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Archive for April, 2009
AS3 Basics 1 – Buttons!
22 Apr 2009Reading around blogs and message boards, I’ve noticed quite a lot of people are still using Actionscript 2, especially on gaming sites. It took me quite a while to get up to speed with AS3, but I can’t recommend it enough. Having had to go back and work on some old AS2 projects recently has [...]
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- Tags: Actionscript, as3, basics, coding, Flash, source
Flash on TV?
In: General
20 Apr 2009I’ve just read an interesting post on BBC news – Adobe has just signed a deal with a number of TV and set-top-box manufacturers, to include the Flash player in their products. The story mentions it could be used for maps, interactive news tickers, sport scores, quizzes and the weather. And I’m sure that Flash [...]
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- Tags: News, Tech
25 lines source code
20 Apr 2009In the last post, I put up my entry to one of the 25 lines of actionscript competitions. In case you missed it, here it is again. [kml_flashembed fversion="8.0.0" movie="flash-content/25lines/25lines.swf" targetclass="flashmovie" publishmethod="static" width="400" height="400"] [/kml_flashembed] And here is the AS3 that makes it – for a stage size of 400 x 400, and a frame [...]
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- Tags: 25 lines, Actionscript, coding, Flash, source
In just 25 lines of Actionscript 3…
In: Actionscript|Flash
17 Apr 2009Right, I’m new to this, so go easy with me. The idea of this blog, is to share some of the code I write and ideas I have. So much of my learning process with Flash has been through blogs and messageboards, I thought I’d best give something back. I’m still getting to grip with [...]
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- Tags: 25 lines, Actionscript, Flash
Inaugural Post!
In: General
9 Apr 2009Hello! Welcome to my lovely new blog, powered by the wonderful WordPress. Fingers crossed I get round to actually writing some content. See you soon. Lawrie
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- Tags: Admin
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- Lawrie: Hi Alex, There's some brief instructions on this page - http://www.lawriecape.co.uk/theblog/index [...]
- Alex: Hi Lawrie, I installed the server and application but I'm having difficulties connecting it to FL [...]
- Lawrie: Thanks Adam! Your comment was so complementary, I thought it was spam at first. Glad you're finding [...]
- Adam: Hey Lawrie! This blog is my new favourite read, I'm a graduating Design student in Leicester! Yo [...]
- Lawrie: Hi Brendan, I like the look of your installation piece. Good work! It's been a while since I worke [...]