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Archive for May, 2009
AS3 Basics 7 – Loading XML
30 May 2009In today’s AS3 basics lesson, I’m focusing on XML. I’ll show you how to access an XML feed and parse out the data for use in your flash apps. For this example, I’m going to use the brilliant last.fm api – and display the last 10 songs I listened to. For this, I’ll be using [...]
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- Tags: Actionscript, basics, coding, Flash, source
CIA World Fact Book Data Visualisation tool.
23 May 2009Hello again! Today I’m posting an AS3 experiment I made when I was playing around with parsing data, and making info-graphics. I was inspired to try some data visualisation and info-graphics when I started reading the brilliant blog – Flowing Data. FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves [...]
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- Tags: as3, Experiment, Flash
Eraser Text Effect
16 May 2009A few weeks ago, I watched the Schwarzenegger classic – Eraser. It’s not one of the best Arnie films, but I liked a text effect they used on the opening credits. The cast’s names were written in, then blurred vertically, as they were split into two copies, and panned left and right. So I went [...]
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- Tags: as3, Experiment, Flash
AS3 – Amazing Map Function.
9 May 2009One of the things that makes the Flash community so strong, is the willingness of coders to share their work. I learned actionscript from people sharing code, and that’s what’s inspired me to start sharing some of the things I’ve been working on too. So I thought a good starting point would be to draw [...]
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- Tags: Actionscript, Flash, source
AS3 Basics 6 – Links!
6 May 2009Hello again. It’s time for another AS3 basics write up – today I’m doing Links. Whilst the AS3 code is slightly longer than AS2′s getURL(); it’s still not bad. ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPT3//Define the location of the link var url:String = "http://www.lawriecape.co.uk"; //Create a new URL request – var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); //You can then [...]
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- Lawrie: Hi Dinaz, I'm not sure what's happening on your system I'm afraid. When you run the FlashMidiServer [...]
- Dinaz Kardooni: Hi, I am having trouble with the Flash Midi Server. I downloaded it and it says it is connected, but [...]
- It’s Movember again! - The Lawrie Cape Blog: [...] was a great project to work on and I wrote a blog post about it here. We had a nice surprise t [...]
- Lawrie: Glad you got it working :) [...]
- Anonymous: Yeah, had to do this first: var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(this.parent); trace(map(mc.mouseY, 0, s [...]