Since Flash Player 9, we’ve been able to use the BitmapData.draw() method in order to capture visual data from a display object. The major limitation of using this method, is that it will render the visual at the stage quality with which the swf has been embedded/compiled. One trick to get around this is to […]
AS3 Quickie – drawWithQuality() Read More »
In the past, if we wanted to copy some data from a camera object to a bitmap, we would need to draw the data from the display object using flash.display.BitmapData.draw() and then manipulate it in some way. This is problematic at times… if there is no way of knowing whether we have valid bitmap data
AS3 Quickie – Event.VIDEO_FRAME and Camera.drawToBitmapData() Read More »
In the past, we’ve been able to attach a local camera to Video display objects within Flash Player with relative ease. The flash.media.Video object, of course, is part of the traditional display list and is not accelerated by the system GPU whatsoever. Using the newer flash.media.StageVideo object, we can implement a GPU-accelerated video display beneath
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With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to listen for a frame label event is now included in the runtimes. For example; if you have a MovieClip symbol with a certain set of animation within it, and you have a number of frame labels defined upon the symbol’s timeline… you can now listen for
AS3 Quickie – Frame Label Events Read More »
I’m still doing loads of ActionScript work in both my regular job and in side projects – so thought I might start posting some tiny, useful snippets of AS3 here as I encounter them. This is, I suppose, both for my own archive and for anyone out in the community that cares to pick up
AS3 Quickie: Check if a variable is Numeric Read More »
Yeah- I hit a pretty big milestone this week with the draft for my book on Android and Flash Platform development (the book is still untitled). I’ve submitted 5 chapters and am mid-way through a 6th. This actually places me about a month and a half ahead of schedule, which is pretty darn good. 180
Cookbook Draft is Half-Way Cooked Read More »
Over on the Google Analytics weblog, they’ve posted about a new (official) AS3 library for GA! Apparently, the library is pretty robust, featuring; Metrics, Dimensions, Filters, Sequenced Pagination, and Data Views. I’ve dealt with Google Analytics and Flash in the past using the Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash ActionScript 3 API which, from my
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An article I had written on using a variety of ActionScript and Alchemy-based audio encoding libraries in Flash Player has been published over at CodeBass. Check it out and even play with the demo set from within your web browser. Full source code and links to referenced AS3 libraries is also available. Nice to finally
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While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements that can be included within a tweet; links, usernames, and hashtags. I was able to find regular expressions to do all the heavy lifting from various sources on
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Just a quick tip for those looking to somehow display the AIR application version from the descriptor file. I’ve found it very helpful in troubleshooting is users can say EXACTLY what version of the app they are running. AIR 2.5 and later: private function getAppVersion():String { var appXml:XML = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor; var ns:Namespace = appXml.namespace(); var
Quick Tip: Display Application Version in your AIR App. Read More »
This is the final post in a three part tutorial detailing the creation of a Flash slideshow widget using ActionScript 3.0. Have a look over Part 1 and Part 2 before moving ahead. In this post, we are examining the two methods which actually handle image loading and display within our module. private function switchImage(e:TimerEvent):void
Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 3 Read More »
In Part 1, we had a look at the basic structure of what we are working toward, including a PHP file to read images from a directory and return a list of images to Flash, the setup of our FLA, and the basic construction of our document class. This widget, being so simple, will only
Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 2 Read More »