Omniture is one of the leading analytic vendors out there. Chances are that if you're an Actionscripter you will come across implementing Omniture tracking on one of your projects. I briefly overviewed various tracking in a previous post but thought it might be useful to cover this vendor in-depth. Usually this level of tracking implementation are done on medium to larger flash projects or where the project is part of an online campaign. Smaller sites often don't require this level of tracking and a straight forward implementation of Google Analytics should suffice.

Omniture like many others use Javascript to make requests to a server, passing key-value pairs, to record user activity. Omniture also has a Flash component called ActionSource for more advanced tracking. This post will focus on the ActionSource component and the Omniture setup in general. If you require more information on the Javascript implementation, please read my previous post.

This article should provide you with all the ammo you need when using the Embed meta tag. It is a vital part of AS3 and should greatly enhance the structure of your projects. Hopefully this article will show the benefits of structuring your projects in this way.

I was struggling with this for a bit. But luckily there is a quick work around. It seems the scope is lost for the event listener when using flash.system.File browseForOpen(), i.e. your handler will never know when a file is selected. The solution is to move the variable outside of the function - create an instance variable of File.

Read this thread for more info:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=641&threadid=1275

I always thought that the best way to learn is through an actual project. My computer is full of unfinished projects although now and again some evolve into something more meaningful. Now it's time to start filling up that hardrive full of AIR goodness. Enter FLVPlayer.