Can Flash Be Saved

As a fellow Flasher for almost…5 years (unofficially 12 years! First met Flash during their Flash 3 era), it absolutely boiled my blood just to read the thoughts on the blog post. I might be over-reacting, but it seems the trend crowrd now tend to over-hyping HTML5 like the goddess of their time and throwing shits on Flash like everything bad is made of them.

Read the heated discussion here.

And on a sidenote, a good move by the giant, Google.

• Google will stop supporting IE6

Rejoice ladies!

Was working on a project today and stucked and wondering how you can actually place a large number of custom classes in your Library and then call it out via a name that is formed out of a string?

Example: … “mcApple”+number+date

You can actually do it by using the method known as  “Class Reference”.

var yourString:String = “mcName”+”customName”+customData;
var className:Class = getDefinitionByName(yourString) as Class;
var mc:MovieClip = new className();

this.addChild(mc);

See? Doesn’t seem to be too hard and it’s really helpful especially when you’re still very much of a semi-developer/designer and need to access the library dynamically.

References:

• Flashkit
• Get a Class Reference by Class Name

If you have no idea what is Tilt-Shift. Probably you can have a short read on it at wikipedia. But perhaps to some, when done right, can produce really unexpected and sweet result (look at UNIQLO CALENDER). While to other, it’s being done to death. Of course, this is merely a quick tidbits on how you can “almost” achieve the effect without even touching Photoshop or other image editing tool, but with just few line of Actionscript. And yes, designers can do it too!

Demo : See it in action!
Download : The Source file. (Flash CS3, AS3)

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Stop H*Commerce

At first when I went into the site, I thought it’s a movement by Symantec or equivalent, and didn’t notice the McAfee brand until later, and though that the brand died off in the early 2000. They were a bunch of great dudes back in 90’s but slowly overshadowed by Symantec’s Norton Antivirus. It’s nice to see them making a lot of positive comeback in this industry. However, aside from a damn fine professional job at the site’s transition and interface design. It’s really :

• Usable, from all the visual indications on what you can do and click next.
• Slick, no-nonsense site
• VERY informative towards mainstream audience that NEEDS to know about basics in avoiding scams, hackers and jargons that they always bumped into the internet world.

So this is a MUST visit for those that has no idea what a backdoor means, no it’s not your house’s back door. Please.

Thanks Eugene.

p.s. -<sarcasm> site’s aside, I really get f*cking fed up of receiving random spam message from my contact list that messaged me less than 1 alphabet per year, telling me how I can earn more moneys. So please, do yourself a favor and learn to get protected. </sarcasm>

Regards there,

It has been a while I’m into sharing really useful stuff with my readers. Of course it is ain’t anything big here but I thought it might be useful to some.

The first one is the mouse hiding script that might be handy when you’re dealing with games, fullscreen projects which sometimes it might be a hassle if the mouse stays in the middle. Of course any intermediate actionscripter will able to come up with a solution very fast but I would want to share this script, that you may use it freely. Just let me know if you like it.

Download :
Mouse Hide(r)

http://www.manmeng.net/fun/mm_mousehide.fla

The second one here is somewhat not that common for those that runs on PC environment. Because normally the fscommand(“fullscreen”) will work perfectly. But in the newer Macs running OSX, there is a tendency of delay that causes your fullscreen player doesn’t really go fullscreen and retains it window menu. Reason? Simple, it’s the delay from launching the external player itself. The fix? The script below or you can addon a bit of delay like, 0.5 second before calling in the fullscreen script. Enjoy!

Download :
Fullscreen Delay(er)

http://www.manmeng.net/fun/mm_fullscreen.fla