Portrait of the Sleep Deprived

A menu that reads the data (label, image, link) for each of its buttons from an XML file and then creates a carousel with these buttons.

[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/rotating_menu/rotating_XML_driven_menu.swf w=400 h=300]

Feel free to download the source files and modify them to your needs…
download the source files in a .rar file here: source

Fooling around with ActionScript 2.0 the other day. Its the same code, but with only a few tweaks to the “constants” you can get a totally different effect. The base idea was this spire:

[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/misc_flash/spire.swf w=400 h=300]

but then i changed a few variables and got these interesting variations:

[Warning: these things contain a lot of "onEnterFrame"s so things might get sticky on a slow computer] continue reading…

A second pack of vector art made in Flash. Check out the thumbs below and remember you can use right-click to zoom in and out for detail:

[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/snowman.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/book.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/key.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/bucket.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/wrench.swf w=100 h=100]

Feel free to use the vector art in this pack any way you see fit.

Check out the source files too if you want to see how this stuff is made: here

When i started uploading source files of small flash projects i thought i should also post some pure vector art for flash. For those of you who don’t like actionscript that much here is a first pack of vector items made in flash 8.0

Thumbs (remember you can zoom in-out using the right-click menu):
[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/Baro.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/factory.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/file_search.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/floppy.swf w=100 h=100][flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/vectorPacks/pencil.swf w=100 h=100]

You can get the files here, in a .rar file that also contains the fla’s

An extension of the Timer application. This one though is not so simple. It counts down from the specified amount of seconds. It can pause and resume and it also plays a sound on every tic. Even though the code is a bit old, it is still a good example of modular programming (if i remember correctly)

[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/misc_flash/countdown.swf w=300 h=300]

and here is the source file if you want to mess with it or try to understand some messy code

A simple timer. Not sure where you would want to use that…

[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/misc_flash/timer.swf w=300 h=300]

here is the source code

This is an image slide show made completely in ActionScript 2.0. It reads the data from an XML and then loads the images. Pretty straightforward. No pre-loading etc implemented, even though i would like to extend it when i get some more free time

[flash http://blog.locus-delicti.com/wp-content/uploads/image-scroller/show.swf w=200 h=200]

You can also download the “.fla” with the source code here