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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A website (sales letter site) to order an engraved tile to be placed on a wall at you choice of NASCAR race tracks. Proceeds benefit Speedway Childrens’ Charities. Get yours today… Site design with Dreamweaver using html and css. Incorporated flash elements for multiple video and audio players. Graphic Design in Fireworks and Illustrator. Click [...]
The video player at Free IQ now supports Google Analytics and remembers your history! We’ve just released a few new features for the flash player. For the user, we’ve added a “high water” mark showing furthest point in the video you’ve watched. For the web-site owner who embeds a FreeIQ video player on their sites, [...]
Embedded player from Free IQ. Nicholsong song by Dionysos, Music Video by Circle Cube Studio
Introducing our new Free IQ player! It’s got lots of new bells and whistles, and is the first player on the internet to directly incorporate e-commerce. Let us take you through the tour of: Our new “scrub bar” Volume controls The playlist Full screen mode Author information IQpons The term “scrub bar” refers to widgetry [...]
As seen at activeden. I’ve fixed it up a lot and made it much easier to incorporate into your own files. A link list. Vertically scrolling list of links or just words. Scrolls and wraps automatically and interactively. Reads an external XML file containing just titles and paths and creates an interactive click-able link list! [...]
Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today Embedded Link Moog 自分のオリジナル曲を創って、 #moogdoodle で共有しよう。
New additions to the plugin directory include: favorites, incorporating support forums into it's own tab for each plugin as well as support stats being displayed! Great! I think we also need the ability to give plugins ratings and reviews (bonus points if it can be done from within a wordpress admin dashboard when installing plugins). [...]
Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to [...]
Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working [...]
A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version [...]
I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too. [...]
Here are a few useful css tricks to remember when building responsive design sites from web designer wall Embedded Link 5 Useful CSS Tricks for Responsive Design Making the design to be responsive is very easy as shown in my Responsive Design in 3 Steps tutorial, but maintaining the elements to look aesthetically balanced on [...]
Bruce details the reasons and story behind the srcset attribute which is now introduced as an alternative to the picture element. Some aspects of the attribute are nice (like the fact that it's an attribute and not a new element, so it's creating up new elements with for problems. It's adapting currently used elements to [...]
Here's a very creative use of using a newly available technology. Using svg graphics which are very lightweight, for a website preloader. I like the animation used as well. Embedded Link Make a stylish preloader with SVG | Tutorial | .net magazine Many sites neglect users with slow connections. Ian Culshaw explains how to use [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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