Archive for the ‘Actionscript 3’ Category

Flash Notice Maker

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Evening all – since it’s been a while since i posted (busy busy – Mayday Network Phase II in full swing) – I thought i’d have a trawl through the archives and see what I could find. Here’s what I came up with, a Flash notice maker I made for a client a few months ago (quickly re-branded :) ).

This one’s AS3 and can be used to create notices while maintaining the corporate format. Put in your title and body copy (the text will resize to fit), hit print and out of your printer will pop a beautifully formatted notice, corporate font and colours intact, in a handy, print friendly A4. It also adds a little ‘created on…’ tag to try and avoid out of date notices floating about everywhere.

Here’s the file – usual rules apply – credit me if you’re feeling generous. And if you feel like improving it (I’ll hold my hands up – the text resize can be a little fiddly) do so and send me the file.

Flash countup / countdown

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

It’s February, and if i’m not mistaken a little milder. So with that and other positive thoughts in mind here’s a constant reminder of the age of this blog (at the time of writing pretty new), and therefore the age of its creator – me (at the time of writing not) in the form of a Flash (AS2) countup. Slowly ticking off the seconds into oblivion.

And here, somewhat confusingly built in AS3, is a much more cheerfull countdown to our next birthday.

The files are here so download them and get counting, the possibilties are endless – as long as they’re in some way related to counting.

UPDATE: Due to popular demand here are the files in CS3 format…

Flash Actionscript 3 drawing app

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Happy New Year and all that. Bit of a delay between posts there I know, I did say that I wouldn’t keep up the pace though. Here’s an AS3 sketching gadget I made a while ago, feel free to create some masterpieces, save them off and if you like you can send them to me – if they’re any good, i’ll publish them in a future entry.
Note: you’ll need to allow pop ups from this site before you can save your image. Annoying I know but i’ll sort out a fix when i get a minute.

To edit and use this you’ll need the ActionScript 3 Core Library as the JPEG creation utilises one of it’s classes. It also uses a bit of PHP on the back end, just to call the image saving dialogue so you can save the image to your PC. Most of the functions in this are pretty basic and it has a few faults – most notably the eraser doesn’t work on the text. You’ll need to clear the whole screen to get rid of it. If anyone has the time or inclination to fix it send me the new files and i’ll upload them here. Anyway the files are here so download them and go crazy!

Flash dynamic page titles

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Here’s something I knocked up for a client to keep intranet page titles in the corporate font. It’s a simple bit of Flash and AS3 embedded with some javascript. The Flash file has the relevant font embedded in a dynamic text field and the javascript passes colour and size and the word or sentence as Flashvars to render. Below is an example in Christmasy red Helvetica Neue.

The script also incorporates the AC_OETags javascript from the Adobe Flash player detection kit to replace the SWF with the specified text rendered as normal HTML if flash is not present on the users system. Download the source files and have a play.