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Efflex – Designer Effects for Flex

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Following my presentation at FOTB I’ve decided to set up and separate site and code repository for the effects work I’ve been doing with Flex.

You can find a very preliminary site over at www.efflex.org.

Currently there’s just a link to the repository, the presentation, and an example of the current effects.

I’ll try and update it with a list of bugs, an email to submit bugs too, a list etc etc as I get more time. For the time being if anyone has any questions or problems you can email me at blogATtink.ws.

You can also view a test run of the presentation I did a LFPUG a couple of days before here.

Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 9, Flex 3.0, Talks | 12 Comments »

SuperTileList – Flash CS3

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Here’s another of our additional components we used in a recent project and presented at LFPUG.

It adds the following styles to TileList.

verticalGap – the vertical spacing between item renderers.
horizontalGap – the horizontal spacing between item renderers.
scrollBarScale – the vertical scale of the VScrollBar if shown, and horizontal scale of the HScrollBar is shown.
easing – the easing applied to the item renderers position.
rendererDiration – the direction the item renderers are layed out. Can be horizontal or vertical.

Here’s an example of the component in action (right click for source).

You can get the component source from out Google Code.

Posted in Flash 9, Flash Player 9 | 5 Comments »

Additional Flash CS3 Components

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

In a recent project we required some additional functionality to the default components that come with Flash CS3. Here’s examples for some of them which we have added to our Google Code Library.

ArrowlessScrollBar
AutoSizeButtonExample
TweeningComboBoxExample

Posted in Flash 9, Flash Player 9 | 9 Comments »

Library & LibraryManager

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Here’s and example of our Library & LibraryManager classes that we use in some of our Flex and AS 3.0 projects to manage our external assets stored in SWF’s.

The classes enabled you to create multiple libraries of embedded (retaining and giving access to code) or loaded SWF’s.

You can create instance of Library wherever you want, but you can also create them through the LibraryManager giving you a single class to gain access to all your Library instances.

Here’s a quick example creating 2 Library instances using the LibraryManager. Each Library contains 2 SWF’s, each containing a BitmapData and MovieClip which are created using the Library. One Library instance embeds the SWF’s the other loads them. Not shown in the example, but you can also have a mix of loaded and embedded SWF’s in the same Library, and they contain fonts as well as custom classes.

LibraryExample
LibraryExample source (NOTE: The source has already been edited but not updated here. I suggest you pull down the latest version from our google code repository)

You can obviously get it one our Google Code repository.

Posted in ActionScript, ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 9, Flex 3.0 | 23 Comments »

Five3D for AS 3.0

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I got an email from Mathieu Badimon this morning:

The FIVe3D package has been ported in ActionScript 3.0. This new release is named version 2.0. Feel free to download it online at the following address: http://five3D.mathieu-badimon.com

The new package has the exact same functionalities as the previous package in ActionScript 2.0. Those who previously worked with FIVe3D will easily keep track of their work. A future version 2.1 will be released in the coming weeks and will feature new and original options. The online documentation will also be available online soon.

A “typography file” generator is now downloadable online for both the version 1.0 and 2.0 of the package. New examples with a downloadable source code will also be added to the gallery as well.

If you don’t know of Five3D, its an interactive vector based 3D engine. Definitely worth checking out and having in your toolbox!

Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 9, Personal | 5 Comments »

Feature Requests for Flash 9

Monday, August 14th, 2006

The ever listening Flash team are asking for your feature requests for Flash 9.

These have been split into 3 categories:

1. Feature requests for the Flash Player (player only).
2. Feature requests for interactive designers and developers (authoring only).
3. Feature requests for designers and animators (authoring only).

If you require a feature, explain in as much deatail as possible what you require and why. Obviously not everything everyone writes can be implemented and I know it can be frustrating when your particular feature your requested isn’t implemented. The point here is that you get a chance to get your point across direct to the team, so try and support them in their decisions. They are listening to you!

Posted in Flash 9, Flash Player 9 | No Comments »

Flex 2.0 and Flash 9 on Linux?

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Running in Ubuntu, Adam has managed to get Flex Builder 2.0 working as a plugin in Eclipse and Flash Player 9 installed for Firefox.

London Flash Platform User Group July 2006

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Ohhh yeah we’re back! After a great meeting night last month, we move just down the round to the offices of AKQA, the main sponsor of this months event.

As usual (or as last time) we’ll have two sessions. Dave Williamson will be covering localization and I’ll be doing a first look at the preview of Flash 9.

Last months videos, presentaions and files etc are now online (Flash Media Fun Hour (22/06/2006), Ruby On Rails for the Flex Developer (22/06/2006)).

Big thanks ths month to AKQA for hosting us, and I also have to thank Rocket Boots and Computer Arts for giving us some goodies.

London Flash Platform User Group 27th July 2006 (27/07/2006).

Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Events, Flash 8, Flash Player 9 | 5 Comments »

Use the Correct Type for the Job

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Have you been put off from using the correct type for the job after reading the recent infomation from Sho and Grant about speed of uint and int compared to Number? Obviously this information is worth noting, but the 2 post titles ‘Avoid ints in ActionScript‘ and ‘Types in AS3: ints not so fast, uints slow! ‘ are bound to put some people off using them at all and sticking with Number, which they shouldn’t do.

I chatted about their results with Peter Hall the other day, with the conclusion that I will continue to use uint and int in the correct places.

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Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 9, Flex 2.0 | 14 Comments »