It has been over 6 months that I haven’t used Flash, and even more since I worked on my own portfolio site. This weekend I decided to dive into it.. At first I thought I forgot everything, but pretty fast it came back :) I...
Author: adi
Status updates
First of all, apologies for the blue blog theme.. the good old orange theme will be back soon, didn’t have the time to customize the new version of K2 with the new version of wordpress, hopefully will put the orange theme back up next week....
How to stroke several sprites as one
If you’re trying to create a single stroke (outline, contour) over several sprites or movieClips, you can simply create a parent object to hold them and apply a glow filter to it. In this example (yeah, it’s an old and basic as2 thing, a test...
Silverlight, do I know you?
Mrinal Wadhwa: Microsoft Silverlight is a browser plugin and is sort of similar to Adobe’s Flash Player and Flex Framework taken together Adobe AIR is cross platform desktop runtime that allows developers to build desktop applications using web technologies, it has no real equivalent in...
The Year of the Flash
So much was written of the new flash player (version 10, code named “Astro”) and what it may do to the industry, it is indeed technologically inspiring, but from a freelance point of view (business wise) this even looks better. Looking back to when I...
K2 – Cool rich interface yet browsers compatible
I am very happy with the K2 wordpress theme (you’re watching it right now), beside having some pretty amazing browsing enhancements (I did not enable them yet, features like search results that appear as you type your search phrase, timeline view of your posts) it...
Glossy buttons in pure as3 code
I’ve been playing with the drawing classes, experimenting gradients and blending modes, and so I put together a small (basic) as3 class that generates a glossy button with pure code – no library assets. You can download the class here. The class constructor expects only...
PC is a blue screen in Mac networking icons
In Leopard’s (latest Mac OS) Finder networking, the default icon for PCs sports a typical error blue screen.. I love it : )
ResizeManager – simple scaling engine for MovieClips
Flash objects (SWF) can fill the entire Html body, and scale along with browser window as you resize it (it’s done by setting width and height attributes to 100% in the embed tags). However unless scaleMode is properly defined as well, the outcome may look...
scrollPane background customization – as3
I was trying to customize a scrollPane component (as3) and ran into some difficulties, I wanted to change the background of the panned area. The default background is kinda gray with rounded corners, I wanted it dark and strait corners. After far too much time...