Adobe is looking for true Adobe enthusiasts to be interviewed on-camera for the production of a video to be shown at the annual Adobe Users Conference in Chicago – Adobe MAX. Adobe luminaries such as Duane Nickull, Grant Skinner, Eric Natzke, Ben Forta, Mike Chambers, Mike Downey, Raymond Camden, and Mike Sundermeyer will also be taking part in the video.
Results for: flash
AS 3 Workshop in Toronto with Grant Skinner
I’ve had a lot of people asking me when I’m going to run another workshop… I will be running a one day workshop in Toronto on Introductory ActionScript 3, in partnership with FitC and RMI. As with all my workshops, it will pack a ton of content into the time available, starting with basic AS3 and proceeding quickly into more advanced topics…
SWFBridge: Easier AS3 to AS2 Communication
SWFBridge makes establishing two way communication between SWFs via LocalConnection much easier. This is useful for talking between different SWFs embedded on the same HTML page, but especially for communicating between an ActionScript 3 application SWF, and loaded AS 2 content SWFs. You can download it here.
Yggdrasil 3D: World Tree in Papervision 3D and AS3
I finally squeezed in a little time to tinker with Papervision 3D, and the result is Yggdrasil 3D. The Yggdrasil is the world tree in Norse mythology that spans the underworld, earth and the heavens. The scene is generated entirely programmatically (no prebuilt textures or models).
Building a Static EventDispatcher in AS3
We have had several AS3 projects that have had a need for an EventDispatcher that is not instance-based. So, here is an approach to building a static EventDispatcher that we have used since our AS2 days:
Accessing EnterFrame Events in non-Display Objects
Once in a while you want to be able to have an object carry out actions on a frame interval. This is simple to accomplish when you’re working with a DisplayObject, because you can just subscribe to its ENTER_FRAME event directly, but there are times when you need this functionality in a non-display object without passing around a reference to a movieclip…
StyleCollection for CS3 Components
The StyleCollection class lets you create groups of styles that are applied and automatically updated on subscribing components. It supports both instance and renderer styles (setStyle and setRendererStyle respectively), and uses component introspection to apply only relevant styles to each component. StyleCollection exposes a robust interface, including a static interface that provides global access to named style collections.
Variable Scrollbar Width for CS3 Components
I’ve seen a few people asking for the ability to have variable scrollbar widths in the Flash CS3 component set. Unfortunately, it wasn’t something we were able to get in for the release, but since then I have put a bit of time into the feature, and believe I have it working satisfactorily with all components.