Author Archives: Nuno Correia

XML Namespaces

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Links about XML Namespaces (W3C and Wikipedia links): http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Namespace

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Information Visualization

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Some links about information visualization: http://www.infosthetics.com http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ http://www.processingblogs.org/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/ (mostly reposted from this post by Miska Knapek)

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Course files

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

The course files can be downloaded (or viewed, in the case of .swf´s) from here: http://mlab.uiah.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2007_09/

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Library for JavaScript

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Marcus also mentioned this link for a JavaScript grapical library: http://script.aculo.us/

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Papervision: 3D in Flash

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Marcus has just mentioned this great link to a Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash: http://blog.papervision3d.org

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Adobe – Creating Liquid UIs

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Article and tutorial on creating liquid GUIs with Flash, Flex Builder, and ActionScript 3.0 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/liquid_gui.html (useful for allowing the user to resize the browser window, maintaining the alignements)

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ActionScript 3.0 sample project: AVOL

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Nuno Correia

This is a link to my latest project, still in test stage: www.videojackstudios.com/avol It was my first significant ActionScript 3.0 project. We’ll be using samples from its code in the first day of the course.

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Classes and inheritance in ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Nuno Correia

These Adobe documents are a good introduction to Classes and Sub-Classes: Strategies for designing a class http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000032.html Inheritance http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000068.html

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Adobe – Flash Development Center – Quick Starts

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Adobe’s Flash Development Center has a very useful Quick Starts section with short tutorials on different key features of ActionScript 3.0. I’ve provided direct links to the ones I find more useful: Embedding fonts Event handling Display list programming Creating … Continue reading →

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What’s new in ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Nuno Correia

“Although ActionScript 3.0 contains many classes and features that will be familiar to ActionScript programmers, ActionScript 3.0 is architecturally and conceptually different from previous versions of ActionScript. The enhancements in ActionScript 3.0 include new features of the core language and … Continue reading →

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