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

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

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 [...]