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Flash CS4 and ThickBox

by admin November 26, 2009 Mix

Do you want work with Flash CS4 and ThickBox ? Here is a couple of examples that show how to call ThickBox using Actionscript 3.0 . >> VIEW THE DEMO The SWF with two buttons is embed in a html file with the following code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> [...]

Tagged as: actionscript 3.0 and thickbox, actionscript thickbox, flash cs4 and thickbox, flash thickbox

Using Vector class and drawTriangles method of Flash CS4

by admin October 10, 2009 drawing API

Using Vector Graphics and classes of Actionscript 3.0, we can draw triangles. ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS4 (so you need the Flash Player 10) provides the method drawTriangles. For those unfamiliar with the Vector class in Actionscript 3.0, available for Flash Player 10, is a data structure similar to that of the array. Implements the [...]

Tagged as: draw triangles, drawtriangles, Flash CS4, vector, vector class

Flash CS4 eraser effect using lineBitmapStyle method

by admin October 8, 2009 Animations CS4

We have seen how to create a drawing board and export PNG from SWF at runtime, this time we’ll see how to create an eraser effect using Actionscript 3.0. I divided the tutorial into two samples, the first one uses lineStyle method with the same color of SWF’s background, in this case, however, is necessary [...]

Tagged as: Animations, effects, erase effect, eraser

Using Pixel Bender with Flash CS4

by admin March 19, 2009 Pixel Bender

The Adobe Pixel Bender technology delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure which provides automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. …wowowowo some difficult words here… hehe, don’t worry ! We’ll see that using Pixel Bender is not so difficult as it seems. You can use the Pixel Bender kernel language to implement image processing [...]

Tagged as: Pixel Bender, pixelbender

Z axis Flash CS4 example 2

by admin February 26, 2009 Flash CS4

We have seen that the MovieClip class of Flash CS4 has a new property z. Now look at a practical example on which to apply precisely this effect-feeling three-dimensional. In this tutorial we will see how to apply the Z axis to image that if you click exchange the view between them. I create a [...]

Tagged as: Animations, Flash CS4, z axis, z property

Resizing SWF at real time

by admin November 28, 2008 Flash CS3

Not everyone knows that you can change the size of a SWF in real time, at runtime. When Flash CS3 came out many of us hoped that the new version of Actionscript allowed to set the size of the stage so that we could change the size of the SWF embedded in html page. We [...]

Tagged as: ExternalInterface, Javascript

Flash CS4 rotationX and rotationY

by admin November 25, 2008 Flash CS4

We saw that MovieClip class of Flash CS4 has a new property, the z property. We will see how to create animations even with that property but today I want to write about other 2 new rotationX rotationY These two new properties manage rotations on the axes X, Y and you can create decidedly new [...]

Tagged as: Flash CS4, rotationX, rotationY

Understanding MovieClip z property of Flash CS4

by admin November 23, 2008 Flash CS4

What ‘s the first thing that jumps to eyes when you are reading the MovieClip class reference of Flash CS4? Of course the z property ! With Flash CS3 we saw how to simulate it: 3D images viewer z-axis simulation with Flash CS3 The big news of Flash CS4 is that we will not go [...]

Tagged as: 3D, flash 3D, tridimension, z property