http://www.stevesmart.com/ stevesmart.com is the homebase for Steve Smart, a visual motion artist, part-time Flash developer, Father and Husband. en-us steve@stevesmart.com 2007-01-19T00:43:56-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001517.php Hi all, this is an age old discussion that I'm sure has been covered elsewhere before. But, can anyone recommend an easy and inexpensive way to convert a Powerpoint slide deck to individual SWF files? I'm trying to create one... 1517@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2007-01-19T00:43:56-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001514.php Here's a little nugget that I discovered today that some of you may have known for a while, but is new to me. If you have a button (or a movieclip, in my case) that has some ActionScript associated with... 1514@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2007-01-18T12:57:09-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001367.php Steve Wolkoff, the product manager for Flash Media Server at Adobe, has an open thread on his blog asking folks to add their wish list items for the next generation of FMS, version 3. At work, we're currently in the... 1367@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2006-11-02T16:49:23-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001304.php According to this article they are. And if so, what does that mean? What does it mean for developers of content delivered on phones already via Flash Lite? Talk about convergence. I think more and more we're seeing real world... 1304@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2006-09-29T12:33:05-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001251.php Recently, at my day job, we purchased Flash Media Server and we're in the process of installing it in our data center as well as building out a series of templates to handle all manner of media: video-on-demand, video with... 1251@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2006-08-30T15:11:04-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001214.php We're implementing Adobe's Flash Media Server at work and while working on some prototypes recently, I came across a little weirdness when using NetConnection and NetStream to access FLV files versus using the Flash 8 Video Playback component. In all... 1214@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2006-08-11T16:24:37-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001157.php Fresh on the heals of a new update to FMS (now 2.0.2) Adobe has rolled out a tweak to the FLVPlayback component. This update, available here from the Flash downloads page, fixes some minor bugs with SMIL file parsing as... 1157@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2006-06-23T11:44:22-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001101.php I did a very simple update to Lee Brimelow's timecode class to make it work with Flash 8's FLVplayback component. Lee actually had his version as a nice, tidy AS Class; but for this I made a down-and-dirty function. //... 1101@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2006-04-28T14:44:14-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000705.php Ok, so it's now official, I am definitely excited about the upcoming release of Macromedia's Studio 8. Among all the new features in the suite, the single most exciting thing I'm looking forward to is the expanded role that video... 705@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Flash 2005-08-17T16:37:06-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000606.php One thing I've come up against more than once while developing Flash applications that connect to data feeds is caching. In a project I'm currently developing at work, I'm using setInterval to connect to a PHP page every few seconds... 606@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Tips & Tricks 2005-07-23T21:50:39-06:00