Tag Archives: flash

How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial

One of the best features of the flash player if you’re doing video is the fullscreen functionality. It has been a question I’ve heard repeatedly. There are limits to what you can do in fullscreen. Such as minimal keyboard support while in fullscreen. But it is perfect for a video player! Who doesn’t want to [...]

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Fullscreen in AS3 Tutorial | Plus Firefox Flash bug when enter fullscreen keyboard events fired

To view the full fullscreen tutorial go here: How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial Sucks when you seem to have a bug in your code somewhere so you dissect your code over and over and are convinced that according to your code, everything should be fine, so you come back [...]

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#tweetcoding

If you didn’t know, Grant Skinner has introduced an interesting competition called tweetcoding! Mixing as3 with the 140 character limit of tweeting he calls for the community to tweet visually interesting source code. I’ve played a bit with it and tweeted my first #tweetcoding entry! See more tweetcoding here g.clear(),o[++i]={x:mouseX,y:mouseY,c:r()*0xFFFFFF};for each(k in o)k.c*=.9,g.beginFill(k.c),ls(i,k.c),g.drawCircle(k.x,k.y,1),g.endFill(); Want to [...]

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Random Movement | Brownian revisited for as3

I have had feedback that certain random movements I program are a bit “jumpy”. Such as my old brownian movement tutorial and I really noticed it in my last tutorial, the parallax 3d depth effect tutorial. I’ve been thinking about it and looking around at some code and now have this updated brownian movement example! [...]

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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! | Review

Keith Peter‘s Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! Can I just say WOW! Being a student of art and animation before turning to the flash world, I love how Keith is able to explain programming in terms that are very easy to understand and follow. I’ve been a huge fan of his since I [...]

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Dynamic 3d space | Floating Sketches Tutorial

I’ve had quite a few questions about how to make depth in flash. Earlier (like, 2 years ago) I put up an experiment file to give some interactive depth to some sketchbook sketches, see Floating Sketches. I’ve finally gotten around to translating that into as3. It’s still the same basic idea, Create layers of levels, [...]

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How to as3 resize a movieClip and constrain proportions | Actionscript Tutorial

I’ve had that exact task numerous time while scripting actionscript. I have a source image loaded externally or a mc within the program and I need to fit it into a certain area (width x height) but keep the aspect ratio the same or as photoshop calls it “constrain proportions”. I’ve done this with fancy [...]

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asfunction (TextEvent.LINK) Tutorial for AS3 | Flash HTML Link to call actionscript function | Tutorial

Overview Earlier I wrote a tutorial article about asfunction in as2. Now that I’ m into as3, surprise surprise asfunction has been depreciated and now to replace it is the LINK TextEvent. Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL [...]

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StomperNet Strikes Again! with FormulaFIVE

StomperNet has been a ‘buzz’. After Andy’s ‘Mea Culpa‘ why wouldn’t it be… But this is so much better and bigger, learning many lessons from the last launch – StomperNet strikes again! Teamed up with Paul Lemberg a new product called FormulaFIVE (F5 for short). Just launched a video to excite the industry! So check [...]

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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide | Book Review

Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser’s Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide. This book is published by O’Reilly and is part of the Adobe Developer Library. This book was a great way for me to move into as3. I’m coming from a visual design background with little formal programming training, to know more of my background [...]

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    WordCamp Presentation Slides: From Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme

    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

    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 [...]

    Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks

    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

    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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    Link: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need

    Mat discusses the options for getting responsive images along with responsive designs. We can use various means (server-side, client-side, mobile-first, html5 data attributes, cookies…), but none are fully satisfactory, especially with new browsers prefetching images before cookies can be set or html is even fully read and parsed. He states that bandwidth sniffing is… a [...]

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    Yiibu – About the site…

    Here’s a great article about the process of responsive design & mobile first design and how to practically use them both in a project. This site is a proof of concept for many of the ideas described in Rethinking the Mobile Web or (Mobile First Responsive Design). via Yiibu – About this site….

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    Link: Introducing Gridpak | Erskine Labs

    Here’s a great tool to make responsive grid layouts. Thanks to Erskine Labs! Introducing Gridpak | Erskine Labs.

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    Link: HTML5 multiply filter with canvas | Alberto Gasparin

    Here’s a great little script I found useful today as I was working on having dynamic effects applied to javascript via canvas. “The canvas element provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” Thanks to the canvas APIs I was [...]

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