So the other day a friend of mine asked me if I’d ever needed to set an FLVPlayback component to start with the volume muted (and the mute icon set to muted). I hadn’t, but I got thinking about it and after a little research found the easiest way to go about it is to [...]
Well it’s been a while since I last posted, and it seems I’m only posting when there’s a new issue of FFD out that I can plug – and seeing as that’s only once every two months, I’d say that’s fairly slack on my part! I guess the main reason for my lack of activity [...]
The April issue of Flash & Flex Developers Magazine is out and it’s well worth a read. This issue is packed with loads of good tutorials (connecting to your Wii from Flash, OOP in AS3 etc), reviews (numerous books and software) and an interview with Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow. Oh and buried in there [...]
A fair bit has been happening of late, which is a lame excuse for not updating this blog but it’s an excuse none the less. On Friday 13, I left the good people at Via Media to pursue a freelance career in Flash/Flex Development. I’ve been working at Via Media since it’s inception in mid [...]
***UPDATE*** This project has stopped working as it is part of a developers account – not commercial. *** I’ve been a bit lazy on the blogging side of things so I thought I’d kick off 2009 with a new post. I spent a few hours with the Ribbit API over the xmas break and I’ve [...]
Just a quick note – I’ve got an article coming out in the next issue of Flex & Flash Developers Magazine (which I believe will be out in December). The article is titled Getting Started with Google Maps in Flash is centred around using the GoogleMaps API from the Flash IDE. The lineup for the [...]
I’ve finally found some time to spend on my ImageTip class (a class that adds tooltip style images to words in an AS3 TextField). Check out the demo here. At this stage you can setup imagetips with either a set image source (url), or a comma separated tag list that will pull the most recent [...]
After playing around with calling AS3 functions from a html TextField in Flash I’ve decided to create an image tooltip class. As you can see from this basic example you just need to put the word you want to add the tooltip to in a custom ‘imagetip’ tag, and then set some attributes. In the [...]
Last night I wrote a quick AIR application that uses a Singleton written by Martin Legris. Basically you type in a word and if the spelling is incorrect, it will give you the closest suggestion from Yahoo!’s spelling suggestions. Click here or on the image below to download the app. Jassa
So the idea behind this started when I was playing around with 3D space in Astro (Flash Player 10) but I ran into a few walls. Anyway I wanted to finish it off so I made it in Papervision instead. For some reason I’m losing a few cubes in the lower frequencies, maybe they’re just [...]