Embedding whole SWFs in AS3

08/28/2008 10:53 pm in ActionScript

So I've been embedding stuff in AS3 for like 10 years. (give or take a few years ) And I think I've pretty much always done it like: PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: [Embed(source="some.swf", symbol="someSymbol")] private var SomeThing:Class; And never had a problem with it. On a project I'm starting though, I have a whole bunch of assets on the stage [...]

Feature request for Flash Player 11 - Query Graphics Data [ by Thibault Imbert ]

08/28/2008 11:57 am in Actionscript 3

It is too late for Flash Player 10 but there is one feature I would love to see in the next version of the Flash Player. In Flash Player 10, we have a brand new enhanced drawing API which definitely make things easier when you want to draw things with ActionScript. Unfortunately this feature is [...]

New Flash 10 Class: SavingBitmap

08/24/2008 03:53 am in ActionScript

I've been creating a lot of AS3 generated graphics over at Art From Code and have faced the problem of how to get the generated bitmaps (or vectors) out to files. For a lot of the files, they are quick experiments and I do a quick screenshot with Jing. For others, I've created AIR apps [...]

Big in Japan

08/23/2008 12:09 am by Seb Lee-Delisle in Actionscript

I’m noticing a lot of links coming from Japan lately, they seem to be particularly taken with my Papervision reflections… But this one particularly caught my eye - this nice chap (or chapess) has made a pretty 3D butterfly, along with its reflection… nice! And even nicer, they’ve included source. Have you made something nice [...]

Particle tutorial part 2 in Computer Arts magazine

08/22/2008 11:57 pm by Seb Lee-Delisle in Actionscript

Bit late on this one, but just to let you know that the second part of my particle tutorial in Computer Arts is featured in the latest issue, August 2008. Using the skeletons on the Plug-in Media website as an example, I take you through how to blow things up in Flash! [kml_flashembed movie=”http://sebleedelisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/particlesskeletonswithtextfragged.swf” width=”480″ [...]

PDF Widget on Acrobat.com

08/22/2008 12:06 pm in ActionScript 3.0

With the release of Acrobat 9 comes the new Acrobat.com website where you can upload and share documents online. One cool new feature is the ability to embed a PDF file on your website using the PDF Widget. It is basically a SWF movie that works like FlashPaper used to. Thanks to Lori DeFurio for [...]

Nike lab: Technical case study

08/21/2008 06:54 pm by Antti Kupila in Actionscript 3

Nike sports marketing came to AKQA San Francisco with a request: Build a site to promote the innovative new products they are cooking in the Nike labs. These products are kind of like what concept cars are to the automotive industry and Nike wanted to have a way to tell it’s customers more about the [...]

SWFAddress 2.1 + SWFObject 2.1 + Flash CS3 (AS3) Example

08/21/2008 05:31 pm in ActionScript 3.0

I was looking around for a simple example of using SWFAddress 2.1 with SWFObject 2.1 and Flash CS3 (ActionScript 3.0) and came across this blog post by Rachel. She has kindly put a simple demo online and made the source code available. There are a few things that I have updated and am making available here [...]

Changing a cube’s material dynamically in Papervision3D

08/21/2008 12:23 am by Seb Lee-Delisle in Actionscript

It’s long been a bug bear that you can’t dynamically change a cube’s materials, so I’ve just committed a simple update that has simply moved Tim Knip’s clever material swapping methods from the DAE object into the DisplayObject3D. So now we can call replaceMaterialsByName on any DisplayObject3D! So you can use it by calling : cube.replaceMaterialByName(new ColorMaterial(0xff0000,1), [...]

AOL Embraces Flash with AIM Express

08/20/2008 05:09 pm by Daniel Dura in Actionscript

This morning the folks over at AOL, and more specifically the AIM team, launched version 7 of AIM Express. And guess what, it is built using Flash! It really is a great experience and a quality example of the power of ActionScript 3. What is most interesting to me though is not the client, but the [...]

How To Make a BitmapData From a DisplayObject/UIComponent

08/20/2008 02:59 pm in ActionScript

Today I needed to found a way to create bitmap data object from a display object. I found a solution in Flex Cookbook (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=2&postId=1682) and having this I improved it and made it simpler. The code follows… public function makeBitmap(myDO:DisplayObject):BitmapData { var myBD:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myDO.width, myDO.height); myBD.draw(myDO); [...]

Introducing SWFExplorer 0.1 [ by Thibault Imbert ]

08/19/2008 06:31 pm in Actionscript 3

In a recent project I had to use runtime shared libraries. In ActionScript 3, the use of external libraries is made easy through the ApplicationDomain class and the getDefinition method. But one common limitation of the getDefinition method is that you have to know the name of the class definition you want to extract. A cool [...]

Profiled in Create Digital Motion

08/19/2008 01:05 am in ActionScript

I’ve been subscribing to CDM for several weeks now. Lots of awesome visual stuff to be inspired by there. Got a nice surprise today when they ran an article at least partially on me. Stuff like this just makes my head get all swollen.

More on Flash 10 Security

08/19/2008 12:37 am in ActionScript

Lee Brimelow has just posted some more information in regards to the issues WordPress, Flickr, SWFUpload have with the Flash 10 Beta. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the behavior is going to change, but I do understand a bit more on why this was put in place. Read Lee’s response here. Another encouraging thing is that Lee [...]

Flash Player 10 Security - breaking the web

08/17/2008 05:42 pm in ActionScript

OK, I’m being a bit dramatic to get attention, but there is a serious issue here, which I hope Adobe takes notice of and thinks about changing. Often one of the most frustrating parts of working with Flash is dealing with security issues. I understand completely the need for security in Flash. Any mention of any [...]

Why Standards?

08/15/2008 07:24 pm in ActionScript

So ECMAScript, ActionScript, blah blah blah. You already know the news. No need to restate it. What I’m honestly wondering is, why should I care? I’m not being flip about it, I really want to know if AS3 being based on some standard or not really makes any real difference in any way, shape or form. [...]

What is the future of ActionScript?

08/15/2008 04:43 am in ActionScript

Ecma just recently announced that the long standing EcmaScript 4 proposal is dead in favor of focusing on the EcmaScript 3.1 proposal. According to the announcment, they will eventually work on EcmaScript 4 again, but under a revised plan. ES4 as we know it in ActionScript 3 appears to be dead. Specifically [...]

How To Add a Custom Marker On Yahoo! Maps

08/14/2008 02:59 pm in ActionScript

In the previous article I explained how to use Yahoo! Maps. Now I’ll explain how to create a custom marker and how to place it on the map. This is not an easy task because on Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) there is not enough documentation regarding Yahoo! Maps API for AS3. Take a look at [...]

ActionScript 3 songs…

08/11/2008 04:57 am in ActionScript

I should say something witty here, but I think it’s best to let you watch. A couple of genuine LOLs in the 2nd one.

How To Create a Wildcard Filename Search

08/08/2008 05:00 am in ActionScript

This article will explain how to create a wildcard search. What I mean is the following: dir *.* or dir myfile??.txt The old DOS searching way. The first command (if you’ll run them in Command Prompt) returns all files with extension from the current folder. The second command will return any file having its name as this: [...]

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