Normally when I'm working I tend to use XML a lot. Also, my file structuring goes something like this:
deploy
swf
images
xml
scripts
etc.
This is generally how I structure my deploy folder and inside of the root deploy folder I have my .html (or whatever) files. This poses a bit of a problem when I'm loading stuff into [...]
I don't know how late on this I am and I have to admit I don't use filters in Flash THAT often, but I was trying to add a glow to a movie clip in a class using Fuse and I had a hell of a time finding out how to do it. I [...]
I posted a while ago about using modulo and I've recently used it on a couple of things. What I like about it is that it resets the value of a counter if you're using one, like so:
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Actionscript:
var bg:Number = 0;
var total:Number = 5;
function addNum():Void
{
trace(bg);
bg++;
bg %= total;
}
for [...]
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Recently I've used FlashVars on a big project I've been working on at one of my contracts. I found this to be a very useful and effective method of passing in variables to Flash through HTML. Basically what it allows you to do is pass in variables to the root level of [...]
I've been using Illustrator for some time now and I've got a few really handy tips and tricks that I've learned along the way from other designers or found by myself that, if I had known about them before, would have saved me tons of time and headaches. I'll update this post when I [...]
Someone asked on the Kirupa forums about building a mute button that will control every sound that is embedded on the timeline. I remember doing something like this a while back but I couldn't remember the exact code, so I found it again (the same way I found it before, Google, duh!). Anyway, [...]
I was making my news RSS 2.0 compliant for the new reintroducing.com and fell into a hole when I had to convert the date to a readable format in Flash for my news script. The date is in UTC format (Sun, 28 Jun 2005 12:16:00 GMT) which is not what I wanted to use [...]