Category Archives: Flash

I'm a Movie Star

Posted on October 28, 2008 by keith

When I was out in San Francisco for Flash Forward this summer, I was asked to come over to Adobe to shoot some video. They put makeup on my face and asked me a bunch of questions under hot lights … Continue reading →

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CS4 MetaData JSFL Script

Posted on October 27, 2008 by keith

It’s been a while since I’ve done much with JSFL, but I’ve been playing with CS4 a lot more than I did with CS3. One thing I love is the ability to set SWF MetaData right on the timeline. I … Continue reading →

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Last Chapter Done!

Posted on October 23, 2008 by keith

I just finished writing the 10th and last chapter of AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation! While it’s always an great feeling to type in that last sentence, hit save and exit and attach it to an email, there’s still plenty of … Continue reading →

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New SWFUpload released: Flash 10 fix. Any way to hack WP?

Posted on October 23, 2008 by keith

SWFUpload just released a new (beta) version that fixes the issues caused by new Flash 10 security changes: http://swfupload.org/forum/news/827 This is good. I’m sick of uploading files one by one on WordPress. Now, does anyone have a hack yet to … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, General | 1 Comment

Pixel Bender and Flash

Posted on October 17, 2008 by keith

I just finished writing a chapter on Pixel Bender for my next book. It’s really fun stuff. Unfortunately, its integration with Flash is quite minimal. There was some discussion of this type of thing in the comments of another post … Continue reading →

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Pixel Bender Command Line

Posted on October 15, 2008 by keith

I just finished writing a chapter on Pixel Bender for AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation. Really fun stuff. One thing that’s unignorable is the … klunkiness of the Pixel Bender Toolkit. It’s not that it’s particularly buggy or anything, just really, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 6 Comments

Flash Games

Posted on October 5, 2008 by keith

This rings true…

Posted in Flash, General | 11 Comments

Polar Distortion with Flash 10 drawTriangles

Posted on September 23, 2008 by keith

I was playing around with some of the new drawing API features for the new book and realized I could redo the Polar distortion class I did a while back. http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1167 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1187 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1194 It was amazingly easy: And it’s fast! … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 13 Comments

CS4 NOT Released!

Posted on September 23, 2008 by keith

All over the blogosphere (I hate that word, but what are you going to call it?), all I can read is about how CS4 was released today. Maybe I’m just nitpicking here, but CS4 was not released. It was announced. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 15 Comments

I like Flash CS4

Posted on September 23, 2008 by keith

[Just thought I should add a disclaimer here. I don’t work for Adobe. Nothing I say here or in the comments is official information about what will or will not be in Flash CS4. I do not have the final, … Continue reading →

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