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Flash 3D engines brought to Internet a new dimension to designers present their work. Great works were made since Papervision 3D and other know 3D engines appeared. Today i bring you some cool stuff, that you can use in your own projects. If you don’t know yet how to start with Papervision 3d you might [...]
Just after reading a comment from a user of the SliderUI and thinking that it was his error as I had mentioned that I have tested the SliderUI extensively, I ran into a small bug today that didn’t correctly read the range if the start value was over 0 thus causing the SliderUI to add [...]
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I've updated the SliderUI class to add some more features. There is now a custom SliderUIEvent being dispatched, a setter method for the currentValue and percent properties which automatically moves the sliders to their appropriate spots when these are set, and a precision parameter passed into the constructor [...]
The Tech Labs has just published a new tutorial, about expanding the Videoplayer, with new features like, playlist, fullscreen support, save volume and clickable progress/volume bar. Don’t miss this great how-to article by Rafael Nünlist from Orange8.
You can see the demo player here.
Google has recently launched the AS3 version their well know Maps API, increasing the number of available AS3 maps API. In order to give a clear picture of the available maps API at this moment i decided today to create this list so you can choose which best fit your needs. BTW, if you know [...]
I’m sorry about not posting so regular as before, although last days have been too busy and dark for me. My car was destroyed in an accident, and my uncle died. The unique good thing on the last days was my daugter birthday I’m expecting to keep busy in the next days to organize [...]
Fractals and Generative Art are on of the most wonderfull things we can do in Flash. Due to the complexity of the abstract designs which fascinate our mind. The usual method used by the developers is the recursive algorithm. In this post i try to feature some of the few tutrorials and source available as [...]
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This is a straight port of my AS2 AgeChecker (actually Calvin Ly's code, my class) for anyone interested.
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Actionscript:
package com.reintroducing.utils
{
import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;
/**
* A utility class that uses a static method to check whether a user's age is older than the age to check against.
* [...]
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If you’ve ever had to make an application where the user can scale/rotate/distort objects on the stage you know its no easy task. Well, Jack Doyle, a good friend and the wonderful author of TweenLite/TweenFilterLite/TweenMax, has release an AS3 version of his TransformManager class that allows you to easily add this functionality [...]
No matter if we are speaking about a personal or company site, it’s usual to see the use of an image gallery to show their portofolio, or photos or other things. Flash is usualy the choosed platform to develop this kind of popular application. Today i decided to showcase some tutorials where you can learn [...]
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If you're anything like me, you hate using components and try to steer clear of them WHENEVER you can. The SliderUI was spawned from this hate and is a super easy way to create a slider (the equivalent to the Slider component, except it weighs in at a [...]
One cool thing you can do in Flash and Flex, is to create custom classes in order to help you to repeat certain tasks in a easily manner. Today i show you a collection of some cool custom classes, which can help you to develop more and faster.
SoundManager
The SoundManager is a Singleton that does [...]
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I recently had the need to track if the user has stopped using their mouse (if the mouse was idle) in an application I was building. It actually turned out to be a lot easier than I had imagined with the use of a timer and the built [...]
Flash still to be the best platform to deliver multimedia content in the WEB. With the new Actionscript 3.0 many things have changed from the syntax to the new available classes, or the new support native 3D in Flash Player 10. This article show us some tutorials covering these new changes.
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A cool experiment with source to a AS3 class that breaks up vectors/bitmaps into particles and then moves them around in a semi-random firefly pattern.
Two great examples with source files of Twist and Bend modifiers for the PaperVision3D 2.0
Bend Modifier for PV3D - Part 1
Twist Modifier for PV3D
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I've posted before on retrieving FlashVars and how to do it in AS3. FlashVars is the suggested way of grabbing in variables from outside of Flash, but if it isn't an option and you are still using old school query strings, this class will help you in grabbing variables out of the query [...]
Yahoo! Astra Flash / Flex Components are a very cool extra for the available sets of Flash and Flex components. They are easy to skin and lot’s of documentation is available too, so any developer can be able to extend the features of the ASTRA Components. So if you want to learn how to work [...]
Great example by “Grant Skinner”, showing how to create tree by using recursive algorithms. The source is also available for download.
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Do you want to create your own flex component? Or you simply don’t like the style of the component you need to use, or even there are some features you would like to have in your actual component? The following 5 tutorials will show how to achieve these goals.
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