I remember ~5-6 years ago when I decide to make my first flash components using actionscript only, scaling image slideshow was one of them.
I got lots of feedback, comments and after that I start my freelance flash development carrier.
In fact, the slideshows, galleries are the flash elements that I’m using almost in all flash projects/websites, so I think it might be useful to share some code for scaling image gallery.
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update:
pause() method is added, example .fla file is updated.
As far as I know there is no way for adding cue points in flash Sound, but using SoundChannel.position property we can check playhead current position and simulate cue points for Sound.
So I wrote simple utility Class for simulating cue points for Sound Class In AS3.
Here is the example of easing, reusable preloader that I am using in some of my projects.
The general idea is to tween the loader bar to the next point instead of just jumping to it.
The easiest way to achieve that effect is using one of the tweening libraries. Continue reading ‘Easing preloader as3′
Update
Because of for dual screen Capabilities.screenResolutionX returns only size of main screen, setSize method is added in class.
You should set width and height in setBitmap and loadBitmap methods as well.
source files are updated.
Here is the simple class file that allows to set tile background in flash.
Background can be set from both flash IDE library (linkage) and from external path.
Using Capabilities.screenResolutionX and Capabilities.screenResolutionY we can set width and height of background to match the screen size and don’t care for resizing. Continue reading ‘Tile background in AS3′
Here is the way I made Tooltip for my flash projects.
It’s class attached to library symbol, in order to change skin you have to just modify movieclip in library. Background contains guides for 9 slice scaling. Continue reading ‘ToolTip In AS3′
I just found from Ben Forta’s Blog that ADC videos are available on iTunes.
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Check out Peter Ent’s article in Flex Developer Center if you want to know more about itemRenderers in Flex.
In previous post I describe easy steps to simply setup Flashdevelop.
Now let’s setup papervision3D in Flashdevelop.
Continue reading ‘How to setup Papervision3D in FlashDevelop’
Flashdeveop is free, open source, powerful actionscript(and not only) editor based on NET framework.
Unfortunately it’s for windows only…
My first actionscript editor was Scite|Flash(the old days), after I switch to Flashdevelop and quite happy with it.
Continue reading ‘How to simply setup and use Flashdevelop.’
I have recently finished watching all videos from “Flex in a Week” series.
I will highly recommend to everyone who want to start in Flex to watch the videos.
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