Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
The company I work for, Almighty (almightyboston.com), is looking for that special someone.
What would make that ideal 'special someone?' A designer / developer who has a couple years of experience. Knows AS2/OOP (AS3 preferred). Has some design chops. Would absolutely love to work on projects that involve animation, ...
Posted in Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Design, Flash, Flex, General | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
In working on a project, I created a simple utility class that has this public static method. This basically takes a DisplayObject, copies it, and adds it to a new Sprite which is then returned to the caller. Simple enough. I'm sure this can be refined or done a different ...
Posted in Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Snippets | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
I'm rather annoyed right now. For whatever reason, I didn't think that determining if the user has 3 keys pressed at once would be so difficult. Attempt to press all the arrow keys that correspond to the arrows being displayed...
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and ...
Posted in Actionscript 3, Flash | 5 Comments »
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I spent a good hour yesterday trying to get SWFAddress 2.1 and SWFObject 2 to work together. First off, they do work together. Second, there's nothing to it. Then why did it take me an hour? Because I'm a dummy and I had the order in which each JavaScript set ...
Posted in Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Javascript | 4 Comments »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Out of boredom the other day I wrote this class to create a simple animated buffering indicator, you know...the ones we always see everywhere that look like a pinwheel. Here's an example of what you can do with it:
Posted in Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex | 4 Comments »
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Over the course of your career you often come up with solutions to such small problems that you completely forget about them. One instance for me is coming with a really simple way to ensure that a Flash site has a minimum height and/or width while using a liquid layout. ...
Posted in Flash, Javascript | 1 Comment »
