December 2007

While most of the blogging community is busy recapping the highlights of 2007, all I know is 2008 is the year I get out of the Navy. God bless us, everyone… [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/fw.swf” height=”200″ width=”400″ fversion=”9″ /]

One of the groovy things about being a child in the 70’s was playing with the utterly pointless toys of our drug addled parents… [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/lava.swf” height=”800″ width=”300″ fversion=”9″ /]

Originally posted 04NOV07 at onebyonedesign.com Just completed work on a remake of a relatively popular Flash MX2004/AS2 component for use in Flash CS3 / Actionscript 3.0. It gained Adobe approval and hit the exchange on Nov 23. You can download it at the exchange or see an example, get more info and download the .mxp […]

Originally posted 29NOV07 on onebyonedesign.com. It seems since the release of AS3, there has been much public debate on how to construct a good Singleton. For those wondering, the Singleton is a design pattern which allows for only a single instantiation of a particular class to take place. This is particularly useful for manager objects […]

It’s an old effect we’ve all seen before, but still seems popular these days. Here’s a little Actionscript 3 implementation: The effect class: LetterCycler.as /** * Randomly cycles the letters/numbers of the message property passed to it in the constructor. * @author Devon O. */ package com.onebyonedesign.extras { import flash.events.Event; import fl