Today I woke up to a very short but nice email. I paste the contents below: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13#webby_entry_netart … which, in short, means that we got a Webby Award for dreamgrove.org in the category of NetArt! We didn’t get the People’s Voice Award but thanks to all who voted for us! Dreamgrove was also given another [...]
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A quick tip: (after spending an hour banging my head on the wall): If you are to have PHP talk to Flash and pass binary data through a URLLoader, keep one thing in mind; The PHP file has to be saved in ANSI encoding. Saving the file in UTF-8 encoding will only give you headaches!
It’s typical, that every time i wanted to add a custom right click menu to my flash apps, i just googled for it and pasted in the usual code. It just occurred to me that these 5-10 lines of independent code don’t have to (and shouldn’t) be part of the main code of my projects. [...]
After i installed Flash CS4, the first project i wanted to import and “upgrade” from CS3 was of course our homepage, www.locus-delicti.com. But when i did it and hit Ctrl+Enter all kinds of weird stuff happened and items started flashing here and there. That was a while ago, so now that i had some free [...]
I’ve had a script in my “script tests” library for a long time now that used the noise() method of the BitmapData Class on EnterFrame to create a noisy image that somehow resembled the static when we have bad signal on TV. However it just didn’t seem complete. Flash Player 10 came with some major [...]
After searching in vain a whole day for a dateChooser/dateField/calendar component for Flash CS3/CS4 that would work with Actionscript 3 (something like the one there was for AS2) i decided to follow a different route. Since Flex Builder has exactly what i was looking for i decided to import it. The operation proved to be [...]
Working on dreamgrove.org i had to turn a string of space-separated words into a word list, an array containing these words, so that when someone searches for “red dress” i could get results using the String.search() method even when these words are not adjacent to each other (eg. “… her dress was red”). So i [...]
[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/colors.swf w=400 h=500] – 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 [...]
Well, for some time now i have been using TweenLite and especially TweenMax as my AS3 tweening engine. Jack has made an amazing job writing these classes and a real service to the Actionscript community by sharing them like this. Now, i searched google for the terms “green” “sock” (which is the name of his [...]
The first phase of the dreamgrove is now complete. Feel free to plant your dream or read others’ dreams on www.dreamgrove.org. Dreamgrove is a place accessible from two portals: a webpage and a garden. It contains an archive of dreams. At dreamgrove.org you are invited to write your dreams and plant them in a public, [...]
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