Official Design and Development Resource of ThornyRabbit » Code http://blog.thornyrabbit.com because we love Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:55:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Looping an FLV video http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/2009/12/looping-an-flv-video/ http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/2009/12/looping-an-flv-video/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:31:28 +0000 thornyeternity http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/2009/12/looping-an-flv-video/ FLV Playback component is named “myvideo”

myvideo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doLoop);
function doLoop(event:Event):void{
myvideo.autoRewind=true;
myvideo.play();
}

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What I like about this is that you can have more of a brochure instead of a magazine / book as a lot of the time one tends to create brochures more and also it is a bit more unique. Andrew coded this in ActionScript 3 and since he knows far more than I do about the subject I will not go into the technical aspects of it.

bunnies

In summary this is what it does:

Brochure Open Engine uses 6 images in the library to create an interactive animated brochure opening, flipping over, and closing.The images can be easily replaced (provided the symbols are kept centered). File size is dependent on the size of the images used. All symbols are editable in the Library. Size is fixed based on the required area to display the full brochure, user can adjust as needed.

If you like the sounds of it have a look on Flashden, and even better you can always buy it!

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Smashing Magazine

CSS

Design Related

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To use the menu alias as the class name

<?php
$menu = &JSite::getMenu();
$active = $menu->getActive();
?>
<body id="<?php print $active->alias; ?>">

Use the menu page class suffix

<?php
$menu =& JSite::getMenu();
$active = $menu->getActive();
$params = $menu->getParams( $active->id );
$class = $params->get( 'pageclass_sfx' );
?>
<body<?php if ($class) echo ' class="' . $class . '"'; ?>>

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]]> http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/2009/03/insert-body-class-name-in-joomla/feed/ 0 The ThornyRabbit library http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/2009/01/hello-world/ http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/2009/01/hello-world/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:15:34 +0000 Michele http://blog.thornyrabbit.com/?p=1 This will be the design and development resource for Andrew and Michele Macklin. We have over the last 2 years both tried blogging a bit and it kinda worked and also not. After some discussion one early morning on the ferry over to Vancouver we decided we did not want a blog so much as a place where we can store our ‘stuff’ and if this means that other designers and developers can also make use of it, well then even more reason to do so.

The main reason for this really is that we both keep losing our ‘stuff’ – Photoshop brushes, CSS, HTML and Action script code snippets etc. At the moment we are still sorting through everything so it might take a bit of a while to get this going.

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