Source code, demo, and docs for an AS3 Kaleidoscope / symmetry class. It’s fast and robust, supporting one or more slices, reflection, display objects or bitmapdata as a source, rotation / position offsets, and a fast mode.
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Playing Records (Vinyl) With ActionScript
Friday morning I woke up with the random idea to try to simulate the playing records in Flash. Here’s a quick explanation of how I got it working…
Wander Motion Class
I recently put together a class for managing “wandering” motion in AS3, and thought I would share it. It’s a pretty flexible class, with a lot of different options… I’ve also been playing around with it to make high resolution outputs.
How Can Adobe Encourage a Commercial Ecosystem?
I think most people can agree that the Flash platform suffers due to the lack of a healthy commercial component ecosystem. With that in mind I thought it would make sense to solicit feedback on how to improve the environment for commercial libraries and components. I’ll work to consolidate the feedback, and try to funnel it to appropriate people at Adobe.
Thoughts on Adobe Squiggly & Developer Relations
Squiggly is the new spell checking component that Adobe recently released on labs. I haven’t had a chance to test it in depth, so I’m not sure yet how it compares to our Spelling Plus Library, but I have to admit that its release frustrated me a bit. Adobe needs to take a long term view and embrace a culture of supporting their developers both technically and from a business perspective.
FitC Edmonton: All-Star Speakers, $99
Just a quick reminder to everyone: FitC is coming to Edmonton in under 3 weeks. It’s going to be the best Flash / interactive conference Western Canada has ever seen with an all-star speaker list, incl: Lee Brimelow, Mike Chambers, Ralph Hauwert, Mario Klingemann, Erik Natzke, Stacey Mulcahy, James Paterson.
cacheAsBitmapOptions
I just filed a feature request for Flash player, asking for a cacheAsBitmapOptions property on display objects to make cacheAsBitmap functionality more useful by allowing you to specify whether to preserve the cached bitmap through transformations like rotation, scaling, and alpha changes.
Fanbase Goes Multi-Screen: Desktop, CD, iPhone
Atlantic Records recently announced the launch of two projects that we’ve been working on with them: the first Fanbase Connected album, and Fanbase for iPhone. Fanbase Desktop is an award winning AIR application, developed with Flex and Flash that connects music fans with each other and their favourite artists through chat, forums, news, photos, videos, music, events, and more.