Monthly Archive for April, 2007

A new update on the Flash Player 9

Published
by
swfgeek
on April 17, 2007
in FLASH PLAYER and GENERAL
. 2 Comments

Adobe have released an update to Flash Player 9, the Flash Player 9.0.45.0 is out and fixes some bugs that could affect content created with Flash CS3 Professional.That lead me to think that it’s the first time that a Flash Authoring Tool will come after its corresponding SWF Player release wish in my personal thinking it’s good because there’s already a good acceptance number (Flash Player 9 at 83.4% in the March 2007 penetration study) on the player, that means less”You have to update Your Flash Player for the content we made” when the Adobe Flash CS3 comes out. Emmy Huang, Group Product Manager for the Flash Player team, has a blog post that goes over the update in detail.

Kelvin Luck’s Flasher

Published
by
swfgeek
on April 1, 2007
in ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0, EXAMPLES, GENERAL and TUTORIALS
. 2 Comments

flashrTest

Yesterday my wife asked me if I could somehow display her flickr archives on her personal website. And to be quite frank I had been playing with the flickr API but never gave me the time to make something real out of it, so I started googling around and found out this great Actionscript 2.0 wrapper called Flashr by Kelvin Luck that makes it easy to develop Flash applications to display and interact with photos on flickr.com.

So this is a very simple example (based on an tutorial of the version 0.4 of Flashr and I updated it to work with the current version (0.5)) of what can be done with Flashr but I plan to add more functionality and eyecandy to it (I’ll upload the result of that).

I almost forgot here’s the script that make this work:

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import com.kelvinluck.flashr.core.Flashr;
import com.kelvinluck.flashr.core.Photo;
import com.kelvinluck.flashr.core.Photoset;
import com.kelvinluck.flashr.core.Person;
import com.kelvinluck.flashr.core.FlashrResponse;
import com.kelvinluck.util.LogWrapper;
import com.dynamicflash.utils.Delegate;
 
class com.cecymeade.UserRecentPhotos {
var xMax:Number = 214;
var yMax:Number = 214;
var xTemp:Number;
var yTemp:Number;
var apiKey:String = "Your Flickr API key here";
var userNsid:String = "90349680@N00";
var _target:MovieClip;
 
function UserRecentPhotos(target:MovieClip) {
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
LogWrapper.getInstance().init();
LogWrapper.getInstance().addTracePublisher();
_target = target;
var _flashr:Flashr = Flashr.getFlashr();
_flashr.apiKey = apiKey;
var _flashrResponse:FlashrResponse = new FlashrResponse();
_flashrResponse.setSuppressOutput(true);
_flashrResponse.onPeopleGetPublicPhotos = Delegate.create(this, onPeopleGetPublicPhotos);
_flashr.peopleGetPublicPhotos(userNsid, null, 16, 1);
}
 
function onPeopleGetPublicPhotos(p:Person):Void {
var photosArray:Array = p.getPhotos();
var userNsid:String = p.nsid;
for (var i:Number = 0; i
var thisPhoto:Photo = Photo(photosArray[i]);
var mc:MovieClip = _target.createEmptyMovieClip("photo"+i, i);
mc._x = 1+(i%4)*76;
mc._y = 1+Math.floor(i/4)*76;
mc.createEmptyMovieClip("jpgHolder", 1);
mc.jpgHolder.loadMovie(thisPhoto.thumbnailUrl);
mc.xMax = xMax;
mc.yMax = yMax;
var freeDepth = (_root.getNextHighestDepth());
mc.onRollOver = function() {
xTemp = this._x;
yTemp = this._y;
this._x = Math.min(xTemp, xMax);
this._y = Math.min(yTemp, yMax);
this.swapDepths(freeDepth);
this._xscale = this._yscale=120;
};
mc.onRollOut = function() {
this._x = xTemp;
this._y = yTemp;
this._xscale = this._yscale=100;
};
mc.photo = thisPhoto;
mc.onPress = function() {
getURL(this["photo"].photoPageUrl, "_blank");
};
}
}
 
public static function main():Void {
var u:UserRecentPhotos = new UserRecentPhotos(_root);
}
 
public function toString():String {
return "[com.cecymeade.UserRecentPhotos]";
}
 
}

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