I wanted to try something fun with
Flash, so I did a quick search for "Flash Physics
Engine." Lo and behold, I struck gold. Box2DFlashAS3
is an open source ActionScript 3.0 conversion of the C++ Physics
Engine Box2D.
I'm very impressed with its well coded structure and easily
implemented nature. I learned a few new things that will change how
I code forever just by reading through their example files.
It's new year now. "Please show me how, do not tell me how" becomes more and more popular. Do you want to show your website or product in a fashion way at this golden season? This article describes how to make a flash video tutorial of your website or product in minutes.
With the recent release of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Web Premium package, Adobe are now able to fully realise the potential of owning not only the world’s favourite medium for delivery of rich media via the internet, Flash, but also two of the primary tools for designing and creating content, Photoshop and Illustrator. The huge potential of this package lies in its ability to integrate these three important applications and move towards streamlining the production process from concept to delivery, but the question remains, has Adobe lived up to this potential and presented a unified and coherent suite, or have they just churned out new versions of the same old titles without taking advantage of this opportunity?
Free DOM or Freedom, (Free Document Object Model) is a web development technique used for creating event driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions. It offers a new concept for creating binary persistent connections, allowing client and server to utilize memory and resources efficiently while communicating across TCP.
Freedom is designed to replace Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) by allowing async bidirectional event driven communication to the browser DOM (Document Object Model). Using the techniques will allow you to create webpages that act more like true software applications, increasing user interaction and usability.
FreeDOM uses common programming with Javascript and Flash to create a technique that is widely supported across many platforms including future web technologies to be released.
This is a step-by-step article that will guide you through the entire process of using VATech System's Active Log to log messages from Flash movie during runtime.
Learn how to work with the display list, DisplayObjects, and
DisplayObjectContainers in Actionscript 3.0 and how it has replaced the
concept of "depth" in actionscript 2.0. You should have a working
knowledge of depth in actionscriplt 2.0 and also how the flash player
displays content on the screen(stage). This tutorial is made for Flash CS3.
This full chapter excerpted from Colin Moock’s acclaimed “Essential ActionScript 2.0” covers exceptions and exception management through ActionScript in great detail. Ideal for the intermediate coder looking to increase the professionalism of their code, or save themselves hours of debugging.
This article focuses on Performance and Optimization of your Flash file and ActionScript code. Excerpted from O'Reilly's excellent "Flash Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools" (Chapter 9) it's a great read.
Part 2 in my series of "Better Design and Development". Its not required that you read part 1, but it helps. For those skipping part 1, this article is simply the lessons I've learned over my years in this industry.
This article will serve as a "Do's and Dont's" of web design and development. These will not be strict guidelines, but more the lessons I have learned over years of design and development to help better yourself. This will also be a multipart article so stayed tuned for future installments..
Difficulty: Intermediate Time: around 20 minutes Description: This article teaches you how to set up a Flash development environment with best practices as well as how to use GProject to create custom Classes using packages.
360PanViewerPro is a lightweight component designed to seamlessly loop an image, creating such effects as virtual tours, with little or no ActionScript required.
This is a review of the Peachpit Press publication "Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design
Patterns".
Snapshot
A strong, yet small book which provides a solid introduction
to best practices in general, not just Design Patterns. Recommended for anyone who
considers themselves an ActionScript coding professional, or aspires to become
one one.
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