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For a recent project, I built a Flash asseessment engine as a plug-and-play tool for a client who wanted a simple way to build LMS ready assessments. The assessment engine loads an XML file and graphics to create custom assessments.
During development, I experienced a problem with the display of the dynamically loaded graphics. If a question had a [...]

While building video templates recently, I had my first run-in with ActionScript 3.o’s infamous Video.clear() bug. The bug is that calling Video.clear() only removes one pixel of a video, rather than the whole video.
The common workaround for the bug is to simply remove the Video component  from the stage when the movie is complete. This [...]

I’m writing this post as a follow-up to the Adobe Captivate Font Rendering post from October because an issue was left unresolved. If the standard font formats are OpenType and TrueType, and even the Adobe Collection of fonts distributed with Adobe programs contains all OpenType fonts, where canyou find the PostScript fonts you need for Captivate projects?
Of [...]

I have been trying to figure out the best way to display HTML text in dynamic text fields for ActionScript 3.0 projects over the past six months. The best solution for Five Star is one that keeps the file size small, is versatile enough to handle different fonts with ease and adapts to different projects with [...]

On October 16th four people from our technology department attended FlashPitt 2009, an interactive conference focusing on Flash. Only in its second year the conference is still young and growing quickly. All around, FlashPitt 2009 was very well planned and organized, the speakers were excellent and diverse, and it was a great time.
Each of us [...]

The Problem
Recently I was working on a project that required a combination of an animated introduction with music and alternating sections with a video of the host talking and a Captivate movie with the host’s voice synced to the movie. We had never combined Captivate SWFs with audio and Flash SWFs with audio in the same [...]

The Problem
When trying to create a theme for Captivate, I discovered our client’s preferred font, Whitney set to 12 pts, which was illegible in the program and in the published SWFs. So I did some research on font rendering in Captivate and came across several possible solutions. Below is a summary of my research, test results, and conclusions:
The Research
I started by [...]

It is UP!
Super Awesome!  I love it, thank you so much,
James
I received the email above last Thursday from James Gagliardi, River Farms Horticulturalist, to inform me that the André Bluemel Meadow web site launched.
River Farms, a 25 acre property in Alexandria, VA, once owned by George Washington, currently serves as the headquarters for the American [...]

One of my favorite methods in the .NET framework is the string class’s Format method. If you are unfamiliar, you can read more about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa331875.aspx. The .NET implementation contains numerous formatting options; however, I am only interested in the basic idea of replacing format items in a string with actual values passed to [...]

Many of our eLearning projects involve importing Captivate files into another Flash file, which usually serves as a wrapper file for the course that contains navigation. Recently I went looking for a way to better control the Captivate files from our custom Flash file and found a great list of Captivate 3 variables for playback [...]