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I had this problem in Flash, which entailed disabling some dynamic buttons that had mouseover,mouseout and click events when they were moved under a certain area. This was easily solved by creating an invisible button and setting the property useHandCursor = false. So if you want to disable anything that moves under some area, you can just create a button and set its useHandCursor = false and anything below it will not work. I’m pretty sure I came across this problem before because it seems so familiar. Hopefully this post will help me remember how to solve it and others if they come across this problem as well

I’m working on a flash project that I used AMFPHP with before, but it was an older version.  I thought this might be a good time to try out AMFPHP 1.9 Beta.   So I thought I would add the resources and tutorials that I find here.  Its been pretty simple to setup so far following the docs. I used AMFPHP 1.2 before and one thing I’m glad that is gone is the Method Table.  Essentially you had to list the functions that were available for the service, which was annoying because if you made a change to the function params, you’d have to update the Method Table.

Here’s the list of related AMFPHP sites, if you have any other good links please share and I can update the list.

AMFPHP docs
AMFPHP 1.9 beta2 from SourceForge
Video Tutorial - Intro to AMFPHP 1 (gotoandlearn.com) - Set up and simple email service
Video Tutorial - Intro to AMFPHP 2 (gotoandlearn.com) - use mysql to return data
AMFPHP Security Basics based on this blog post by Wade Arnold

Integration with Drupal
Internal: Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash
Retrieving Drupal nodes with Flex 2
Groups.Drupal Adobe Technologies

UPDATE:
AS3 AMFPHP Tutorial List by Carlos Pinho - Great list, wish I found it earlier.

AS3 AMFPHP Class and Wrapper by Kyle Brekke - Easy to use class for AMFPHP

I just found out there is a Flex Camp event near me and its only $25 on Jan. 31, Saturday.  Now that its here, I’m still debating whether to go or not.  There just aren’t that many sessions that I’m really interested in or probably already saw something similar to at Adobe Max.  I haven’t even caught up with the video sessions I missed from Adobe Max.  For $25 though, its cheap.  If I have nothing else to do, I’ll probably check it out anyways.

Flex Camp OC

A while back I had a problem with the keyboard actions not working when I was in fullscreen for an AIR application. Luckily, the keyboard wasn’t really need for the app, but it would have been nice. So today, I just happened to pass through the documentation while I was looking something else up and found out that I just had to set

stage.stageDisplay = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE

instead of

stage.stageDisplay = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN.

Jim Foley at Mad Vertices is having a Papervision 3D Contest. This should be a good project for anyone looking to learn Papervision3D. He also has some great tutorials on the site that I used and still use to learn Papervision3D. Hopefully I’ll have some time to enter this contest.

I just got Keith Peters, AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation. It’s going to be fun going through this book, if only I had some time. I’ve been pretty busy lately so I’ll have to start looking through it during the weekend. I’ll be sure to post any cool stuff I build while reading the book.

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