Author Archives: Carly (Admin)

About Carly (Admin)

I'm a multimedia developer based in Brisbane. I work for an elearning firm and code my own projects in the wee small hours between eating, sleeping and working.

Speaking at webdu

I’ve known for a little while but realised I should post… I’m speaking at webdu again this year. My talk is on getting underneath your flex skin. I’ll be showing some interesting techniques on getting custom states and skins into … Continue reading

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Google has a new favicon

I noticed that google has a new google fav icon. After putting up with it for a little while then my curiousity got the better of me (as I’m working) and I did a little research to find out that … Continue reading

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Adobe groups is live

Adobe has set up a site for all usergroups to use with forums, blogs etc. Visit and sign up for the Brisbane Flash platform group.

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Image resize problem

I have a script for my band’s website that automattically generates an xml file, resized images and thumbnail images from a folder of original photos. Recently it has been giving me some trouble by just cutting out. This is the … Continue reading

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Splitting the blogs

Well I’m finally taking the plunge to be more like the ‘cool kids’ and having a technical blog and a personal blog. I’m leaving this as my technical blog and have copied the blog to the http://www.koali.com.au/life. Over the next … Continue reading

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Compiling skins in flash develop

In either the pre-build or post-build command line properties of your project. (project->properties->build tab) C:\pathtoyourflexinstallation\bin\mxmlc.exe $(ProjectDir)\src\skin.css -output $(ProjectDir)\bin\skin.swf -library-path+=src\flex_skins.swc You should be able to use $(CompilerPath) but that doesn’t work at the moment. More details and future fix

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