As we enter a new ‘post-Flash’ era Adobe are piling in with ‘HTML5’ tools. Flash Professional CS6 can be used to create Javascript animation via the createJS framework. Adobe have released an extension for Flash Professional called the Toolkit for CreateJS that lets you build an animation in the traditional way and then export it…
Read MoreEver needed to replace all the instances of a string in Javascript (or ActionScript)? This function takes three parameters, the string to find, the string to replace it, the string to search and an optional setting to toggle case sensitivity. Syntax .replaceAll(target:string, findToRemove:string, replacement:string, [caseSensitive:int=0 ]) Example function call searching the string “Bob, bob and…
Read MoreAdobe P P P Piss Off a Penguin With Flash it was supposed to be build once play anywhere. But having lost the Flash Player on mobile it looks like Linux users are next in line – at least in terms of a comprehensive service. I was at the London Flash Platform User Group’s event…
Read MoreAdobe Edge, available in beta, is a ‘post Flash’ animation tool. It generates animations constructed with web standards HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript (mainly piggy backing on jQuery). The interface is very familiar to Adobe After Effects in terms of the timeline and property keyframes. In terms of functionality it has the lightweight options for adding…
Read MoreLoads of news coming out from Adobe this week as they hold their Annual Beanfeast MAX. There was the obligatory Photoshop pixel fairy magic. The one that got people most excited appeared to be the ‘deblur’ tool. Expect this to replace the Content Aware Fill as the killer Photoshop demo to wow your audience. But…
Read MoreGoogle have announced on their Geo Developers Blog that they are deprecated support for the Flash based Maps API. They claim this is so they can focus more resources on the JavaScript Maps API v3. The Flash API was introduced back in 2008 when Flash was probably at its peak. The decline of Flash, is in…
Read MoreI was a bit of a twit until I discovered twips. When positioning display objects in Actionscript we use the x and y properties. These related to pixels. But what if you need half a pixel or 0.12345 of a pixel. Flash does allow you to position object using ‘twips’. A twip is 1/20 of…
Read MoreEnjoying the Glastonbury coverage from the BBC on this wet weekend. The best festival in the world and the best music. But I’m not able to enjoy it on my iPad. The cool kids may be knocking Flash but you can’t beat it for live event streaming like Glasto. U2 may be an old band,…
Read MoreFlashvars allow you to get data into to your SWF file from the calling HTML. Easy to use just add a flashvars parameter to your HTML. I use ‘swfobject’ as follows: Then in your actionscript use: to reference the variable.
Read MoreIn my last post I showed how to communicate from Javascript to ActionScript. To do so I used ExternalInterface in my ActionScript. ExternalInterface allows traffic to flows both ways. We’ll start in ActionScript this time. Ensure you have imported the ExternalInterface class. Then create a call to Javascript using the ‘call’ method of the ExternalInterface…
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