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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
3D Box Transition Effect in Flash Player 10
Playing with another transition effect made possible by the 3d capabilities of Flash Player 10, gave rise to the example below. The initial object seen is just a quickly thrown together MovieClip to demonstrate that interactive items can be transited as well as static images. After that first mc, though, all you’ll see is a […]
Billboard Transition Effect in Flash Player 10
Didn’t really know what else to call this one. I’m sure you’ve all seen those billboards, though, that periodically spin small sections of themselves around to reveal a whole ‘nother billboard beneath advertising still more crap you don’t need, can’t afford but have to have. I just love those things. Used to mesmerize me for [&helli
Yahtzee! Too Late for a Contest, but Never too Late to Play
Long ago and an ocean away, I made a nice little Yahtzee game in Flash that many folks (myself included) seemed to love. Unfortunately, “something” (I never did come around and track down exactly what that something was) broke the hiscore saving script around the same time Flash 8 appeared (yes, this was back late […]
“Fleximagically Searchable” – By the Rules
During my usual daily blog browse, I ran across this interesting contest by Ryan Stewart. The idea, or at least so it seemed to me, was to see if the new method of swf indexing being hammered out by Google and Adobe would be capable of making content loaded dynamically into swf files searchable. Now, […]
Two Flash Website Generation Tools
For those of you who regularly use swfobject, expressInstall, and swffit (formerly “fitflash”) for your Flash websites/applications, I just developed a couple tools that will make you love me. The first is just a simple html template that can be used with Flash. Download the template here and extract the html file to your HTML directory (on […]
Active Window(S) Blur
After taking another look at this post, I came up with a way of making multiple windows that will all blur the same image. I have to admit, though, I’m not particularly fond nor proud of the way I did it. The trouble is this: a masked display object can only have a single mask […]
Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
Every Fourth of July, I like to sit down and reflect a little on the meaning of the holiday. You can keep your Christmases, and Thanksgivings – in my opinion, Independence Day is the most important of the American holidays. It’s not just a time to get a day off of work, consume mass quantities of […]
Active Window Blur
I was checking out a website yesterday when it suddenly reminded me of a Pixelfumes experiment I remembered seeing many moons ago. After finding it with a quick Google search, just for kicks, I decided to play around and update the idea to AS3. I didn’t bother with the constant updating to accomadate video as that seemed […]
3D Shell Game
Just a little diversion to while away some time whilst stranded just off the coast of Nowheresville, Maine. It’s sort of a 3d shell game/3 card monte (but completely fair). 3D courtesy of Papervision3d. Have fun… [kml_flashembed movie=”http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/boxgame.swf” height=”400″ width=”5
AIR Cookbook Beta hits the Cyberstreets
Check out the new AIR Cookbook online at the Adobe site here. My entry on implementing a “Recent Items” menu can be seen here, but don’t worry, there’s some good stuff there as well. Back underway (navy speak for going back to sea) tomorrow for a couple weeks. Not particularly looking forward to it, but […]
Got User Interface?
When Flash CS3 first appeared, aside from those few provided, good looking UI components were few and far between. It seems that recently, though, you can’t swing a dead cat across cyberspace without hitting some new Flash component or other. In addition to the scripted ui package I have for offer here, there is now: Liquid Components, created […]
Curved 3D Wall in Flash Player 10
While catching up on various blog posts earlier today, I ran across this very nice example of a new Flash component which utilizes Papervision3D. As wonderful as it is, my first thought was, hey, you could do something like that natively in Flash 10 – which is exactly what I sat down and did. Now, […]
Flash + Spry = Fly
I was playing with Dreamweaver the other day, just to see what kind of non Flash platform technologies are available these days, when something caught my eye. That “something” was the Collapsible Panel widget – part of the Spry/ajax framework that comes with Dreamweaver. It seemed to me that with just a minimal amount of […]
Asdoc GUI and CommandProxy
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time. Many moons ago, I created a simple GUI for asdoc.exe (the tool that creates nice looking HTML documentation from actionscript class files for those wondering – though I can’t imagine anyone reading this and not knowing) using SWFKit. Well, it was about the same […]