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Firefox and the Flash/Flex focus problem

I’m working in a Flex project and the client asked for some Keyboard Shortcuts. It works great on Google Chrome and IE but, for some reason, Firefox doesn’t handle embedded objects focus correctly sometimes. To “fix” this problem, I found a really nice workaround. First, you have to open your application on some browser and [...]

Gif2TileSet: Extract GIF frames into a Tile Set

Some weeks ago I started studying some animation techniques in Flash games and I started making some Blitting experiments. I will post something about it soon, but the point is that to make an animation you first need the graphics and, as your probably don’t know, I suck at drawing! So the first step was [...]