Social Bookmarking from Flash or Flex
Seems one of the things I’m asked to do fairly often is provide links to the social apps that all the kids are crazy about these days. Tired of constantly having to rewrite script or look up an api call, I figured I’d sit down and begin accumulating all the basic calls in one handy […]
FIS Athlone && Warbler Update
Well, my wife’s first installation gallery exhibit came to an official close today. She had a great, albeit stressful, time and the response from the general gallery going public were fantastic. I can now officially say that I’m married to an artist. Can’t wait for the next exhibit. In other news, just updated […]
Last.FM + Twitter = Warbler
Well, since all my friends did it, I finally jumped off the bridge and started using Twitter. Still not entirely sure what the real point is. Seems it has some good intentions – 0-day news, updates, notifications, etc. But mainly it seems a way of finding out when complete strangers are stuck in traffic, taking […]
Motion Detection Navigation Idea (The Beginning)
So, my wife is working on an installation piece for a local gallery and got me digging into the concept of Flash web cam motion detection. I really liked the looks of the motion detection script posted over at the Soulwire blog and started tinkering with it. The early results are posted below. Of course […]
FITC Amsterdam – Day 2 in a Nutshell
Started out the day with Andre Michelle’s “Boing-Bumm-Tschak (Flash 10 Sound API)” presentation. Very beautiful stuff. The biggest thing learned here is that manipulating sound is not so different from manipulating graphic items. That is, reverb is nothing more than a basic “easeout” formula and flanging is just elasticity applied to sou
FITC Amsterdam – Day 1 in a Nutshell
Just got back to the great loft apartment I’m staying at in Amsterdam and thought I’d jot down some impressions thoughts and notes of Day One of the sold out FITC conference while they’re still fresh in me little noggin. First up was the Keynote opening featuring Serge Jespers, Lee Brimelow, Mike Chambers, and Paul […]
CSS Background-Color && Flash TextFields
So, the other day I needed to add a background color to a TextField in Flash. I don’t mean a rectangular area of color such as the backgroundColor property of a TextField would produce, but irregularly sized rectangles that varied by the width of each line of text in the dynamic TextField. Basically, I needed […]
R.I.P Lux
Another great American hero gone on February 4. Lux Interior of the Cramps, dead of a heart condition at the age of 62 (God, I’m old)… Rolling Stone news article here and great live video here. Sad day…
OBO fPlayer (desktop AIR flv player) updated
For anyone interested, I just updated one of my more useful AIR applications – a desktop flv player – to AIR 1.5. No, it doesn’t do any crazy 3d flips or anything, it just, you know, works and stuff. For those wondering what I’m talking about, fPlayer is just a simple .flv player that is […]
Another New Year
Yes, it’s the same bit of Flash animation I posted last New Year’s, but now with added 3d ‘splosions thanks to the magic of Flash Player 10. [kml_flashembed fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fw.swf” useexpressinstall=”true” publishmethod=”static” width=&#
Website Generation Tool Take II
Many moons ago I posted an AIR tool that would allow a user to drag a .swf file into a target area and have it spit out all the javascript, html, etc into a designated output directory. I’m not sure if anyone other than I ever used the thing, but I actually use it constantly […]
OBO_NumberScrubber – a new UI Widget
I’ve seen ’em used in After Effects for ages and now they’re a part of the Flash CS4 interface, so I figured why not a new Flash widget. This little UI component allows users to change numerical values by clicking then dragging their mouse to the left and right over the number display. By clicking […]
Essential AIR & FITC
So much going on all at once as this year draws to a close… The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development is now in stock at Amazon! I worked as Technical Reviewer on this thing and can say in all honesty, this is a very good book from Marco Casario, et al. For those […]
OBO_FlashBox – LightBox in Flash (with added 3d)
Just in for the holidays – a new LightBox JS implementation for Flash (with a Flash 10 3d Twist). Here’s a quickie example made with Flex just to see what I’m on about. The main drawback seems to be the new Flash Player 10 3d features tend to blur the edges of the picture’s frame. Not […]
Polarizer
Turn your boring old photographs into boring old polaroids with the amazing new Polarizer! Click on the camera to browse for an image file (.jpg) to upload. Ideally the image should be 516px. by 516px. Square images will look the best – otherwise, expect some distortion (in other words, all photos will be set to […]
DirectionalBlurFilter && .swc Library and Stuff
Since the release of Flash 10, I’ve seen a few blog posts about creating .swc libraries that can be used in Flash. Probably the most in depth was Mike Chambers article “Creating Re-distributable Actionscript Libraries of Pixel Bender Filters”. Needless to say, I had to give it a go, myself. So, I fired up Pixel […]
And Never Again, I’ll Go Sailin’
no more sailin’ so long sailin’ bye bye sailin’… My penultimate day in the Navy! Tomorrow evening I fly home to my wife and begin my new career as “Senior Software Developer” at a digital media agency in Dublin, Ireland on Sep. 29. Needless to say, I cannot wait. What a long 6 years it […]
Flash UI Panel to Edit the Properties of Multiple Bitmaps
Long ago (MX 2004 days, I believe) there existed a great custom Flash panel released by Fuel Industries that would allow you to set the export properties of multiple library items simultaneously. Say, for example, you have a hundred little bitmap items in your library that you’re using for an interface and you want to allow […]
3D Carousel AS3 Style && BOP Secrets Turns 10
Long long ago, I created a 3d circular menu thingie you can see here. It wasn’t much long after, that Lee Brimelow came up with his 3d carousel tutorial. Well, to be honest, I’ve never read Mr. Brimelow’s tutorial, but still I vowed then and there that I’d never make another one these things again […]
enabled v. mouseEnabled & Other Stuff
In my last post (about the OBO_BoxTransition), Senocular had mentioned in a comment that the demo app was throwing an error when double clicking. While he never did come back to say what the error was, he’s a pretty sharp cookie, so I figured there had to be something to it. So, I finally downloaded the Flash […]