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 BETAS,EXAMPLES,FEATURED,FLASH PLATFORM,FLASH PLAYER 10,FLEX IDE,GENERAL,TUTORIALS         4 comments

Yesterday a student from my class ask me to help him solve a problem that was getting when testing Tom Krcha’s example files of his Multicast Streaming tutorial. Here’s the fix.

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FEATURED,FLASH,FLASH CS5,FLASH PLATFORM,FRAMEWORKS,OPEN SOURCE,TUTORIALS         1 comment

One of the first things You want to do when playing with the HYPE framework is to output your creations to a printable file and guess what?  Joshua and Branden have already think on that, hype includes a the class ContextSavePNG that will let you output your hype generated images …

 ADOBE OS,EXAMPLES,FEATURED,FLASHDEVELOP,OPEN SOURCE,TUTORIALS         10 comments

Adobe recently made available Flex PMD a tool that lets you keep track of your code bad practices and helps you  by auditing your source directory and displaying  common errors such as:

Unused code (functions, variables, constants, etc.)
Inefficient code (misuse of dynamic filters, heavy constructors, etc.)
Over-complex code (nested loops, too many …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLEX IDE,OPEN SOURCE,TUTORIALS         3 comments

Richard Lord has recently released the Version 0.9.4 of Flint.

I made this example using Flint particle system is an Actionscript 3.0 Open Source project with the aim of create a library that handles the common functionality for all particle systems. To see it work just click anywhere on stage and …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLASH CS3,FLASH IDE,FLEX IDE,TUTORIALS         No comments

Click on the image to see the example and get the code.
A pair of days ago I found the blog of Sorin Haidan in wish he post some very useful tutorials on Flash and Actionscript 3.0 in a very understandable way, I found one that caught my attention called Draw …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLASH IDE,TUTORIALS         3 comments

Based on the great tutorial of Lee Brimelow, called Advanced Filter Effects I started messing around with the ColorMatrixFilter(); an Actionscript 3.0 Class that lets you apply a 4×5 matrix transformation in the RGB color and alpha values to the pixels of an image, and produce a new RGBA alpha …

 3D,ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLEX IDE,OPEN SOURCE,TUTORIALS         2 comments

Here’s a little try on the new Papervision3D Branch Effects based on the tutorial/example of Andy Zupko, the new pixel effects added to the branch look great, this was made using Flex 3 Beta 3.

Check it here.
Download Source here

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLASH IDE,TUTORIALS         5 comments

Ok this is a little tip for Dragging your clips on Actionscript 3.0, remember how we used a lot of tricks in Flash to drag a clip from other points that weren’t the anchor point , well in Actionscript 3.0 (herenow AS3) is quite simple to do that by using …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,TUTORIALS         1 comment

This is an example of how the computeSpectrum works on Flash CS3, I’ts just great the posible things you can make with it , this is based on a great example made by Peter deHaan In my example I just made the spectrum being represented by circles and have …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0,EXAMPLES,TUTORIALS         3 comments

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 …