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FlashDen

Posted by James - 30/09/07 at 03:09:50 pm

I’m surprised I haven’t come across FlashDen before, but here’s the deal…

FlashDen sells premade flash ‘bits’. It’s like a marketplace, with every user able to buy and sell flash files, all for pretty reasonable prices. (We’re talking $2 - $30 here.) And the files are anything from Preloader bars to fully-featured xml-driven portfolios. It’s worth a look.

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ActionScript: getURL vs. ExternalInterface - When & Why

Posted by James - 23/09/07 at 10:09:31 am

This post all stems from a project I’ve been working on very recently, making a drop-down menu in flash, that sits in a HTML page. What we’re talking in relation to here is, getting flash to execute JavaScript DOM functions.

Now, there are couple of ways for Flash to interact with its host page. The first one that springs to mind is getURL(), the same function that enables flash to load webpages. The second requires a little more preparation, and is ExternalInterface.call(). Both have an upside and both a downside. One’s old-school and one’s new-school. There are however, real reasons why you should use one instead of the other in different situations. Continue reading ActionScript: getURL vs. ExternalInterface - When & Why…

ilovejackdaniels.com - Web design, development and marketing

Posted by James - 13/09/07 at 09:09:59 pm

Unusual name, great blog.  Run by Dave Child, and focusing on everything from marketing ideas to programming cheat sheets, it’s certainly worth a visit.  Theres’ a host of decent articles, and the website practises what it preaches and looks very good for it.

Aaagh! Hacked!

Posted by James - 09/09/07 at 06:09:04 pm

Sorry for the downtime - it would appear that everyones’ favorate arch-villains did a do-over and knocked us out.

I guess it’s time for more protection…

MovieClip Saturation Class - ActionScript 2

Posted by James - 04/09/07 at 11:09:37 pm

This ActionScript 2.0 Class enables you to easily adjust the colour saturation of any Flash MovieClip during runtime. It requires Flash Player version 8 or above, and uses the ColourTransformationMatrix and some clever jiggery-pokery to adjust the RGBA channels of your MovieClips. In short, it’s sweet - and fills a gap in the built-in flash filter classes.

Have a look at this flash movie (below) to see the end result, all generated from the same MovieClip.

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