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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Overview: When making websites frequently we want a navigation bar or menu to show on every page. Rather than repeating the code on every single page, which is virtually impossible to update and maintain, or worse, using frames, use PHP to automate this and build each page dynamically. PHP will just paste in the navigation [...]
The Overview: An interactive navigation bar using CSS with rounded corners. Just put the html as an unordered list and your navigation links as list items and the CSS will do the rest! As shown here! The css will tell the browser to display this special unordered list as the menu. This utilizes a technique [...]
The Overview: Here’s a quick javascript trick to control display settings. See it in action here: jsToggle. All we do is set the display of an element to none, and then use a javascript function to toggle the display when a user clicks something else. The Steps: 1. So pick an id and set it’s [...]
Here’s an example. A dynamic scroll, that changes speed according to your mouse. Here is the code for it as well, I tried to keep it pretty generic, just put this onto a movie clip I named “scroll.” And change the variables to fit your needs. Enjoy, [...]
Proposals in the works for new media queries specific to touch enabled devices. Examples include pointer, which will differentiate wether the device has a fine or coarse pointer (finger vs mouse) and hover, which would say if the device supports hover states. I can see this being helpful and useful for building mobile friendly sites [...]
Jason explains the root of the problem and why no one has been able to devise a solution that makes everyone happy yet. The browsers (in their awesome drive to make browsing faster) are prefetching images and developers want to only use one image based on criteria the browser doesn't know until the layout is [...]
This post on creativejs picks apart how this doodlue was made. Nice they they are able to support HTML5 audio even if it is only supported on chrome and the rest fall back to – you guessed it – flash. Embedded Link Google Moog synth tear-down Yesterday we featured Google's web-based analogue synth Moog tribute [...]
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. [...]
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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