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Official PS3 headset work on Windows 7

Hey all,
I’ve been bored over christmas so i decided to see if my PS3 Bluetooth Headset would work with my very elegant wireless/bluetooth board (ripped from a 6 year old Medion PC) and WIndows 7.
So i managed to pair the headset with windows 7 (amazing considering the age of the card) but then ran into [...]

AIR 1.5 Quick Tips: Getting the SystemTrayIcon.menu Reference

Hey all,
have you been getting this crazy error message when trying to access the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.menu on windows?
1119: Access of possibly undefined property menu through a reference with static type flash.desktop:InteractiveIcon.

Rapid Prototyping

Some of you may be familiar with rapid prototyping. It is a concept i learnt from the Experimental gameplay project, specifically this article by Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray (2D Boy, World of Goo), Matt Kucic, Shalin Shodhan.

AS3 Basics: Loops in Actionscript 3 Part 1 For Loops

Hey Wuup readers. After going through all my older AS3 Basics articles, I found that most of them didn’t really go over the core elements. So in order to rectify the problem, I’ve decided that it’s time to flesh out this area a little. I’m by no means an expert on the language – unless [...]

AS3: How to Run Applications from a Flash Projector EXE with Actionscript 3 and Batch Files

So i’ve been writing some CD launchers recently with some handy tools on. One thing i had major trouble with was getting a Projector .exe to run programs from sub directorys. Luckily i figured it out so heres how…
First in your CD/DVD root directory place a folder named “fscommand” this is the only [...]

Wuup Software Awesome!

Awesome software from Wuup!

JS Basics: How to get an HTML element by its ID in JavaScript

Hey all, I think I’m now comfortable enough to start writing about the basics of JavaScript. Though I will assume you know how to add JavaScript to a HTML page.
So here we are, the most handy thing of all: how to get a reference to an HTML element by the ID number.
document.getElementById(’myElement’);
This will find the [...]

AS3 Handy Snippets: Handy Regular Expressions

Hey everyone. This week, I’m bringing you some handy regular expression snippets I use quite frequently. If you are unfamiliar with regular expressions, think of them as a different language that you use within ActionScript. I’m not going to go into detail about Regular Expressions, there’s far better documentation on the Adobe LiveDocs here for [...]

JS Basics: How to Edit the CSS styles of an element in Javascript

Hey all, Sorry if this article is a bit late, i’ve been doing some major work and was too tired to write anything :P
I’ve actually started to learn the Internet beast Javascript, and i think its about time i shared some knowledge I’ve gathered from problems i had when starting out.

AS3 Basics: Disable Mouse Events on a Movieclip (pass through mouse events) in Actionscript 3

Hey all, in accordance with my new article writting regime, heres an article about a problem i came into contact with today.