toDeBlog » Contribution http://todepoint.com/blog A blog about User Interface, User Experience, Design, Flash, Product management and all that goes in between. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:19:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pure code AS3 spinning loading animation http://todepoint.com/blog/2010/07/22/spinning_animation-as3/ http://todepoint.com/blog/2010/07/22/spinning_animation-as3/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:35:26 +0000 adi http://todepoint.com/blog/?p=104 While working on the video player, I wanted to show spinning loading animation while buffering, and since I decided that the whole thing will be pure code, with no library assets, I had to code this animation – just the kind of things I like.
It didn’t take long, and I decided to share it – why not?

So here it is:

loader animation with action script 3 code

What you need to do in order to use it is add two functions:


import LoadAnim;
...
private var myAnim :LoadAnim;
...

public function showAnim():void
{
myAnim = new LoadAnim(0x333333); // animation color
myAnim.x = stage.stageWidth / 2;
myAnim.y = stage.stageHeight / 2;
addChild(myAnim);
}

public function hideAnim():void
{
myAnim.stopAnim();
removeChildAt(1);
}

Download the class here, enjoy : )

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Better late than never.

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I was using all kind of FTP clients along the years, mainlly on PC’s, and my Mac was always neglected because there was no decent client to work with. when I found this great free application – Cyberduck – I was surprized how well it works and how intuitive the interface is.
I contacted David the auther and joined him to translate cyberduck to Hebrew.
If you use FTP on a Mac – it’s a must-have application, Cyberduck 2.7.2 is to be released within the next two days,

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