I posted a link to Matrix Ping Pong a while ago, but that link is dead, so I’m posting this one which will hopefully survive a bit longer. The matrix pinngpong seems to be one of the most popular search terms within the blog so I thought I should update.
I recently started work at a web development copany, and we’ve just released our Christmas eCard, Save Our Snowmen! It’s been pretty popular. It’s a game and it’s been great fun working on our own stuff rather than having to stick to client requirements. Have a go, and if you have any comments, feel free to let me know here.
Finally, a Flash post.
Am I the first to blog it?? The Flash Remoting components for Flash MX 2004 have been released, and I haven’t read about it elsewhere, so . . . I think I win!
you can download them here
This was supposed to be a flash blog, honest. Anyway, Macromedia have released Studio MX 2004. It has new versions of Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Freehand (an update rather than a full version) and Flash. Flash has split into two versions – Professional and standard. Professional is basically standard with bells on – more abilities, more components etc. You can download Demo cversions and try it out. The new interface is nice, with tabbed windows and lots of little refinements to help you enjoy the software.
Sometimes the default colouring of Flash MX components can be a bit ugly. But Unless I want to skin them all myself physically, or work out complex colour groups (which always look hideous) I just have to leave them alone. That was until I found the FStyleFormat extension” href=”http://www.illogicz.com/blog/000042.php#comments”>illogicz.com > FStyleFormat extension. It rules all. The instructions are on the page, but you basically give it a base colour and it will skin all of the components acording to that single colour. It’s superb!
I’ve recently been working on a dynamic scrollbar. one that loads a series of images and can scrol them up and down. The problem I was having was that the “button” movieclips were nested in a “scroller” movieclip, but only the scroller clip would capture mouse actions. I couldn’t assign mouse actions to the individual buttons which was causing me problems. I kind of got a cludge around it by dragging a created movieclip and doing eval(dragged._droptarget) it works pretty well and here’s the code for that section:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("drag", this.getNextDepth());
this.drag.startDrag(true);
//make slider
this.createEmptyMovieClip("sliderStrip_mc", this.getNextDepth());
var limit = this.imageArray.length;
for (var count = 0; count
I was asked about another effect in Flash, and this was what I came up with:
button_params = new Array();
button_params[1] = {offtext:"Menu Point One", touchText:"go."};
button_params[2] = {offtext:"Menu Point Two", touchText:"go."};
button_params[3] = {offtext:"Menu Point Three", touchText:"go."};
button_params[4] = {offtext:"Menu Point Four", touchText:"go."};
var max = button_params.length-1;
Movieclip.prototype.rollOut = function(){
this._parent["field"+this.id].text = ""
this.targetText = this._parent.button_params[this.id].offText
this.counter = 0;
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if (this.counter+1
I enjoy visiting experiment sites. like Natzke.com. I saw this one linked to today by Zeldman. It’s very cool, so check out t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m.
I’ve been really bad about posting, so I’m going to try to be better organised and post more flash stuff. Someone at work was working on an interface like this:
I’m not sure what the point was, but I put this together as a sample. I particularly like the fact that the movement eases in and out. If you’re interested, you can download the FLA file.