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Child listen for parent click event in Flash AS3 – summed up.

Posted by Michele in Flash on 19. Mar, 2010 | Comments Off

In the child script: (An error will occur if the child has not been fully added to stage – so make sure you have the following) addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, setListener); added in the initialiser, that then will check for parent events, eg. private function setListener(event:Event):void{ this.parent.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, listenForClick); } In the parent script: Retrieve the value via, eg: [...]

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Parksville Dog Park

Posted by Michele in Uncategorized on 03. Mar, 2010 | Comments Off

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Parksville Dog Park.

Flash FullScreen Video

Posted by Michele in Flash on 03. Mar, 2010 | Comments Off

Always forget this – if you want to have fullscreen Flash video toggle (normally a button in the player skin) – when you publish you need to make 2 changes to the HTML options: 1. Set “Template” to Flash Only – FullScreen 2. Set Scale to “No scale” – this will allow the scaling (!!)

Water with Bubbles Free Background Image

Posted by thornyeternity in Freebies on 15. Dec, 2009 | Comments Off

Looping an FLV video

Posted by thornyeternity in ActionScript 3 Snippets, Code, Flash on 07. Dec, 2009 | Comments Off

FLV Playback component is named “myvideo” myvideo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doLoop); function doLoop(event:Event):void{ myvideo.autoRewind=true; myvideo.play(); }

Broken Glass Seamless Tile – free download

Posted by thornyeternity in Freebies on 24. Nov, 2009 | Comments Off

1118 x 746 pixel abstract image made from broken glass to use as a seamless tiling background image, texture overlay or such.

Landscapes – free photos for download

Posted by Michele in Freebies on 24. Oct, 2009 | No Comments

We have found that a lot of the time you work on a design for a client and you need a photograph of a certain area, like a city or town. Here are some photos of landscapes and cityscapes that are available for download. You can use these in anything you like – web design, [...]

Useful CSS, Jquery & HTML references

Posted by Michele in Code on 29. Sep, 2009 | No Comments

I am always finding tutorials or references, but by the time I want to use them I can’t ever seem to find them.  I am starting this page so I can keep track of them, hopefully this way I will manage to find them again when I need them. Smashing Magazine 50 useful new jquery [...]

Preventing Text Field Blocking MouseClicks

Posted by Michele in ActionScript 3 Snippets on 16. Apr, 2009 | No Comments

A solution for text fields stopping mouse clicks.

Easy re-usable function to creat customisable text fields on the fly.

Posted by thornyeternity in ActionScript 3 Snippets on 16. Apr, 2009 | No Comments

Re-usable function allowing one to quickly create text fields dynamically as needed. Saves time.