Portrait of the Sleep Deprived aka. locus blog

Kuler Patterns Flash + AIR App

- update 09/01/2009: kuler Patterns is featured as Mashup of the Day at programmableweb.com. At the same day Adobe decides to change the APIs domain without notifying it's users... Thanks
- update 07/01/2009: Added a fullscreen mode in the flash version of the app. To change color theme in fullscreen mode just press the button on the top-left. To return to the browser press "Esc". Full screen is disabled for the animations, as it will bring a lot of computers to their knees. AIR application updated to version 1.6.
- update 01/01/2009: New cool patterns and the option to create images any size and download them (great for some dizzy wallpapers)
- update 26/12/2008: Thanks to the updated FileReference Class in Flash Player 10 i added a new "save" button, that lets you save the generated pattern. Flash Player version 10 is now required.
- update 25/12/2008: new patterns have been added and the AIR installer has been updated. Also there is a new option to load recent, popular, highest rated and random themes. If you don't see the changes just clear your cache (ctrl+F5).

A long while ago (roughly when kuler.adobe.com launched and supported RSS feeds) i created a small AS2 application that took the swatches from those feeds and drew some patterns using them.

After so much time i took the time once again to build somewhat the same thing on AS3. The new application is built from scratch and you can take a look at it below.

A reason i did it in Actionscript 3 was that it's more robust. And that shows. This one refreshes much quicker than the Actionscript 2 version. Another reason is that now i can easily make an AIR application out of it. Not that it's much use, but still it's a nice little application. Good when you need some instant color inspiration.

Get the Kulair Patterns AIR application below:

or download the AIR file here. Of course it's not signed by Adobe, but don't be alarmed by the big red X's. Take my word for it