I put together a simple OSX-esque squeeze effect to transition in dialogs in one of our projects. It never saw the light of day, but I stumbled on the proof of concept yesterday and thought I should share it. It uses DisplacementMapFilter and a simple tween… Here’s what it looks like…
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Conference recap
I’ve had the pleasure of attending a fair number of events in the past few weeks, and now that I’ve finally returned home (I’ve only been home for 1 week out of the past 8), I thought I would post a very brief recap. AS3 Workshop, onAIR tour, MAX North America, MAX Europe, FotB… Notes for all of my sessions.
Replace actions on labeled frames in AS3
I recently built a simple class called FrameScriptManager that allows you to set actions on any frame referenced by number or label at runtime from within a bound class. This allows developers to associate code with specific points in timeline animations or transitions, without having to modify the FLA. I also built an experimental version of the class that adds additional features…
The Great Pumpkin Showdown ’07
One of our favorite non-flash events here at gskinner.com is the pumpkin carving contest. This year was no exception, and we split into 4 teams (in order of seniority), and converted ordinary squash into ordinary squash with holes and a candle. Come and cast your vote!
Thermo User Personas
After watching the Thermo demo, one of the foremost questions I had was “Who will really use this tool?” As a way of answering this question for myself, I decided to create user personas for the three types of people I see using Thermo. These are based purely on what I saw at the demo and a large dose of wild speculation.
Minor Bug with Bitmap Smoothing in AS3
We recently encountered a problem where bitmap images that we created dynamically were not being properly smoothed when rotated and scaled. We couldn’t see any obvious reason for it â we were setting the container bitmap to smooth, tried every quality setting, but it still looked terrible… The answer turned out to be super simple, if not immediately obvious.
SCPlugin updated: SVN Support for OSX
The awesome folk working on SCPlugin for OSX have just released the 0.7 update. I haven’t started using the update yet (downloading it now), but according to the release notes, it’s a great release that should provide pretty much all the functionality Mac Flash developers will require in day-to-day Subversion use.
My New Puppy. So cute!
I don’t usually post personal content, but for a puppy, I’ll make an exception. I mean, who doesn’t like puppies? Photos after the jump.