Monthly Archives: January 2010

Best practices for ActionScript 3

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Nuno Correia

Style Guide & Best Practices for ActionScript 3 (AS3): http://www.actionscript-flash-guru.com/blog/6-flash-gurus-style-guide-a-best-practices-for-actionscript-3-as3

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Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Nuno Correia

As previously mentioned, Flash CS5 will give Flash developers the ability to build and deploy native iPhone and iPod touch applications. With yesterday’s iPad announcement, the importance of designing for different screen sizes has become even more apparent. Android phones … Continue reading →

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Differences between Movie Clip, Sprite and Shape

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Nuno Correia

AS3 introduced a number of new DisplayObject classes, including Sprite and Shape. Unlike MovieClip, they do not have timelines of their own. Shape is a more lightweight type of object that has limited support for interactivity, and cannot have children. … Continue reading →

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Arduino and Flash

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Nuno Correia

At the Arduino web page/wiki, many resources can be found for combining Flash and Arduino, and for building physical computing projects with ActionScript. http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Flash

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We Choose the Moon – FWA website of the year

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Nuno Correia

FWA has picked wechoosethemoon.org as website of the year. Wechoosethemoon.org is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time.

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Augmented Reality in Flash

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Nuno Correia

FLAR is an Augmented Reality (AR) toolkit for Flash: http://www.libspark.org/wiki/saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en Adobe has posted a nice AR tutorial here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/augmented_reality.html

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HYPE – Flash framework by Joshua Davis and Branden Hall

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Nuno Correia

Last week I visited the Decode new media art exhibition at V&A Museum, London. There was one piece by Joshua Davis on display, and it was mentioned that it was built using the HYPE framework (by Joshua Davis and Branden … Continue reading →

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Course files Jan-Feb/2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Nuno Correia

The course files can be downloaded (or viewed, in the case of .swf´s) from here: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2010_01/ All old course files can be found here: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/

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Multimedia Authoring: Jan-Feb/2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Nuno Correia

The course is focused on the generative aspects of multimedia design and the authoring process, interface and interaction design and the control of media elements in interactive projects. Students will experiment with a broad range of media elements with an … Continue reading →

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Flash Player 10.1 on Google’s Nexus One phone

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Nuno Correia

Mashable published an article regarding Flash Player working on Google’s Nexus One phone: http://mashable.com/2010/01/06/flash-player-10-1-nexus-one/ It can be used to browse Flash-heavy sites and play online games, but it can also be used to deliver Flash-based ads. There article includes a … Continue reading →

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