Archive for September, 2004

  • MP3 Player for the Flash IDE using JSFL File API

    MP3 Player for the Flash IDE using JSFL File API

    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...

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  • Text shadow timeline effect

    Text shadow timeline effect

    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...

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  • Triangle tool

    Triangle tool

    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...

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  • Flashtival update

    Flashtival update

    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...

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  • Preview component styles through windowSWF

    Preview component styles through windowSWF

    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...

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