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I wanted to add some value to the readers, who primarily will be doing all sorts and different forms of web based work, from web design to development & even flash so I wanted to share with you some of my favourite tools that I love to use in every day web design. Theres very few ‘Eureka’ programs I come across but these are certainly way up there. So in no particular...
read moreHey all, have you been getting this crazy error message when trying to access the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.menu on windows?: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property menu through a reference with static type flash.desktop:InteractiveIcon. Everything in the livedocs leaves me to believe that a reference like that would work on windows machines, but it doesn’t. I...
read moreSome of you may be familiar with rapid prototyping. It is a concept i learnt from the Experimental gameplay project, specifically this article by Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray (2D Boy, World of Goo), Matt Kucic, Shalin Shodhan. Rapid Prototyping is a great way to develop new ideas quickly. I use rapid prototyping all the time whether it be in AS3 or Javascript, a game or an application. Whilst game and...
read moreHey Wuup readers. After going through all my older AS3 Basics articles, I found that most of them didn’t really go over the core elements. So in order to rectify the problem, I’ve decided that it’s time to flesh out this area a little. I’m by no means an expert on the language – unless you count 3 years experience as expert material – But I do know what does what,...
read moreSo i’ve been writing some CD launchers recently with some handy tools on. One thing i had major trouble with was getting a Projector .exe to run programs from sub directorys. Luckily i figured it out so heres how… First in your CD/DVD root directory place a folder named “fscommand” this is the only folder which the projector will be able to see (from my experience,...
read moreHey all, Just a quick post to let you know we’ve released some small apps that we’ve created. you can find them on our new Software Page. The applications use Adobe AIR which is cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac). Happy...
read moreRecently i’ve been messing about with Flash’s built in components, for the most part they are self explanatory and easy enough to figure out from Adobes docs. Recently however i have had to use editable DataGrids in a form type scenario, I could create and display a DataGrid fine, but when it came to collect the data from it? I was completely stumped, Mainly because DataGrids utilize...
read moreOk so after about a month of Alan nagging me to post something, i’ve decided to write more about the core basics of the AS3 Language, Mainly because my previous “AS3 Basics” tutorials actually covered advanced topics. So each week i’ve set myself the task of explaining a core AS3 element, be it a class or language basics. IF Statements So if your just starting out in...
read moreWhen it comes to visitors and your website, we all hear the seemingly ‘unlikely’ statistic that if we don’t catch the attention of the user in someting like half a second, then they will navagate away. Unfortunatley this statistic is true, due to us the users literally being spoilt for choice when it comes to content. It’s changed our browsing habbits as users, we want...
read moreHi all just thought it’d be good to tell ye all how to change the quality of your movie with actionscript so it changes on runtime. Quick Code: stage.quality = StageQuality.LOW; stage.quality = StageQuality.MEDIUM; stage.quality = StageQuality.BEST; Simply paste one of these into your actions layer and huzzar! the quality will be altered! Peace...
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