Wake up and breathe the fresh air (pun intented)! Flash builder 4.5 is released and I have to say it’s a great release. And I’m not just talking about the move towards mobile but more about the small things that make a hardened flash programmer just a little bit happier. Did Adobe finally meet the [...]
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How to play a local mp3 file in flash
Last week I was playing around with visualizing music in flash (follow post) and of course you want to share that with the rest of the interwebs. Now I am aware that some people don’t share my musical preference so I decided to pull the example with my personal songs from the site and implement [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, audio /
3D rotation at runtime with 2 lines of code
In the weeks before my workshop at Multi-mania (getting up to speed with native 3D) I spend a lot of time experimenting with some new api’s. One thing that I kinda needed from the start is a decent rotation class to rotate an object in 3D (at runtime). So I set off and create 2 [...]
Actionscript3 tip: faster property initializing
I was looking for a way to set parameters more quickly to newly added childs and I found out something interesting. (Note that this will not result in faster code execution, it’s merely to type less . I did some testing for the performance, check it out at the bottom of the page.) Normally when [...]
Category: ActionScript 3 /
Tags: ActionScript 3
Tag people in your pictures using dreamweaver CS4
You all probably use facebook. One of the features is that you can tag people in your photos. On roll over a small popup is shown with the name of your contact. Recently I was giving a course about dreamweaver CS4 and upon playing around with the (spry) tooltips and the image maps, the students [...]
ColdFusion 9 and ORM: Write all, read some
Just a little thing I found out today using Coldfusion 9 new ORM feature. Say you have a login system based on a user table, this can easily be done with orm. You just create a cfc where you define your database fileds as parameters and call the necessary orm function. Out of the box [...]
An update to a simple facade
I developed a small flash component that keeps track of all the notifications (using my simple facade) that are send within your flash application. It will show you in a log format which notifications have been sent and also gives you an overview of which class is connected to which notification type. Of course this [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, Flash /
Creating cool text effects with actionscript 3
With the introduction of actionscript 3, one of the classes that came with a lot of new features is the Textfield class. To be more specific, we now have access to more information about the textfields content such as character, paragraphs and line metrics. The goal in this blog post is to show you how [...]
fl packages in flex/flash builder
Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn’t find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that error wasn’t so weird [...]
Adobe certified expert
So yesterday I finally took the time to do my recertification for Flash CS4 (93%) and I must say I finished with mixed feelings. Sure I was happy that I now can finally put that certified expert/instructor logo on my site but the exam experience itself was a little bit dissapointing. First of all, a [...]
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