could build it.

It’s a sweet [...]

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