We’ve come up with a couple of neat ideas for sessions at SXSW, but we need your help getting there. Take a look at the SXSW panel picker and vote for Big Spaceship in ‘08.
I direct linked to the Big Spaceship search to help you find us. (Is that cheating?)
August 8th, 2008 by Jamie / 1 CommentA lot of what we do here at the Spaceship involves complex SWFs loaded in and layered on top of other SWFs. We wind up with a lot of buttons nested underneath of movieclips nested inside of SWFs.
When we got to handling mouse interaction in AS2, this was fine so long as a button wasn’t layered on top of another button. But in AS3 it’s a different ball of wax — each DisplayObject has a mouseEnabled property, which is set to true by default. mouseEnabled means that the DisplayObject in question *can* react to mouse events.
This can be lead to some tricky and irritating issues. Hit the jump for specifically what is happening and how to fix it.
August 5th, 2008 by Jamie / 6 CommentsAdobe posted a preview release of Switchboard today on their labs site. Switchboard allows for communication from AIR applications to CS3 applications. Such possibilities! Anyone who has a chance to play with it feel free to post examples here.
June 18th, 2008 by Joshua / 0 CommentsChyrp 2.0 has been released as a beta. Looks like a complete overhaul. It only runs on PHP5 and I recently learned that it requires the PDO driver for MySQL which I didn’t have compiled into my local PHP build. As soon as we have time to do some testing and make some backups, we will be updating this blog to the new version.
June 18th, 2008 by Joshua / 2 CommentsInspired by Grant Skinners really nice SparkTable tool, i explored the Easing Equations a bit more today and tried to understand what the graphic actually showed.
I created a SparkTable-Class based on Skinners Code for an easier use in Flexbuilder. I rotated the animation so that the x-axis equals time. The bright colored graph shows the distance to its destination. The second, darker graph shows the speed.
Here is a comparison between Sine.easeOut, Sine.easeIn and Sine.easeInOut..
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