Usage of the Proxy class
Friday, April 29th, 2005 by ThomasI felt like posting this here, because I keep forgetting how to use Luis’ very helpful Proxy class…
Archive for April, 2005
Dynamic TextFields with system font
Friday, April 29th, 2005 by ThomasWhen creating dynamic TextFields with embedFonts=false - especially when modifying an existing project for not-embeddable charactersets like chinese - and things don’t look the way they’re supposed to, check the following…
Flash: Using CSS
Friday, April 29th, 2005 by LuisJust a very basic sample of how to use CSS in flash
Flash: Depth Control
Thursday, April 28th, 2005 by LuisMaybe is old news but I didn’t know about it. Basically I found the mx.behaviors.DepthControl in one of the example files provided with MX Pro.
Flash: Inaccuracies in the _alpha property
Thursday, April 28th, 2005 by LuisHave you ever realized about the rounding error when using the MovieClip._alpha property?
Flash and Video
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 by LuisA few links realted with the use of video in flash…
Toys
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 by LuisToys, Toys and more Toys…but not for kids
Slideshow class
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 by LuisSmall Slideshow class
You can use key arrows to go through the pictures and space bar to play and pause, write comments to each picture and change the type of transition.
At the moment is supporting just two transition types, fadeInOut and colorBurn.
Exclude files in flash
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 by LuisSome useful information about excluding files in flash:
Flash XML Exclusion File Enable / disable _exclude.xml files
Hackaday on your playstation portable
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 by LuisHow to hack the browser that is used to download updates to function as a general web browser in your playstation portable.
Turn a 2600 joystick into a PSP Battery Pack
Working with best practices in Flash
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 by LuisRecently I found a very nice Best Practices chapter called “Using Best Practices” inside the Using ActionScript book in Flash help .
A Virtual Camera (ActionScript for Non-Coders)
Sunday, April 24th, 2005 by LuisThe only way to simulate camera pans, fades, and zooms in flash is using only tweens, and this can take a very long time to set up or change.
Here there is a perfect solution in order to create a Virtual camera that can itself be animated. This allows you to create the sort of camera work seen in traditional films, including pans, zooms, and fades.
