Just heard one of these installments on NPR this morning. It was pretty interesting to me, and I can think of a lot of Flashers out there who blur the line between art and science, so I thought I’d share:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111499
Read more...Not mine, but pretty similar to some of what I took.
https://www.norbertgilles.com/me/party/
This was the DanceElements party on Thursday night. One crazy night!
On a side note, I just replaced my camera with a Canon Powershot A95. A nice device to ease the pain!
Read more...Well, I think it’s kind of silly, but it looks like we’ve entered the age of Flash Festival Wars.
Flash Forward 2005 is scheduled for April 6-8 in San Fransisco. Flash in the Can is on for April 8-10, making it virtually impossible to attend both. I guess for many people, there is a choice to make when even when conferences are within a month or two of each other. I would love to attend them all, but having a wife and a kid and a job, two or three a year is probably going to be my limit. Still, a lot of people would attend both as long as they had time to go home, open their mail, wash their clothes and pat the dog on the head before heading out to the next one. Intentionally overlapping them is playing real hardball.
Read more...Got back late last night from Media Elements in Enschede, NL. A fantastic time. Really had a great time meeting up with old friends and meeting many new ones. Excellent hospitality and everything seemed very well received by the local students and business people. I look forward to going again next year.
Unfortunately, somewhere between Schipol and Boston, my camera fell out of my bag, along with 200+ photos. I put in a lost and found request, but I have a feeling someone is enjoying their new Canon Powershot A60 camera. 🙁
Read more...This was unexpected…
https://www.actionscripthero.com/blog/archives/000365.php
but welcome!
Read more...I’ll be speaking (4 times) at Media Elements next week.
Looks like a good bunch of speakers. Wondering who else would be attending. I’ll be there Wednesday morning through Sunday morning, so plenty of time to get together and hang out.
Read more...My company is overloaded as is, and possibly about to get in a couple of very large Flash projects. Please only apply if you are in Boston or will move to the Boston area. We need full-time, on-site people. Contact Ryan Sarver (address below).
Boston Flash Jobs (multiple positions)
Xplana Learning is currently looking to fill 2 positions.
Advanced Actionscript Developer
We are looking for experienced Actionscript Programmers. Candidates should have a strong OO background with experience in developing custom components and leveraing emerging actionscript features.
Requirements
– 3 ? 5 years experience in designing and developing interactive user interfaces
– Strong development skills in an object oriented development language, specifically Actionscript 2.0
– Experience in developing and building GUI applications
– Expertise in building UIs in Flash, ActionScript
– Experience in building sophisticated external data driven applications
– Knowledge of and experience with XML and related technologies
– Understanding of UI design principles, interaction design guidelines and usability methodologies
– Must work well in a cooperative, consensus based environment
– Strong verbal and written communication skills
– Be willing to provide samples of previous work
Just goes to show you you can teach an old dog new tricks. (Yes, old. I turned 40 the other day.) Here’s something I never knew you could do: load a plain text file in to Flash.
There are a number of types of files you can load into Flash – swfs, jpgs, xml, stylesheets, and LoadVars, to name a bunch. I never knew of a way of simply loading a plain text file though. LoadVars is the closest, but after loading, it is broken down into name/value pairs. My solution in the past was to preface the text file with a variable name and pull the text out of the variable: “info=blah blah blah”, then grab myLoadVars.info.
Read more...Here’s a handy command I created a while ago, but recently upgraded. It takes all the elements on stage in the current frame and lays them out neatly in a grid according to their size.
Why would you ever want to do such a thing? Two situations:
A. You are making a component. You have an assets frame with all your attachable symbols in it.
B. You are making an application where, in order to have a preloader, you do not export your assets first frame, and therefore need to include the assets in a frame somewhere to force them to be exported.
… or, “The Case of the Disappearing Assets”
Say you are developing a set of components, and some of these components are contained within some others. For example, you have a Button component which contains a Label component. Or a ComboBox component which contains a List component.
You probably have an assets layer in the containing component (i.e. Button), which contains an instance of the sub component (Label).
I noticed that occasionally these assets were disappearing from the assets layer. Everything was working fine, and then suddently I couldn’t get the button to display a label. Or the combo box no longer would show its drop down list. Somehow that asset had been deleted. But I swear I didn’t do it!
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