Last week we sat around muttering to ourselves about how nice it would be to create a simple utility that would port our AS2 code to AS3. Turns out we weren’t the only ones thinking about it. Patrick Mineault wowed us yet again with his converter.
November 16th, 2006 by Stephen / 3 CommentsThis week Adobe has discussed the release of scripting engine source code (AVM2) to the Mozilla Foundation. Its called the Tamarin project. Read more about it on JD on EP and on mozilla.org.
If you haven’t built in your own debugging system for testing flash in browsers, then this Firefox FlashTracer extension could prove to be very useful. It allows you to see traces made from inside your swfs. Handy indeed!
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Furthering the techniques learned in the Tri and Matrix classes, the Quad class makes distortion possible. Manipulate 4 corners of a MovieClip. Give it a try [ view | download | code ]
November 6th, 2006 by Stephen / 4 CommentsHave you ever noticed your bitmap fonts looking fuzzy in flash? It happens when your text field is set to non-integer x and y values. If you run into this commonly, there’s a perfect utility for you. Check out 5etdemi’s unblur text post.
Also, if you do a lot of site testing using multiple versions of flash (and you’re a savvy PC user) check out: Sephiroth’s Flash switcher Firefox extension.
And last but certainly not least, Asual has a new toy that handles deep linking (and a host of other usability issues) for you. Its called SWFAdress 1.0 and its definitely worth a look.
November 3rd, 2006 by Stephen / 1 CommentThe addition of the Matrix class has allowed for new ways of MovieClip manipulation. Anyone familiar with Director will recall the sprite quad property, which allowed for rotation, skewing, and distortion by manipulating the corners of a sprite. Due to limitations of the Matrix class distortion is not possible, but the Tri class will give you the other two. Give it a try [ view | download | code ]
November 2nd, 2006 by Stephen / 1 Comment
