I’m so excited for my first real experiment with Arduino and Actionscript 3.0 using external hardware to communicate and control my Flash applications, and viceversa.

In this article we’ll develop an image gallery in a 3d enviroment using Flash Cs4, ActionScript 3.0, Papervision 3D and Caurina Tween library.

Request: How to set a global component style in Flash / AS3?
Solution: Use StyleManager class and setComponentStyle method to set global styles

Reading RSS feeds from Flex or Flash often generate some security issues when the origin domain doesn’t contain a crossdomain.xml file to manage the policy settings.
A little workaround is create a PHP proxy to read the feeds and pass the content to the Flex script.

ActionScript 3.0 doesn’t manage all developers needs, so often they have to use other languages, as JavaScript, to accomplish some operations like open an HTML popup or get the userAgent property, useful to know the user Browser.
The AS3 ExternalInterface class allow to invoke Javascript functions directly from Flash.
Usually these functions are defined inside the HTML page but in this sample we’ll see how to implement them inside an ActionScript class, avoiding to edit HTML code.

As often happens, i got the expiration to write this little post after an user request from an actionscript.it forum.
In few words, user asked how integrate a Google Search inside its Flex application to display the result always inside the flash app.
So I started to surf around the web to find a valid solution, and after founding many PHP solutions I found a cool AS3 library, developed by Boulevart.
This API provides a lot of classes to connect Flex (and Flash too) to Google services (Google Search, Translation, News, and so …

In this post I’ll show you how to create a form with a file attachment using Flash CS3/4, ActionScript 3.0 and PHP. The trick is use the FileReference class to upload a file from your own hard disk and at the same time send the input- field values.

I’m really happy to see that in Flash Builder 4, the next release of Flex out in spring 2010, a complete video player component will be finally available with a lot of integrated features: play/pause, progress bar, time and fullScreen button too.

See it in action (click on buttons to play videos)

In this sample, full-commented, we’ll use the FlashPlayer 10 3D features to display a list of Video Thumbnails enabling the Mouse Click Event to enlarge them changing their z and rotationY properties.
We’ll use Caurina Tween to perform 3d animations, so download them and copy the caurina package in your project folder before test this sample (they are not included inside the source files)

The Adobe User Group flex-developers.org invite you at Flex camp on the beach (Milano Marittima), a free one day gathering with food, drinks, coding and time with the Flex engineers covering the most desired topics about the upcoming release of Flex 4 and Flash Catalist.
Speakers and topics are great, so you must join it!!
Matt Chotin
Adam Flater (http://adamflater.blogspot.com/)
Michael Labriola (http://blogs.digitalprimates.net/codeSlinger/)
Rich Tretola (http://blog.everythingflex.com)
Michael Plank (www.powerflasher.de)
Jaco Pixeldump (pixeldump.org)
Giorgio Natili     (flex-developers.org)
John Lindquist (http://pv3d.org, http://flex4.org)
Joost Nuijten
Eros Marcon     (actionscript.it)
Simon Slooten (www.simonslooten.com)
Matteo Lanzi  aka Gallo_Teo (flex-developers.org)
Gabriele Farina
Alessandro Crugnola aka Sephiroth
USEFUL …