Category Archives: Flash

Animation by code: Motion as XML

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Nuno Correia

The “Copy Motion as XML” functionality in Flash can lead to some very interesting results. Besides a video mention in a previous post, you can also follow this tutorial on the subject: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/creating_animation_as3_07.html

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Animation by code: Tween class

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Nuno Correia

As a complement to today’s focus on animation, the Tween class (and related classes) in AS3 can be used to quickly create animations by code. Link to a tutorial on the Tween class: http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3tweenclass/ Adobe AS3 reference: http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/transitions/Tween.html

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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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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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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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Full-screen mode in Flash

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Adobe article regarding full screen functionality in ActionScript, from Flash Player 9 onwards: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html

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