Category: Flash
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Multitouch Paint
Multitouch Paint ( I haven’t given it a proper name yet) is a painting application I have been working on over the last couple weeks. Basically I wanted to create an app that was more then simple solid lines you see with most other Flash painting programs. I wanted something that was more like paint…
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Videos from Adobe MAX Sneaks
Below is some videos taken at the Adobe MAX 2010 conferences during Sneaks sessions. Sneaks sessions are a chance for Adobe to demonstrate prototypes and new technologies that may or may not make it into future Adobe products. Some pretty interesting stuff! Typography of Code- a new way of displaying and reading code for designers…
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The future of 3D and Flash
Below are some videos from the new 3D apis codenamed ‘Molehill’ to be included in the next version of Flash. This was announced at the Adobe MAX conference yesterday. This is some pretty amazing stuff… full 3D maps and all done on the GPU.
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UberSnake – my Flash snake game
Heres what I’ve been doing this week… making a Flash version of the old game ‘Snake’ which I’m sure a lot of people spent plenty of time playing on the old Nokia phones. This game had a lot of firsts for me in relation to ActionScript. This is the first thing I’ve done completely from…
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MotionList – part 2
I’ve made some more progress on my MotionList class over the last couple of days. Some new features in the current demo below are:
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MotionList – Windows Phone 7 Metro UI style lists
Here is small experiment I’ve done in AS3 called Motion List. Motion List is a class that creates a list or grid of items with similar animations to the upcoming Windows Phone 7 UI’s ‘Metro’ transitions. I love the new UI for WP7 and thought I’d try and recreate a little bit of it in…
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AS3: Code hinting, completion and highlighting in Air apps
Over the last couple of months I have been working on a text editor, for which I made a history manager class that I posted about a little while back. This time as a bit of an experiment/challenge I tried to include some code hinting and code completion functionality to the editor similar to Dreamweaver,…
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Magnetic Words Multitouch App
Here is a small app I created in Flash in less than 10 minutes (most of that time was getting words!). Inspired by those fridge magnets which are a bunch of words that can be mixed and matched to make obscure and hilarious sentences. Excuse the dodgey touch response at the start… my screen still…
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AS3 – Getting the order of MovieClips in the stage
Here is yet another small code snippet which allows you to get the order of MovieClips that are positioned on the stage. Source for the demo above: Download
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AS3 – Detecting Control, Shift and Alt keyboard shortcuts
Here is a snippet of code which allows you to detect keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl+[another key] and ctrl+shift+[another key]. I wasn’t able to find any decent examples of detecting shortcuts but after reading the AS3 documentation I found that the Keyboard event contains the following boolean properties [cc lang=”actionscript3″] ctrlKey shiftKey altKey [/cc] So…