20.12.08
32 CommentsFullScreen Flash Gallery Class v3
Sorry for those of you who got linked to a wrong url, i updated the permalink settings so that the title name is only apart of the url, so that for future updates it wont change again.
20-12-08 update:
- updated image navigation to include info button and now can be placed either top or bottom
- seperated MainImage and Thumb into individual classes
- updated to the lates tweenmax with tweengroup
- minor updates to code
Some of the new features in this version include:
- Auto generated album menu, that can be configured in the XML file. It also has a built in function that removes the menu when there is only 1 album
- Moved a majority of the settings to the XML file for easier updates
- Addressed ratio sizing on the full screen image
- Included a flash version 8 fla file (sorry for not including that before)
- And some code improvements to make it run smoother.
Demos:
Download fsgallery
Thanks to everyone who provided feedback and comments on the previous versions as it helped to identify the features that were missing and the issues that needed fixing. Keep the comments coming on this new version as well and let me know if you find any bugs or features that you want added.
Posted in Actionscript 2, Flash | 32 Comments
15.11.08
add commentFlash stats with MAMA
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/how_many_sites_use_flash/
Interesting post over at flash magazine about a recent survey performed by MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application). MAMA is Opera’s structural search engine with the study examining 3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,668 domains.
The results with total number of MAMA URLs using the Flash plugin was 1,176,227 (33.5%), ranging from 25% in Germany to 67.03% in China (I guess that says more about thier population than anything else). Below is a summary of the top 20 countries order by flash use:
Germany 25.00%
Denmark 25.33%
Austria 27.61%
Switzerland 27.60%
Sweden 27.70%
Australia 30.15%
Great Britain 30.27%
Canada 30.95%
Japan 31.75%
United States 32.57%
Russia 32.78%
Netherlands 37.20%
Norway 37.19%
Italy 40.32%
France 41.58%
Poland 42.37%
Czech Republic 43.10%
Spain 46.24%
Turkey 59.85%
China 67.03%
Posted in Flash | add comment
13.11.08
add commentAdopt a Village Flash Module
http://www.news.com.au/adoptavillage/
Here’s a flash piece i created last week for our site’s “Adopt a Village” campaign. Its relatively simple, but has been pretty affective raising over $3000 this week alone.
Donate if you can…
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12.11.08
add comment3D CMYK flash separation experiment
http://www.flashgamer.com/2008/11/another_cmyk_separation_in_3d.html
Found over at flash gamer, this little experiement separates the CMYK channels into different planes with the “multiply” blend method applied which can be rotated in 3d.
quite nice!
Posted in Flash, Inspiration | add comment
25.10.08
2 CommentsNews.com.au homepage re-launched
The new homepage for http://www.news.com.au has finally launched after many delays. Well done to the team, who slaved away for a long period of time to make this happen.
My part in all of this was in building the news visualiser flash module that appears above the fold. You need to click the news visualiser tab to view it properly.
I love the way it looks and works now. The customisation of the news modules is brilliant and so easy to manage with the drag and drop interface.
Posted in Flash, News, On the web | 2 Comments
07.10.08
2 CommentsPapervision simplified
Wish we had some decent flash conference’s here in Oz. Here’s a video of Seb Lee-Delisle’s presentation of Papervision 3D simplified at this years Flash on the Beach.
Seb Lee-Delisle - Papervision3D Simplified from Peter Elst on Vimeo.
Posted in Flash | 2 Comments
06.10.08
add commentdynamic letterspacing in flash
http://bobspace.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/flash-yourmomgettextformat-is-the-key-to-letterspacing/
A very handy and relatively simple example from bobspace.wordpress.com of how to achieve letter spacing for dynamic text in flash.
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07.01.08
5 CommentsTop Flash ActionScript Forums
Don’t you hate it when you’re working on a flash project and hit a brickwall with a certain issue you just can’t seem to fix?
I know I’ve been in the situation many of times, especially when I was working as the sole flash designer/coder at my previous company, and most of the times I could find the answer by either trolling through the many flash forums I visit or creating a new thread when the answer is not available in an existing thread.
So here are the top flash forums around in no particular order and some statistics to give you an idea of the amount of content that’s available. The stat’s were taken around a day or so ago so the figures might have changed since then.
Posted in Flash | 5 Comments