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…
I felt like posting this here, because I keep forgetting how to use Luis’ very helpful Proxy class…
When 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…
Just a very basic sample of how to use CSS in flash
Maybe 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.
Have you ever realized about the rounding error when using the MovieClip._alpha property?
A few links realted with the use of video in flash…
Toys, Toys and more Toys…but not for kids
Small 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.
Some useful information about excluding files in flash:
Flash XML Exclusion File Enable / disable _exclude.xml files
How 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
Recently I found a very nice Best Practices chapter called “Using Best Practices” inside the Using ActionScript book in Flash help .
The 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.