Stefan did a really good job on this and best of all is that he is offering cu3ber free of charge. When the page gets loaded, the CU3ER is initiated and first what it will look for is an XML configuration file (optionally .swf font file too, if the defined variable of this file was found). This will be loaded for future use. After loading and parsing XML, the CU3ER configures itself by its defined settings. Then it starts loading images (slides). As soon as the first image is fully loaded, it is displayed and the rest of the images are loaded in the background. Either a 3D transition to the next image is applied after the specific amount of time has passed or the user’s input (mouse click) is “listened” to and an action performed accordingly, depending on the configuration settings. It is as simple as that!.
Adobe just released the “ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API”
The library is an updated version of a library originally developed by Jason Crist. The guys at gskinner have been working with Adobe, Facebook, and Jason to extend it to support all of the Facebook APIs (Canvas, Connect, and Desktop), and to clean up some of the code. That’s not to imply that Jason’s original work wasn’t great, there’s just a limit to how much you can do for free as one guy on an open source project.
The end result is an open source AS3 API that mirrors the documented Facebook API almost exactly. They’ve also added a few helper methods, and some samples to make it easier to get started.
The dudes at greensock announced a new addition to their tween family. It’s called TweenReallySuperDuperExtraMaxWithCheeseOnTop. actually the new addition is called TweenGroup.
At my current Job I spend a lot of time creating mockups. I usually use flash for this as i am very comfortable in doing anything in flash, so it’s quick and easy for me.
I’ve been playing around with Balsamiq Mockups which seems to be a great quick easy design tool for developers, designers and those who aren’t tech savvy at all.
“Mockups For Desktop allows you to work on your UI wherever you are, regardless of your Internet connection. Plus you can load and save multiple mockups files, use all keyboard shortcuts and lots more.”
Add a countdown to 2009 widget for your website. Copy the embed code and paste it in your blog post or HTML. Contact me if you want another date to countdown to and I will supply you with the SWF.
In this quick tutorial I will demonstrate how to create a sun effect with rotating sunrays. We will achieve this with some basic ActionScript and a some flash creativity.
This is what we will create.
So let’s get started.
1. Let’s start off with creating the core of the sun. Use the circle tool and draw the core of the sun in the middle of the stage.
2. Convert it to a symbol and call it sunwhole_mc.
3. Inside the sun symbol create 2 extra layers. One for action, one for the rays and one for the sun. Read the rest of this entry »
A quick and easy way to stream YouTube video into you flash files is by using PHP to grab the stream from the YouTube server and sending it to your flash document. This comes in quite handy if you are strapped for server space or if you want to put less stress on your bandwidth usage. And you also get to stream those classics.
In this example we will grab the file and stream it into flash.
In this tutorial I will show you how to load dynamic text into your flash document and then format it with CSS. This is really useful for a news section or text that regularly needs updating.
Overview
We will create a dynamic text field in Flash. Then load a normal text document formated with HTML tags. Finally we will apply the CSS to the dynamic text field. Read the rest of this entry »
In this quick tutorial you can learn how to add a custom context menu to you flash content. You can add a menu to a specific MovieClip or to the whole Stage area. I will show you both methods. Read the rest of this entry »
