Tag Archives: actionscript

Dynamic Flash Vertical Scrolling Link List with XML download at Flashden

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 19, 2008

Go get the source files at Activeden

Circlecube Flash Items at ActiveDen

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Distance Formula in Actionscript Tutorial | Pythagorean theorem

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 15, 2008

Overview To find the distance of any two points on an axis is easy, just subtract them. But what about when you have to find the distance of something not on the axis (a diagonal)? Find the distance between any two points with the Pythagorean theorem. This is an old problem we can look to [...]

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CSS and HTML WYSIWYG in Flash | Open Source Example

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 11, 2008

Overview: Using what I learned with the Actionscript Javascript Communication Tutorial, and pushing it a little further I’ve set up this example of how flash renders html and css. This is basically a wysiwyg (What you see is what you get) html editor! Natively flash only handles some html and css. Many people have enhanced [...]

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City Skyline Test | Depth Study

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 6, 2008

Gives feel of perspective and depth by reacting to mouse movements. The effect is parallax, read more… The city images are very choppy and ugly, I know, it’s just a test.

Sample Actionscript. This in on one of the buildings which are separate movie clips. Adjust the [...]

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Actionscript Javascript Communication | ExternalInterface call and addCallback Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: February 1, 2008

UPDATE: there’s a newer post about this same thing (actionscript javascript communication – but in as3)! I encourage you to check it out! Overview: Using ExternalInterface.addCallback() we can expose an actionscript function and make it available to javascript. This would be helpful to have your webpage with embedded flash communicate to your flash swf file [...]

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Integrate Google Analytics with Flash | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: January 28, 2008

The results are in and the requested topic is “Integrate Google Analytics into Flash.” The poll has been reset and is ready to recieve your post requests, so keep voting! It’s located in the side bar! Overview: Tracking your visitors and attempting to better understand them is a large part of even having content on [...]

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Customize the Right-click menu in Flash | ContextMenuItem Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: January 21, 2008

Overview: Flash give publishers the opportunity to customize the right-click menu which pops up in the swf file with a context menu item in actionscript. ContextMenuItem ContextMenuItem(caption:String, callbackFunction:Function, [separatorBefore:Boolean], [enabled:Boolean], [visible:Boolean]) Creates a new ContextMenuItem object that can be added to the ContextMenu.customItems array. Steps: The menu item has a caption, which is displayed to [...]

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Squambido from StomperNet

By Evan Mullins | Published: January 11, 2008

The new video player from StomperNet! Feature Set: This Video Player is built in Adobe flash. I was involved in the actionscripting and design of the player and implementing many of the functions. There is a playlist imported into the player and even an html ‘sales pages’ loaded into the player. The progress bar shows [...]

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Get current url to Flash swf using an External Interface call

By Evan Mullins | Published: January 2, 2008

Update: please see the newer tut talking about getting the current url with as3 Overview: Many have struggled with the task of getting you swf to read or get the current url showing in the browser, the html page the browser is at which has the swf embedded. Not to be confused with the _root._url [...]

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StomperNet Scrutinizer

By Evan Mullins | Published: December 28, 2007

StomperNet releases Scrutinizer, software for viewing websites through a simulated fovea vision. Since not everyone could set-up, let alone afford a real eye-tracker. This software uses the mouse pointer as the user’s focal point, or foveal view. It blurs everything except where your focal point (the mouse) is. It is helpful because it forces you [...]

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    WordCamp Presentation Slides: From Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme

    By Evan Mullins on February 3, 2012

    Here are my slides for my WordCamp Atlanta presentation, From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin: PSD to WP on Prezi

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    Speaker at WordCamp Atlanta 2012

    By Evan Mullins on February 1, 2012

    I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Atlanta this year! WordCamp will be held this weekend and hosted at SCAD Atlanta! My session is titled: From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin. Obviously, I’ll be focusing on themes. We’ll look at what they are, what they can do, how [...]

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    Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks

    By Evan Mullins on December 23, 2011

    Zero images is something that always gets me excited, I really like these arrow button styles! I like the css used more and the hover/active states too, nice css3 transitions. via Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks.

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    Snow via Javascript & Canvas – Tis the Season

    By Evan Mullins on December 9, 2011

    After playing with the settings in my experiments I found a few settings I liked and wanted to develop further. The first was snow! An added bonus I was able to work on a project just for the holidays and used much of this code in it! I looked around the web and saw a [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Ethan Marcotte, Rolling Up Our Responsive Sleeves

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    Henry Adams (Descendant of 2 presidents: great-grandson to John Adams and grandson to John Quincy Adams). He lived between the civil war and world war 1. He witnessed the industrial revolution. Chaos was the law of nature, Order was the dream of man Samuel Johnson – funniest man in the 17th Century… Responsive Design: 1. [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Jared Spool, The Curious Properties of Intuitive Web Pages

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    Senseless waste of asterisks… Avis used an asterisk to denote optional fields. This means that there is a lot of baggage that comes with an asterixk. Somewhere this symbol got meaning, it’s not in the bible! We can control when something goes from unintuitive to intuitive. A design is intuitive (although technically and grammatically speaking [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Marco Arment, Bridging the App Gap

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    The iPhone changed our industry in 2007: first mobile to have a desktop class web browser and it made people start using their mobile phones as computers! All apps other than apple provided ones were web browser apps. Most of the first apps were branded web browsers. No real difference between using mobile site or [...]

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    An Event Apart Notes: Luke Wroblewski, Mobile to the Future

    By Evan Mullins on February 7, 2012

    MASS MEDIA (in waves) Print, Recordings, Cinema, Radio, Television, Internet, Mobile Mobile is the new Mass Media It certainly is mass and massive. More mobile devices (by far) every day than babies born on the planet. Mobile devices are eating into our personal computing shares. New waves of mobile media eat all previous media waves. [...]

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