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EMC xCP Documentum October 26th, 2010
www.emc.com/xcp
Another dry spell there, I really need to get back in the posting habit. Maybe with the evenings drawing in it’ll be easier. Anyway, here’s something new – A Flash micro site to promote EMC’s xCP Documentum software. The site is built for Flash player 9.0 and is coded in Actionscript 3.0.
There’s all sorts of delights going on in the background and this was a great site to do to get my Flash skills back up to scratch – the content is all driven by an XML back end, from links and assets (images, videos etc.), to the site copy. This meant all the content areas and buttons had to be expandable (to a point at least, I could only be as flexible as the design). This also meant that the language of the site could be easily changed allowing for roll out in multiple countries. By setting a language variable in the XML the flash movie will dynamically load in and embed the correct font and character set (using a class written by my predecessor at The Crocodile).
The site also uses the excellent SWFAddress JavaScript library by Asual to control deep linking meaning all sections of the site can be externally linked to and the browser navigation can be used.
Finally the ‘Solutions’ section has a cover flow system created with Papervision3D.
This was a pretty hardcore re-introduction to Flash after a long absence but it was kind of fun to build and really allowed me to expand my Flash skills so all well worthwhile.
Hopefully the next Scriptic installment will be something downloadable and scripty as I only seem to post websites these days. Untill then bye bye!
Flash dynamic page titles 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.
