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: [...]
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 (!!)
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(); }
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 [...]
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
Html tags in Xml for Flash (AS2)
Posted by thornyeternity in Flash on 14. Apr, 2009 | 0 Comments
Formatting xml with html tags with ActionScript 2.
The ThornyRabbit library
Posted by Michele in Code, Design, Flash on 22. Jan, 2009 | 0 Comments
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 [...]


