While thinking about some cool examples for the JSFL File API introduced with the 7.2 updater for Flash MX 2004, I came up with the idea of building an MP3 player panel for the Flash IDE. Think about it, practically everyone likes to have his/her favourite music on while coding away in ActionScript ;) It read more
The Text shadow timeline effect allows you to set an x offset, y offset and color for a shadow to be created for the selected textfield. It can probably best be described as a down-to-basics version of the built-in dropshadow effect, another great starting point for getting involved with building your own Timeline effects. You read more
For those that attended my presentation on JSFL at Flashtival yesterday, I’m packaging up some of the examples I’ve shown starting with the Triangle tool. This is about the easiest example I could think of and is a great way to get started with creating your own Tools for the Flash IDE. I’ve got a read more
If you’re not at Flashtival, Rotterdam right now you’re missing out on what I think could be the coolest Flash talk of the year. Peter Hall is just presenting a session on DDF (Document Driven Flash) which allows pages to be reused as both HTML and Flash. Using simple Dreamweaver generated HTML, some JavaScript and read more
I’ve been working on a cool little windowSWF widget for the Flash IDE that allows you to easily preview custom styles for the built-in UI components without having to compile your project each and every time. I’ll be showing the code for this in my session on JSFL at Flashtival, Rotterdam this coming Monday after read more
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