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Flash, Flex, AIR and RIA Conferences 2009

September 30th, 2009 by Adrian Parr

The 2010 list can be found here …
http://www.adrianparr.com/?p=115

Ok, I know it is a bit late through the year to be posting this, but here is a round-up of conferences and events that relate directly and in-directly to the Flash Platform and digital media in some way. This give you some idea of what happens when and where around the world and what to look out for in 2010. If you want me to add your event then just let me know about it (add a comment at the bottom of this page).

January 2009

Flex Camp Chicago 2009
Flex Camp Chicago
January 22nd - 23rd, 2009
Chicago, Illinois, US

February 2009

FITC
FITC Amsterdam 2009
February 22nd - 24th, 2009
Amsterdam, Netherlands


FOWA - Future Of Web Apps Miami 2009
FOWA - Future Of Web Apps
February 22nd - 24th, 2009
Miami, Florida, US

Flex Camp
Flex Camp Amsterdam
February 25th, 2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lift
Lift09
February 25th - 27th, 2009
Geneva, Switzerland

Flash Camp London
Flash Camp London
February 26th, 2009
London, UK

March 2009

Flex Camp Ottawa
Flex Camp Ottawa
March 3rd, 2009
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

TOCA ME
TOCA ME
March 7th, 2009
Munich, Germany

SXSW Interactive
SXSW - Interactive
March 13th - 17th, 2009
Austin, Texas, US

Maker Faire
Maker Faire Newcastle
March 14th - 15th, 2009
Newcastle, UK

MIX09
MIX09
March 18th - 20th, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Flash Gaming Summit 2009
Flash Gaming Summit
March 22nd, 2009
San Francisco, California, US

April 2009

The Next Web Conference 09
The Next Web Conference 2009
April 15th - 17th, 2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NAB Show
NAB Show
April 18th - 23rd, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada, US

FITC
FITC Toronto 2009
April 25th - 28th, 2009
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FFK09
FFK09
April 27th 30th, 2009
Cologne, Germany

May 2009

flashconference 2009
11th flashconference 2009
May 7th, 2009
Stuttgart, Germany

OFFF
OFFF
May 7th - 9th, 2009
Oeiras, Portugal

Thinking Digital
Thinking Digital
May 13th - 15th, 2009
Gateshead, UK

2M09
Multi-Mania
May 18th - 19th, 2009
Kortrijk, Belgium

360|Flex
360|Flex
May 18th - 20th, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Flash On Tap
Flash On Tap
May 28th - 30th, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, US

FlashCamp
Flash Camp San Francisco
May 29th, 2009
San Francisco, California, US

BarCampLeeds
BarCampLeeds
May 30th - 31st, 2009
Leeds, UK

Maker Faire
Maker Faire Bay Area
May 30th - 31st, 2009
San Francisco, California, US

June 2009

flashbelt
Flashbelt
June 7th - 10th, 2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Warsaw Flash Camp 2009
Flash Camp Warsaw
June 9th, 2009
Warsaw, Poland

REMIX09 Australia
REMIX09 Australia
June 11th, 2009
Sydney, Australia

Flash Camp
Flash Camp Birmingham
June 16th, 2009
Birmingham, UK

Digital Media Conference
Digital Media Conference East
June 25th 2009
Washington, D.C., US

fotl09
Flash at the Lake
June 26th - 27th, 2009
Zurich, Switzerland

July 2009

TED Global 2009
TEDGlobal
July 21st - 24th, 2009
Oxford, UK

August 2009

SIGGRAPH2009
SIGGRAPH
August 3rd - 7th, 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana, US

cfunited
CFUnited
August 12th - 15th, 2009
Leesburg, Virginia, US

Flash camp Atlanta
Flash Camp Atlanta
August 28th, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia, US

September 2009

ARS Electronica
ARS Electronica
September 3rd - 8th, 2009
Linz, Austria

dConstruct 2009
dConstruct
September 4th, 2009
Brighton, UK

Flex Camp
Flex Camp Rimini
September 5th, 2009
Rimini, Italy

BarCamp Brighton 4
BarCampBrighton
September 5th - 6th, 2009
Brighton, UK

onedotzero
onedotzero - adventures in motion
September 9th - 13th, 2009
London, UK

IBC2009
IBC2009
September 10th - 14th, 2009
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Flash Camp St Louis
Flash Camp St. Louis
September 11th, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri, US

FITC
FITC Mobile 2009
September 13th - 14th, 2009
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Actionscript Conference '09
The Actionscript Conference
September 14th - 15th, 2009
Singapore

Lift
Lift Asia 09
September 17th - 18th, 2009
Jeju, Korea

Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington
Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington
September 19th, 2009
Wellington, New Zealand

Flash on the Beach
Flash on the Beach
September 20th - 23rd, 2009
Brighton, UK

London Digital Week
London Digital Week
September 21st - 27th, 2009
London, UK

i-design 09
i-Design 09
September 24th, 2009
London, UK

FOWA - Future Of Web Apps
FOWA - Future Of Web Apps
September 30th - October 2nd, 2009
London, UK

October 2009

FITC
LAFlashapoloozastock IV
October 3rd, 2009
Venice Beach, California, US

FITC
FITC Unconference @ MAX
October 4th - 7th, 2009
Los Angeles, California, US

360|MAX
360|MAX Unconference
October 4th - 7th, 2009
Los Angeles, California, US

Adobe MAX
Adobe MAX
October 4th - 7th, 2009
Los Angeles, California, US

Flashpitt09
Flashpitt
October 15th - 16th, 2009
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Flash Camp Cairo 09
Flash Camp Egypt
October 17th, 2009
New Cairo, Egypt

Play
PLAY :: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference
October 17th, 2009
Berkeley, California, US

FITC
FITC Edmonton
October 17th - 18th, 2009
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

SotR09
Scotch on the Road
October 19th - 29th, 2009
Munich, Germany
Zurich, Switzerland
Milan, Italy
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brussels, Belgium
London, UK

Digital Media Conference West
Digital Media Conference West
October 28th, 2009
San Francisco, California, US

Playful
Playful
October 30th, 2009
London, UK

November 2009

View
VIEW Conference
November 4th - 7th, 2009
Turin, Italy

Flash Camp Philadelphia
Flash Camp Philadelphia
November 7th, 2009
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Latin Flash Tour
Latin Flash Tour
November 7th - 18th, 2009
Santiago, Chile
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lima, Peru
Bogotá, Colombia
San Jose, Costa Rica
Mexico City, Mexico

RIA Unleashed : Boston
RIA Unleashed : Boston
November 13th, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, US

FOWD
FOWD - Future Of Web Design
November 16th - 17th, 2009
New York, US

Flex Camp Wall Street
Flex Camp Wall Street
November 16th - 17th, 2009
New York, US

CaT
CaT London
November 19th, 2009
London, UK

FITC
FITC Tokyo
November 28th, 2009
Tokyo, Japan

December 2009

RIAdventure 360
RIAdventure 360
December 6th - 13th, 2009
Depart from New Orleans, Louisiana, US then cruise around the Caribbean

Posted in Adobe, Conferences and Events | 3 Comments »

Flash on the Beach 09 - See you there!

September 20th, 2009 by Adrian Parr

Flash on the Beach 09

Yay! It’s that time of the year again to head down to Brighton for Flash on the Beach. I’m looking forward to being inspired, educated and meeting up with fellow Flashers.

See you there!

Posted in Conferences and Events | No Comments »

Streaming Video using FMS Gotchya’s

September 17th, 2009 by Adrian Parr

I have just come across a few issues whilst building a video player that plays streaming video from a Flash Media Server.

I thought I had everything set up fine but then when I tested I got the following error message …

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onBWDone not found on flash.net.NetConnection and there is no default value.

So to resolve this you need to set the client property of the netConnection instance to the object on which callback methods should be invoked. For example …

netConnection.client = this;

and then you need to have an empty public method called onBWDone, like this …

public function onBWDone(...args):void
{
    trace("onBWDone: "+args);
}

Sometimes you may get the following error message …

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onFCSubscribe not found on XXX and there is no default value.

In which case you’ll need to add …

public function onFCSubscribe(info:Object):void
{
    trace("onFCSubscribe");
}

The same goes for this error message …

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property close not found on XXX and there is no default value.

In which case you’ll need to add …

public function close(...args):void
{
    trace("close: "+args);
}

I then discovered that the netConnection with the server was being closed after 5 minutes of inactivity (e.g. pause the video and leave it for 5 minutes). What you need to do in this case is listen for the ‘NetConnection.Connect.IdleTimeOut’ NetStatusEvent, and gracefully close the netStream yourself. For example …

import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;
netConnection.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNetConnection_NET_STATUS);

private function onNetConnection_NET_STATUS(event:NetStatusEvent):void
{
    switch (event.info.code) {
        case "NetConnection.Connect.IdleTimeOut":
        netStream.close();
        netStream = null;
        // Display a still image or message to the user ro something
        break;
    }
}

Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Sample Code, Video | 1 Comment »

Flash Player dispatches KEY_DOWN event when entering FullScreen mode (Bug)

September 17th, 2009 by Adrian Parr

Have just built a video player that allowed the user to switch to FullScreen mode and toggle the play/pause state using the SPACE key on their keyboard. However, I found that everytime the Flash movie entered FullScreen mode the playing video would pause and visa-versa.

I then discovered that the Flash Player was dispatching a KEY_DOWN event when entering FullScreen mode. More specifically, the keyCode == 32, which corresponds to the spacebar on your keyboard.

My Flash Player version is WIN 10,0,32,18

See an example of it here …

Here is code for the above demo movie …

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.ui.Keyboard;
    import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.display.StageDisplayState;
   
    import fl.controls.Button;

    public class FullscreenSpaceBug extends MovieClip
    {
       
        public var tf:TextField;
        public var clearBtn:Button;
        public var goBtn:Button;
        public var exitBtn:Button;

        public function FullscreenSpaceBug():void
        {
            trace("FullscreenSpaceBug()");
            stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onStage_KEY_DOWN);
            clearBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClearBtn_CLICK);
            clearBtn.focusEnabled = false;
            clearBtn.useHandCursor = true;
            goBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onGoBtn_CLICK);
            goBtn.useHandCursor = true; 
            exitBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onExitBtn_CLICK);
            exitBtn.useHandCursor = true;   
            tf.text = "";
        }
       
        private function onGoBtn_CLICK(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
        }
       
        private function onExitBtn_CLICK(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.NORMAL;
        }
       
        private function onStage_KEY_DOWN(event:KeyboardEvent):void
        {
            if (event.keyCode == 32) {
                tf.appendText("event.keyCode = "+event.keyCode+"   (SPACE)\n");
            } else {
                tf.appendText("event.keyCode = "+event.keyCode+"\n");
            }
            tf.scrollV = tf.maxScrollV;
        }
       
        private function onClearBtn_CLICK(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            tf.text = "";
        }

    }

}

I managed to find an entry for this bug in the Adobe Flash Player Bug and Issue Management System (JIRA Database). FP-814: Flash Player dispatches KEY_DOWN event when entering FullScreen Mode

I also found a very similar blog post by TyZ which was posted on 25th August 2009 titled ‘Flash bug when enter fullscreen keyboard events fired - Workaround‘.

The workaround is to temporarily remove the KEY_DOWN event listener, and add it again with a slight delay once the FULL_SCREEN event has been dispatched. You could create the delay by using either a Timer, an ENTER_FRAME event or the setTimeout method. In TyZ’s example he used an ENTER_FRAME event, in my example below I use an instance of the Timer class.

WORKAROUND EXAMPLE

Here is the code for the workaround …

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.display.StageDisplayState;
    import flash.ui.Keyboard;
    import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.events.FullScreenEvent;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.events.TimerEvent;
    import flash.utils.Timer;

   
    import fl.controls.Button;

    public class FullscreenSpaceWorkaround extends MovieClip
    {
       
        public var tf:TextField;
        public var clearBtn:Button;
        public var goBtn:Button;
        public var exitBtn:Button;

        public function FullscreenSpaceWorkaround():void
        {
            trace("FullscreenSpaceBug()");
            stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onStage_KEY_DOWN);
            stage.addEventListener(FullScreenEvent.FULL_SCREEN, onStage_FULL_SCREEN);
            clearBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClearBtn_CLICK);
            clearBtn.focusEnabled = false;
            clearBtn.useHandCursor = true;
            goBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onGoBtn_CLICK);
            goBtn.useHandCursor = true; 
            exitBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onExitBtn_CLICK);
            exitBtn.useHandCursor = true;   
            tf.text = "";
        }
       
        private function onGoBtn_CLICK(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            stage.removeEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onStage_KEY_DOWN);
            stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
        }
       
        private function onExitBtn_CLICK(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.NORMAL;
        }
       
        private function onStage_FULL_SCREEN(event:FullScreenEvent):void
        {
            if (event.fullScreen) {
                var timer:Timer = new Timer(200, 1);
             timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
             timer.start();

            }
        }
       
        private function onTimer(event:TimerEvent):void
        {
            stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onStage_KEY_DOWN);
        }
       
        private function onStage_KEY_DOWN(event:KeyboardEvent):void
        {
            if (event.keyCode == 32) {
                tf.appendText("event.keyCode = "+event.keyCode+"   (SPACE)\n");
            } else {
                tf.appendText("event.keyCode = "+event.keyCode+"\n");
            }
            tf.scrollV = tf.maxScrollV;
        }
       
        private function onClearBtn_CLICK(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            tf.text = "";
        }

    }

}

Download the source files for the workaround here

Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Bug | 11 Comments »