Tag Archives: actionscript

StomperNet’s Scrutinizer Update v1.0

StomperNet’s Scrutinizer has recieved some updates! New help documentation Keyboard Shortcut Functionality saving a screenshot bookmarking a page toggling the visualization toggle auto-zoom Aesthetic improvements Performance optimizations Improved auto-update. If you’re wondering what the heck StomperNet’s Scrutinizer is: What is it? The Scrutinizer is a web browser, based upon the Adobe AIR toolkit and the WebKit browser, that offers a simulation of the human visual system. [...]
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Style htmlText with CSS in your Actionscript | Flash/CSS Tutorial

Overview In flash you can have text areas that are rendered as html. You can also apply formatting styles to this html. This will show a simple example on how to apply css to html text in flash. I’ll do a simple anchor tag style to show you the ropes. We’ll style a link to be [...]
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Calling actionscript functions through HTML text | asfunction Tutorial

Add this to the list of things I should have already known! Story I’ve got an html enabled text box and was trying to devise a way that I could have a hyperlink anchor tag not link to a webpage but actually do something flash. It didn’t seem possible, and I looked through all the different html [...]
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Intro to Flashvars | Passing variables to actionscript from the html embed | Tutorial

I’ve had a couple special requests to explain flashvars and how to use it and show it in action. Overview The property “FlashVars” can be used to import root level variables to the flash movie or swf. The flashvars propery is used in codes for embedding flash in the html page. The string of variables passed in [...]
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Adobe Flash Player 10 | Astro | Beta Release

As you may have heard today Adobe released Astro, Flash Player 10 Beta! Highlight Features: Create Custom Filters and Effects (with Pixel Blender) Performance Boosts (GPU blitting and compositing) Drawing API Enhancements Vector Data Types New Highly Flexible Text Engine 3D Support and Effects Automatic Variable Bitrates for video streams Larger Bitmap Support Better File Reference (user uploading) Context Menu Enhancements UBUNTU Press Release Official Download at Adobe Labs [...]
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Going Natural 3.0 at StomperNet

Here’s a new site and series from StomperNet called Going Natural 3! It’s a bit of free videos made and released to showcase the talents and business of what StomperNet is about and what they do for their clients. They’re ‘moving the freeline’ so to speak… The first video series begins with Dan Thies talking about his [...]
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iKill Flash Game Art

iKill: Pick Fruit, Be Happy, Keep Killing I developed this game for my Digital Media Thesis. I wanted to do a project that was interactive, and enjoying flash I decided to create it in the form of a game. The project called “iKill’ is Installation Game Art, and is also available online. It explores multiple these, [...]
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Shared Object – utilizing the Flash cookie

Overview The Shared Object is like a cookie for flash. It lets flash store some data on the local machine, so between sessions it can remember things. Learn more from wikipedia. Shared Objects are used to store data on the client machine in much the same way that data is stored in a cookie created through a [...]
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