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 this project-based workshop, Joseph Labrecque teaches you how to use some of the more advanced features in Adobe Edge Animate 1.0, including responsive layout design, external data consumption, and dynamic content generation. You’ll also learn about using compositions on mobile devices, generating content from Flash Professional for use in Animate, and a variety of …
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend, and speak at, the Adobe Education Exchange Live event in Toronto, Ontario back on November 9th. The event piggy-backed onto the larger DesignThinkers conference being held at the same time and both events led up the Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) ceremony. The session I gave …
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 …
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 …
I’m very pleased to announce that my new book “Learning Adobe Edge Animate” is now in print and available through the publisher and is soon to be made available a wide variety of international retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the like. For those looking for digital versions; these will be available shortly …
Based upon conversations and feedback I’ve received since the original announcement, I have been able to somewhat organize the project and come up with what I consider to be a reasonable submissions deadline. We also have two additional submission forms to make this process as pain-free as humanly possible; one for music and one strictly …
Emergent Collective Two : Contributor Submissions Read More »
Project Monocle (codename) is an upcoming tool from Adobe to profile ActionScript 3 (Flash Player and AIR) applications on both desktop and mobile. It provides an amazing level of insight into just about all aspecs of an application across time. If you would like a general overview of its capabilities, here is a nice video. …
I have a lot of presentations coming up for the next two months and it’s often helpful to high-lite them in a blog post like this. Normally at this time of the year, I detail all of the Adobe MAX related sessions I’m involved with… and we all know that ain’t happening. In place of …
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Create the Web event that Adobe put on in San Francisco early last week. During this one day event, Adobe basically revealed their plans for tooling and services around web standards with a series of announcements, walkthroughs, and deep dives. As someone who is heavily invested in …
Adobe rolled out a bunch of new Flash goodies on the Labs site this evening; a new version of SWF Investigator, a Configurator release candidate, and the first betas of Flash Player 11.5 and AIR 3.5! We also have a new updater for Flash Professional CS6 and the announcement of the Adobe Game Jams… phew! …
During the Create the Web event in San Francisco today, Adobe is making a number of major new tooling and service announcements having to do specifically with web standards. Not only are these announcements centered around advances such as CSS Filters and other standards work being discussed; but also a huge reveal in the form …
Create the Web: Announcing the Adobe Edge Family! Read More »