Posts Tagged ‘Flash’
Merry Christmas from Scriptic December 26th, 2010
Backward Santa
Hello all, a day late I know but here’s my Christmas Post. After a hellish journey involving 40 odd hours on a variety of Coaches, Trains, Cars and Boats I finally arrived in Chelm, Poland yesterday at around 5. Just in time for Christmas dinner – and after all that I didn’t even get a white Christmas – which I was under the impression I was gauranteed of when I’m practically in Siberia. Never mind.
Anyway, since I haven’t done any post worthy work of late I’ve been digging through the archives once again and found this Christmassy game which I made as an e-christmas card for an agency I was working for some years ago (hence the branding).
This is so old I havent bothered posting the source files – I have no idea what version of Flash it was built in but it’s certainly AS1 – if you want them, however, just let me know.
Anyway – once again have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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 countup / countdown 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.
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 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 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.
