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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Taking a well-deserved break from the Navy and coming home to Ireland, I had a little time to put together a small example of what may be accomplished with the UI tools from my last post. Here’s a simple little drawing application that allows the user to adjust the size, color and shape of the drawing tool. [...]
Just finished retooling a small package of six user interface tool/widget classes. While not extremely customizable, they are very lightweight (being entirely scripted). And of course you are welcome to mess with the script to produce something more suited to your own application design. You can check out an example here, view the documentation here, and [...]
