Tutorial - Creating a reusable Slider Control / Component

Hi Everyone,
Today I will cover the subject of creating a reusable slider control which takes two bitmaps as resources. The thumb bitmap will slide on the rail bitmap. It is a very simple concept!
We will basically take this image: and this one: and make this (try it, move that knob):

In fact, [...]

Tutorial - Multi Touch in AS3 / Flash Player 10.1 - Part 2. TouchEvent & MouseEvent Sequences

Hi Everyone,
In this installment I will cover the TouchEvent and how it is intertwined with MouseEvent. First you need to understand that touches will fire MouseEvent’s too. You will get a TouchEvent first, then a MouseEvent. This can prove annoying in some cases, and good in others.
For the complete listing of TouchEvent’s as [...]

Tutorial - Multi Touch in AS3 / Flash Player 10.1 - Part 1. Setting Up

Hi Everyone,
I had the pleasure, although it was a strenuous experience, to work on Adobe Post. It is still a private project; undertaken by 80/20 Studio in NYC on behalf of Adobe. It was demonstrated (shortly) by Kevin Lynch at the Adobe MAX conference on Oct 14th, 2009. It implements one of the nicest new [...]

TubeGripClient - Play Any Movie on YouTube in AS3 with your own player!

Hi Everyone,
as some of you might have noticed, KeepVid went downhill. I don't know exactly when, however I found an alternative: http://www.tubegrip.com. It works pretty well...
Here is a sample use of this library:
PLAIN TEXT
Actionscript:

public function startTest():void

{

    _client = TubeGripClient.getInstance();

 

    // this takes a url from YouTube they call Watch Urls.. basically, the url [...]

Tutorial - Consuming REST web services in ActionScript 3 - Part 4

Hi Everyone,
this is a follow-up to the following posts:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

In this post, I will add code to identify each request uniquely, give you a class called "AbstractClient" that will handle most of the mechanics and is easily extended. The idea is to give you a base on which to build. Essentially, for [...]

Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 4 - Sample Usage

Hi Everyone..
This is the fourth (and most probably the last) installment of this series on playing FLV (and H.264 MP4) video in Flash from scratch.
Full source code for the library is here.
The related posts are:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

For many of you, this might be the only post you are interested in. It will [...]

Tutorial - Playing Video with SubTitles in AS3 - Part 1

Hi Everyone,
The series on Playing FLV files in AS3 was probably the most popular post on this blog. So I thought I would take it one step further: show SubTitles from an .SRT file over the FLV while it is playing.
First, you need to read this post by Jankees van Woezik. He did a great [...]

SWF TextField Factory — Dynamically Loading Fonts in AS3 using Flex SDK 3.4

Hi Everyone,
it has been a long while since I wrote! Been busy. Now I have some time and the first thing I did is to get away from the Flash IDE completely. I had been waiting to be able to debug directly in FlashDevelop for a while, tried some extension that didn't work, then [...]

tutorials.as3.ca is online!

Hi everyone,
although right now it doesn't look like much, I spent the last day compiling the best AS3 tutorials I could find on the internet. I have good ideas for this site, and I hope I will get the time to make it a reality. For now it will just serve to boost the indexing [...]

Should we start learning Javascript once again?

Hi Everyone,
with HTML 5 being adopted by more and more browsers out there, with DailyMotion releasing an HTML5 version of the movie profile page, and YouTube doing the same; there comes a question: should I get back to learning Javascript?
The posts on the subject abound all over the internet:
HTML 5 versus Flash / Flex

Digital [...]