Posts Tagged “flash”

flCodr – beta

by leon on April 20, 2008

Quick update!! After about a week of hard work the beta version of flCodr is now online. The basic idea is to have a repository of Flash code snippets online in a centralised location. The unique idea hear however is (…)

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Locator Panel update

by leon on April 7, 2008

The Locator Panel has now been updated to v1.2. The update improves the functionality of the Map, in terms of being controlled by the keyboard and mouse. It also improves feedback when a connection is lost or cannot be found. (…)

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Silverlight? hmm

by leon on January 15, 2008

It seems like all I seem to do on this blog is slag of anything related to Microsoft – and i’m about to do it again. In fairness I have included a really big image (above) to make up for (…)

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Flash Components

by leon on January 6, 2008

I’ve recently signed up to FlashComponents.net . I rarely download or install pre-configured components for Flash partly due to the excessive costs of some components and also as I like the flexibility of creating my own. However I recently stumbled (…)

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Actionscript 3.0 Motion Detection

by leon on January 1, 2008

After a few requests i’ve got around to finding out the source code for my previous post on motion detection using actionscript 3.0. AS3 is still quite new to me and this post was adapted from an original tutorial in (…)

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Air desktop RSS reader

by leon on December 20, 2007

I have recently updated my Flash based desktop RSS reader to an Air application. Air is Adobe’s answer to a cross browser runtime that allows developers to further blur the divide between web and desktop. For this example the user (…)

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Flash based matching pairs template

by leon on December 19, 2007

I have recently created a template for creating a Flash based matching pairs game. This can be used in eLearning environments to create a quiz quickly and easily, where the user is given a question and presented with a bank (…)

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Flash desktop RSS widget v1

by leon on December 10, 2007

Ok, so widgets (gadgets for you Windows boys) aren’t exactly groudbreaking anymore, but this still has its uses. It’s a Flash based script that allows you to parse and display any RSS feed. In this example I am using it (…)

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Flash 9 Motion Detection – Minority Report Style (source code)

by leon on October 11, 2007

I have finally managed to get together the source files for the Motion Detection script. The script allows you to control an interface simply by waving your hands in the air infront of a camera. This is pretty cool if (…)

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SWF/Flash Embed code via JavaScript (with alternative content option)

by leon on October 10, 2007

Bit of a big title there, needed to summarise exactly everything that this script does. Here is a more detailed run down: Embeds Flash into a html page using JavaScript – this gets around the fact that you have to (…)

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