The project I’m working on today allows users to type their own filenames. The actual file extension is added afterwards by my system. I needed to check that the filename itself is valid for Windows so I came up with this: var file_name:String = ” #DOG!”£$%^&*()_+{}~@:?><|¬`-=[]#’;/.,”; // Remove chars not allowed in Windows filename / […]

So the long awaited third and final release of my Stargate Atlantis Computer Simulator is out today. I worked like a dog all this week to finish it off in time for New Years. All the files are up on sourceforge now and the new site has been updated. Might do some more work in […]

So I started work on my first two Facebook applications this week. They are both Flash Christmas games I’m making for Creative Lynx Ltd. They designed and planned them and I’m putting the mechanics into place. When we started testing both the apps certain people where getting an error message popping up in their virus […]

I use Flash CS5 and FlashDevelop. Never got into the Flex Eclipse malarky. Don’t really have the chance since all my clients use the Flash IDE. I like the Flash IDE as it’s convenient for quick graphical mock ups whilst at the same time allowing me to incorporate complex code written externally with FlashDevelop. So […]

Hit a snag with an Air project I’m working on tonight. Got right to the end of the last set of requested changes and then started getting the error: Error #3013: File or directory is in use. It occurs with both new files and old files I’m replacing. Took me a while to suss it […]