Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

Dec 9, 2008

AS3 - XML Include…

A while back now I needed to insert data from one xml file to another at runtime (in flash). After a failed search for something that would do it for me (in AS3 at least), I made this...

XIncludeXMLLoader

In the zip there's a FlashDevelop project set up with an example to get you started. There's no documentation at present, but it's fairly straight forward to use.
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Oct 1, 2008

Flash on iPhone confirmed by Adobe

Currently in Brighton at the 'fantastic' Flash on the Beach conference, yesterday at an Adobe Town Hall meeting session an exec. from Adobe confirmed that they are working on Flash for the iPhone, didn't give much away. Read more here...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10054749-1.html

Sep 12, 2008

Play With Spider

I just came accross this very well executed Flash simulation of a spider. You can drag it around, change its size, etc. Click here to check it out.

Sep 8, 2008

Developing for FlashPlayer 10?

I've recently been testing out some of the new features available in FlashPlayer 10, building with FlashDevelop+FlexSDK (FD beta8 makes it easy to build for FP10 - yay) and running swfs in the standalone FP10 debug player.

All was well, but I soon found myself maxing out the cpu with some simple audio operations...

After a coule of tests I found the currently available debug players will execute code a lot slower than non-debug players, even hanging or crashing in some cases.

So, use the FP10 release candidate plugin from adobe labs for faster code execution - but no debugging...

Sep 2, 2008

Panasonic Everything Matters

Came across this cool flash site for Panasonic. It's got a real nice Explorative feel to it, with cool use of Flash to access some pretty interesting/engaging content.

Aug 22, 2008

Coign of Vantage

I stumbled upon a very interesting flash game called Coign of Vantage the other day. It makes very interesting use of 3D and perspective to creative quite an addictive game.

Aug 6, 2008

Search visually…

viewzi.com

"...a whole new way to search. More fun, more entertaining, more interesting, more effective..."

With this lovely new search site/tool you can view combined results from multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Flikr, and more...) in various visual layouts.

Each of the available 'views' is a real treat - spend some time with them and have fun searching.

Jul 31, 2008

Things you may have missed…

Things move fast in the world of flash - so just in case you've been less than attentive, here's a few cool things from the recent to the nearly now...

SourceBinder - "...a node-based visual framework for easy prototyping and real-time tuning of Flash based visual applications." -

Liquid Components - a free, open source component set for Flash CS3.

Hobnox AudioTool - an impressive browser based audio synthesis/processing tools with a fair few retro synths and effects recreated for your delight.

AudioTool

Hobnox - AudioTool