Virtual Keyboard for FlashLite for Digital Home (FLDH) – I
Adobe Flash Lite for Digital Home (FLDH) is Flash Player optimized for hardware and software architecture of digital home devices like Televison Sets, SetTop Box etc. All the events that can be performed on FLDH is only using TV Remote Control. As you all know, Remote Control's navigation is Four-Way (Up, Down, Left and Right) with OK (of Enter) button.
On FLDH, when arrow keys are pressed on Remote, the focus will move from one active object to the next. In this way, we can navigate to all the active objects present on the stage.
Currently there are not many digital home devices which has support for keyboard input. All the inputs possible through remote are Numerals (0 through 9), Directional Keys (Up, Down, Left, Right) and OK (Enter). So, there is no way that we can input alphabetical characters from Remote.
Sony Ericsson FlashLite UI Components
I recently saw that Sony Ericsson released a set of FlashLite UI Components 2.0 Beta, to help Flash developers to create rich apps for Mobile devices with a lot of ease. These components are packaged into a MXP file, which can be installed on both Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4 using Extension Manager.
These components are easily customizable, very light and robust using which flash applications can be developed in no time.
YouTube Video Player in Flash AS2.0 – Part I
In these series of tutorials, i m going to explain how to create a Youtube Video Player in Flash AS2.0. The main challenge we have here is to get the YouTube FLV URL to pass it to NetStream Object in Flash.
While playing any Youtube video in a HTML page, the path of the video is something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYhj22n4aBc. Each YouTube video has a specific Video ID associated with it. Here the Video ID for this video is 'XYhj22n4aBc'. To play any video, we need to know the video ID of that video at first hand.
Extracting the video path using video id is a very tricky part, which i could succeed after refereing to so many scripts.