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 (!!)

33 Marker Pen & Pencil Textured Scratch Brushes

33 Marker Pen & Pencil Textured Scratch Brushes

Posted by Michele in Design on 23. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

One of our latest creations. 33 different brushes – defined as a Photoshop set of brushes (ABR), a layered psd and a set of transparent pngs included, plus short help file. Brushes range in size from well over 2000 pixels to over 600 and are created at 600 dpi. Each brush is a useful for [...]

Landscapes – free photos for download

Posted by Michele in Freebies on 24. Oct, 2009 | 0 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, [...]

Brochure Open Engine

Brochure Open Engine

Posted by Michele in Code, Flash on 01. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments

This is one of the earlier items we uploaded to Flashden, but it has proved to be reasonabily popular, so I thought I would highlight it. It is a pretty nifty little flash movie, that is kinda like the evil flash flipping book. I hate flipping books, although it does work in places, for example [...]

Useful CSS, Jquery & HTML references

Posted by Michele in Code on 29. Sep, 2009 | 0 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 [...]

Thornyrabbit on the Envato Market Places

Thornyrabbit on the Envato Market Places

Posted by Michele in Design, Flash on 24. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off

We recently decided to explore the Envato market places and we have been creating some stock flash and graphics for it. We have not created very much yet, but we are hoping to grow our portfolios there. View what we have on: Flashden GraphicRiver

Preventing Text Field Blocking MouseClicks

Posted by Michele in ActionScript 3 Snippets on 16. Apr, 2009 | 0 Comments

A solution for text fields stopping mouse clicks.

Adobe TextArea component – adding and controlling.

Posted by Michele in ActionScript 3 Snippets on 16. Apr, 2009 | 0 Comments

Adding the Adobe TextArea component and setting properties for padding, carat, loading html and setting start scroll point.