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

Michele — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:40:03 +0000

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:

private function listenForClick(event:Event):void{
trace(“parent said click” + event.target.videoName);
//but to check right object is sending the event and not any click, use:
if(event.target.name == “menuItem_mc”){
videoURL = event.target.videoName;
doConnection();
}
}//listenForClick

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Parksville Dog Park

Michele — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:05:29 +0000

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Parksville Dog Park.

Flash FullScreen Video

Michele — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:44:47 +0000

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

thornyeternity — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:12:05 +0000

1600 x 1600 Gossamer – Streaming Bubble Background, free delicate and ethereal abstract watery image for site backgrounds, texture overlays and so on.

free watery background image

Looping an FLV video

thornyeternity — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:31:28 +0000

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

thornyeternity — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:06:22 +0000

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

33 Marker Pen & Pencil Textured Scratch Brushes

Michele — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:01 +0000

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 borders, texture overlays or patterns as a single brush, or using brush presets can scatter to create cool effects like stitching, grass or whatever. Scanned from pencil and marker pen doodles, they retain a texture reflecting the original media, making for a hand painted result that is organic and natural.

Available for purchase on Graphic River

Landscapes – free photos for download

Michele — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:26:12 +0000

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, print etc. All the photos are taken with a DSLR, but have not been retouched, so you might have to do a bit of work on them.

Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa (file:3456 x 2304)

Scaburough, Cape Town, South Africa (file:3456 x 2304)

Taken from the CN Tower, Toronto, Canada (file:2304 x 3456 )

Scaburough, Cape Town, South Africa (file:2304 x 3456 )

Brochure Open Engine

Michele — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:08:07 +0000

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 on the www.Blurb.com site.

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.

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!

Useful CSS, Jquery & HTML references

Michele — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:33:37 +0000

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

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