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Teaching at Red River College this fall

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I’m going to be teaching a course in the Digital Multimedia Technology (DMT) program at Red River College this fall! The course, which has the rather daunting title of “Visual Explorations 1“, is actually an introduction to Flash; I’m not sure where that title came from. It looks like I’ll be teaching two sections, with about 20 students each. I just found out today, and classes begin the first week of September, which means I need to put together some teaching materials in a hurry!

Of course, this also means that if you hire a DMT grad in a few years time and they don’t have the Flash skills they need, then you know who to blame!

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Talkin' Flash at the Smackdown

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Been too busy to even blog about it, but in just a few hours time I’ll be representing the Flash side at a ‘Flash v. Silverlight’ event that’s being co-presented by New Media Manitoba, the Winnipeg .Net User Group, and Flash in the Peg, the Adobe User Group in Winnipeg that I run. The level of interest in the event has been amazing, with over 150 people registered. I’ll be talking about workflow, video, and AIR; hoping to squeeze in a brief mention of mobile in my introductory remarks. It’ll be the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken in front of, so it should be interesting!


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Flash Font Bugs (again)

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Perhaps my Mac is just plain cursed. A while back I reported on a bug that affected authoring Flash Lite 1.1 content on my Mac using Flash CS3, in which embedded fonts simply would not show up (looks like I never blogged about it). A handful of other people have experienced this as well. I reported the bug to Adobe, but nothing came of it, presumably because it’s not happening to everybody with a Mac. So I’m not sure exactly what the cause might be.

Anyhow, Flash CS4 came along, and the problem was (magically) fixed, so I didn’t think much of it. But now it seems like the curse has returned: when publishing content for Flash Lite 3.x using Flash CS4 on my Mac, dynamic text fields set in the IDE to center the text do not do so. The text is instead left-justified. Changing the publishing settings to something else (e.g. FL 2.x) results in centered text.

My guess is that this is yet another hard-to-reproduce bug and, although I’ve reported it to Adobe, will be impossible to reproduce short of my shipping my Mac to them. As it happens, there’s a workaround: use ActionScript to create a TextFormat object, set the align property to “center” and apply that to the text field. Bit of a pain in the butt, but at least things are showing up the way they should!


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