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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hi Everyone,
I am doing research on which video player I can easily embed inside of an AS3 application. I had these players in mind: DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Youtube, GoogleVideo, and the DivShare player as a fallback. Right of the bat, the following players are still in AS2:
YouTube
DailyMotion
DivShare
GoogleVideo
While these are in AS3:
Vimeo
Veoh
Flickr
Hi Everyone,
I was toying around today to get a youtube video to play the "legal" way. Quite honestly using the little KeepVid client I made and FLVPlayer, it works fantastic.. but yeah, it isn't legal.
So after a few hours, I found a wrapper that works.. You can see it in action here.
Hi Everyone,
Looking back at the last 4-5 years I spent developing Flash widgets & applications (again, I do NOT participate in marketing efforts.. so no micro-sites or bogus games for me) I realize that one of the core abilities of a good Flash application developer is his ability to develop components from scratch. The better [...]