All Flash developers dealing with components like the DataGrid or the List component eventually run into the design limitations in Flash 8. We need a solution to load images into the grid or list. There are many solutions out there but 2 are most known.
2. Sephiroth Image CellRenderer
Each of these solution are great and very well known. They also seem to work perfectly with the DataGrid component. I ran into problems when trying to use these solutions with the List component.
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I have recently been working on a Logo creating application. We will be releasing it this month, until then I cannot post a link. Part of the task was to move some items around on the stage and then take a ‘photo’ of them, photo being a bitmap. In the application itself this process was very in depth and went well beyond what I will discuss in this tutorial. This tutorial is merely a sample of how to move multiple MovieClips around on inside a container, and then shoot a bitmap of them. ( Read More »)
One of my favorite websites, Nike Skateboarding, has a great navigation system. The floating menu has been around for a long time, in both flash and javascript. It is nothing new. But the thing that really grabbed me was the rollovers. A very simple drop shadow used so effectively. Very nice work.
After seeing this, I felt the need to recreate it on my own. We have been getting into Flash 9 and Action Script 3.0 over at
nothingGrinder so I thought it would be appropriate to do this tutorial in AS3!
**NOTICE** Recently I have discovered a much better way to manage the buttons than I have listed here. I will be updating this tutorial to match my current knowledge of ActionScript 3.0. Please check back for updates, I assure you it will be worthwhile. Thanks.
Have been working on a new project for a Japanese client.
We are building a system to create and edit personal and professional logos. The tricky part of this application is the fonts. Usually , in English, a font weighs anywhere from 10k to 60k. In Japanese you are looking at about 3mb to 9mb per font. This creates some major loading issues in the application.
Here is a page dedicated to Flash Runtime Font Sharing.
I’ve recently been working on a new Flash project. As always I’m using AMFPHP and Flash NetConnection to access the database and some backend services. Flash remoting, for me and many others, has always been a very robust solution to dealing with external data retrieval in Flash. From the moment I read about it, I became a dedicated fan. After implementing all my data-driven media-based sites with it, I have no complaints. It rocks! The newest version AMFPHP 1.9 beta, is faster and better, from an OOP perspective. You now have strict data typing between flash and the backend, and the backend can be set up to handle non-flash instances sent from flash…. basically, you can instantiate an Object directly from Flash! amazing! ( Read More »)