Managing the files dependencies – MASAPI – Presentation Slides
If you are interested in the MASAPI project, you can see the presentation slides made by Cédric Tabin about it on the website of AUGG (Adobe User Group Geneva). Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Category Archives: Flash
Massloading API (Flash AS3 Framework for the massive loading)
Tonight at AUGG Cédric Tabin presented us his “massloading API”, (MASAPI project) for AS3. The target of the Masapi is to provide a complete framework dedicated to the management of the massive loading into a flash/flex application. It is designed to be as easy as possible to use but also to be as flexible as… Read More »
Flash Player 10 named: Astro
Good news from Emmy Huang, Flash 10 is now officially codenamed “ASTRO”. The changes were so impressive with Flash Player 9, I’m wondering what they will do this time to free up our imagination. Mike Huntingtonhas to set up a whishlist, so if you got any idea go for it. Flash Player 10 will be… Read More »
20.65% of the top 5000 sites use Flash ?
This result surprised me, really. I thought that it would be much higher. I understand that it is not a worldwide statistics but app. 1/5 of top 5000 sites using Flash is really not a good sign or is it? Hard to find information to compare Flash against other technologies, maybe because Flash is quite… Read More »
Creating movie clips with reflections in ActionScript 3.0
New article in Flash Developer Center: The reflect Class from Ben Pritchard […]This tutorial steps you through the creation of the Reflect class, a custom ActionScript 3.0 class that you can apply to reflections on movie clips […]. The Reflect class is intended for any developer or designer who would like to achieve an effect… Read More »
Actionscript 3.0 Video Tutorial #10: Interaction between AS3 and JS
A new ActionScript 3.0 tutorial is just out, thanks to the awful weather we got here in Geneva… This tutorial is about interaction between ActionScript and JavaScript. Calling functions from both languages is really easy since Flash8 and it did not change with Flash CS3. In this tutorial we call function from AS to JS… Read More »
Actionscript 3.0 Video Tutorial #9: Connecting with a Database
Finally, I found the time to make a new video tutorial about AS3: How to send and receive values to/from a database with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0. Using a server sided script (in this example php). Basically it will do simply what you could do so hardly with AJAX: asynchronous request. I used Captivate… Read More »
Is Div replacement considered by Google as cloaking?
I was reading the post from Google Webmaster Central (link via FlashEnabled), about the best uses of Flash. Someone (Jason) commented that the was to use JavaScript (SWFObject) to make the Div replacement, another one warned him about the danger as being considered as cloaking by the Google Bot. Personally I used this technique in… Read More »
Papervision3D Public Beta
Since the first time I’ve heard about Papervision I’ve always been stunned by the demo provided. Today is a great day as they are going live for their Public Beta. Papervision3D moves from private testing to a full public beta. Everybody is welcome to download and start playing with it. We believe you will find… Read More »
3D Pathfinding in AS3
[via: Beedigital, draw.logic] Source code to download of pathfinding with AS3 in 3D! The actionscript architect Paul Spitzer has posted two killer demos of pathfinding using A* in AS3/Flash 9 using the Away3D engine (derivative of Papervision3D that is taking off) and you can download the source for both. These demos not only highlight the… Read More »
Passing variable from JavaScript To AS3 (Flash CS3)
Passing vars from JS to AS3 is really easy, but it’s not as easy as it was with AS2. Here I use the excellent SWFObjects (I use it in all my web projects now) to pass variables to the Flash Player: so.addVariable(“var1”, “value1”); so.addVariable(“var2”, “value2”); Now to get the values with AS3 when you already… Read More »
AIR Panel for Flash
Grant Skinner has post an update of his AIR Panel for Flash. you can have all the installation instruction from his previous post. The AIR Panel works very good here 🙂 Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Filtering XML data in Flash applications using ECMAScript for XML
Introduced with ActionScript 3.0 and Adobe Flash Player 9, ECMAScript for XML (E4X) offers new ways to retrieve data from XML in Adobe Flash applications. In this article I examine how you can use E4X to fetch data out of an XML object within an application in real time—processing only the information required to run… Read More »
Object-oriented programming with ActionScript 3.0
New article from the ActionScript Technology Center by Peter Elst about Object-oriented programming with AS3. I know a lot of Flasher only used some procedural programming but now the AS3 change it all. You really need to understand well OOP to have the most of Flash CS3 and Flex. The concept of classes is at… Read More »
New Actionscript 3 tutorials
Tomorrow, I’ll have my last exam for this year, and then finish for University for some month 😉 During the last 3 month I haven’t published any new video tutorial about Flash CS3, but they are coming soon! One will be about interacting with a Database, the other will be about interaction between javascript and… Read More »