Dragging in 3D – The Right Way
Real cool example of dragging in 3D
SWFObject 2 and SWFAddress
There seems to be an issue when using SWFObject 2 with SWFAddress; If a movie id is not specified through the optional “attributes” param in the embedSWF method -
swfobject.embedSWF( “main.swf”, “flashcontent”, “700″, “400″, “9″ )
, SWFAddress fails to initialise and generates an error:
B8? is undefined
G()()
swfaddress.js (line 8 ) index2.html()() (line 38) on this error?
if(typeof com==”undefined”){var com={}}i…E]==”id”){SWFAddress.addId(B[E+1])}}}}};
Once I changed it to the following, it worked perfectly:
swfobject.embedSWF( “main.swf”, “flashcontent”, “700″, “400″, “9″, null, {}, {}, {id: ‘main’} );
The docs for SWFAddress doesn’t specify that the ID attribute is required either. I spent a few hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong so hopefully this will help someone else to not do the same.
Google maps in Flash CS3
With the recent release of Google maps API for Flash, I was looking forward to giving it a run, BUT – the SWC that is available for download doesn’t seem to work with Flash CS3, only with Flex!
Flex is awesomeness alright, but if building a very stylized interface I find Flash much easier to deal with. I am just about to start on such a project and was disappointed to find that it didn’t work in Flash.
After doing some searching I came across this issue thread over at Google. Vincent has kindly shared a SWC that’s compatible with CS3, which works a treat!!
While this is excellent, I still hope that Google releases a official SWC for CS3 sometime soon…
Here’s first attempt at it! (Source)
Flash Components Resources
Jumpeye components Txteff text effect component – There’s a free basic version and the full version comes with 50 patterns. They also gave a whole range of other components – menus, controls etc.
Flash Particle Effects
Another nice Flash Particle Effects engine – FLINT
Oaxoa Blog » Asciify – Actionscript 3 (as3) Ascii Art class
Ascii Art in AS3 – friken sweeet!!
AS3 E4X Rundown
AS3 E4X Rundown – a good E4X reference/refresher
http://www.zeuslabs.us/2007/06/29/getting-advanced-with-e4x/
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/articles/e4x-beginner-to-advanced.html
http://freerpad.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-hierarchical-sorting-e4x-xml-for.html
Illegal Advertising
Illegal Advertising has some cool ads that we’ll probably not see on many mainstream stations. Another good site to kill some spare time!
MAD VERTICES: Papervision 3D Tutorials with Videos
Some excellent tutorials over at MAD VERTICES: Papervision 3D Tutorials with Videos
Opensource Client-side PDF Generator for AS3
AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library.
It allows you to generate PDF’s client-side.
AlivePDF is licensed under the MIT License. In other words, you can do whatever you want with it