ActionScript Scraps

This was another complete build. The site is video based and works quite well I think. link

This was another pre-existing site that I made significant changes to over the last 18 months. The changes include new sections (gallery and a quiz section) and updates to various other parts of the site. link

This was a complete build that uses the Flickr API to load and display images from keywords entered by the user. There was a significant online advertising campaign that drove traffic to this site including a Yahoo homepage takeover using multiple SWF files, video and the LocalConnection object. link

This was another pre-existing site that I’ve had to make many changes to. link

This was a pre-existing site that I made some amends to. I added deep-linking, amended the functionality and also fixed a few other small bugs.

This is the first in a series of posts showing sites built and/or worked on. shell.com On this project I used the casaframework to create a dynamic font loader that enables font loading of specific language and character sets for individual fonts. This is driven by a config XML file.

I just discovered you can run methods directly on Strings. Not particularly exciting but interesting nonetheless. Try this one: trace(‘upper case’.toUpperCase()); It will trace out this: UPPER CASE I’m yet to discover a scenario where this would be useful but it is fun to know all the same!

Flash and Fonts. Who wold have thought it could get so bad? I remembered to put some text in the textfield on the stage. I remembered to embed all the characters I needed. I remembered to set embed fonts to true. I remembered to test that the characters I wanted were displaying in the field [...]

Here is the game I had that rotation problem with. Use the mouse to control the steering. Post your best times in the comments! ;

I was building a nice little car racing game last week and got stuck on a problem to do with rotation. Getting the car to follow the cursor wasn’t a problem but as I put a restriction on the amount the car could turn, I couldn’t just make the angles equal each other. This meant [...]