Adding Flash/Actionscript Content to a Flex Project
In my recent quest to quick cram as much Flex knowledge possible into my head, I thought I’d take a look at injecting Flash or pure actionscript content into Flex. For those who’ve been using Flex, this will be old hat. For those such as myself, though, who are just making their way into Flex from a […]
Passing Arguments to Event Listening Methods
I’ve seen this question asked in several forums. Enough, anyway, that I would remark on it. The question takes many a form, but it boils down to this: How does one pass arguments to a method acting as an event listener in Actionscript 3? In general there are three broad routes to take: Using a custom […]
“FontBox” – ComboBox for Font Selection
Many moons ago someone over at the Kirupa forum asked how to create a combo box that could display a list of fonts in their “natural state”. Sounded pretty interesting so I whipped together a quick example that made use of some graphics in the .fla library. It was nice and worked, but I thought […]
Adobe Gone Wild
Wow – what a busy day for Adobe. AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0 final versions finally released today. Rather an odd thing as it seems I’ve been doing AIR projects for ages. One wonderful thing I noticed right away: after installing the Adobe AIR runtime file (short for Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime runtime – redundancy aplenty in that […]
ImageInfo Desktop AIR Application
Inspired by a forum post over at CreativeIreland, I thought I’d sit down and create a simple AIR application that could read the metadata contained in image files. Unfortunately, reading image metadata turned out to be not as simple as I had hoped. Thankfully, my friend Google turned me on to the wonderful and lightweight […]
FlashDevelop Update
Just happened to notice FlashDevelop 3.0.0 Beta 6 was released today. I love this software! A peek at the change log: * General UI and localization fixes and improvements * New Bookmarks panel added for an overview of all your open documents bookmarks * Captures Flash CS3 compiler errors in FD results panel when CS3 […]
The Old Snow Trick – In the Third Dimension
While working on a little Valentine’s Day ecard for the most wonderful wife in the world, I suddenly had an idea… Snow effects have been done in Flash since at least Flash 5 (maybe even Flash 4 if I think back hard enough), but I have yet to see a Flash snow storm in “true […]
Looping Progressively Downloaded .flv Files
I’ve seen this asked several times in as many different forums, so thought I’d try to help with a little class I made a few months ago. /** * Creates an automatically looping video. * @author Devon O. * @version 0.1 */ package com.onebyonedesign.extras { import flash.media.Video; import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.NetStream; import flash.eve
Sine Language
Not sure exactly how useful this effect may be, but here’s a little something I was playing around with and thought I’d share. Example: [kml_flashembed movie=”../wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sinewriterexample.swf” height=”400″ width=”500″ fversion=”9″ /] The Working Class: /** * SineWriter class writes out mess
Auto Resizing Popups with Actionscript
While, normally I dislike popups, they are definitely an occasional necessary evil. This little utility class can make them much easier to create. Simply pass it the path of an image file (i.e. a .jpg) and it will open up a popup window containing that image and automatically resize itself to fit the picture. Only […]
“Double Sided Plane” with Papervision
Here’s a little trick I learned from playing with After Effects (“postcards in space”, man). If you’d like to have a double sided Plane object (playing card, flipping piece of paper, etc), simply create a DisplayObject3D instance, add your two sides as planes, push one side back a single pixel on the z axis, then […]
Preloading my Life
This has got to be the longest preloader ever – the amount of time I have left until I’m out of the Navy: [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/lifeloader.swf” height=”100″ width=”250″ fversion=”9″ /] Which reminds me – here’s a handy AS3 class to create a countdown from now until som
OBO_ToolTip – another goldy oldy
Here’s another old bit of script most likely missed by most folks. Mainly reposting here as I’m still excited by the novelty of this WordPress thing. But for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it may come in handy. I know I’ve used it myself quite a few times.. OBO_ToolTip.as /** * Singleton Tool Tip class […]
The AS3 Singleton Revisited
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 […]
Random Letter Cycling
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