Tag Archives: ActionScript
Flash CS5 for iphone – well sorta…
Wonder about the performance, but worth checking out.
From Mike Chambers’ Blog, “The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies (including ActionScript 3). These applications are just like any other iPhone application and can be distributed via the Apple iTunes Application store. Indeed, there are already a [...]
Flash Links & Reference
Just added a new page of useful flash links: Flash Links & Reference
Charles HTTP Monitor
Here’s a handy tool when developing for web services/amfphp/flash remoting making it a breeze to see what is actually be transferred. Check it out here: http://www.charlesproxy.com
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the [...]
Play Next FLV
Don’t know why this is always a hassle, but here is a simple way to play .flv’s one after another (actionscript 3.0). The NetStatusEvent.COMPLETE is oddly inconsistent.
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, detectEnd);
function detectEnd(myevent:NetStatusEvent):void {
switch (myevent.info.code) {
case “NetStream.Play.Stop”:
trace(”stop”);
//play video
ns.play(”video/vide.flv”);
break;
}
}
2D ActionScript 3.0 Physics Engine
2D ActionScript 3.0 Physics Engine
APE (Actionscript Physics Engine) is a free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License. APE by Alec Cove.
ActionScript 3D (pv3d-like) Data Visualizations
Very interesting 3d visualizations here over at http://www.bestiario.org using their own 3D framework.
Points on a Sphere (PV3D)
Handy snippet from massivecube for distributing exact amount of points on the surface of a sphere.
http://blog.massivecube.com/?p=9
Tweener
My favorite tweener engine for Flash – in both AS2 and 3. Simple, clean and fast.
Docs are here:
http://hosted.zeh.com.br/tweener/docs/en-us/
Flare Visualization Toolkit
Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in [...]
Full Screen Flash
Nice tutorial of full screen flash setup here over at gotoandlearn.