Tag Archives: actionscript

Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as2)

By Evan Mullins | Published: 7 March 2008
looking for this in as3!? look no more Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as3) Overview Recently I had a requirement that I had to detect which version of the flash player was currently installed. This is a normal thing, we do it all the time when embedding flash into html, we detect which [...]
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Free IQ Player Updated!

By Evan Mullins | Published: 3 March 2008
Here’s a post from the Free IQ Team! We’ve been busy at Free IQ and just released our new video player! Check it out by watching Brad Fallon on the vision of Free IQ. Or see circlecube at Free IQ!
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Men Circles | Interactive Experiment

By Evan Mullins | Published: 20 February 2008
Here’s a graphic of a circle of men. You may recognize the outline from any public restroom. They’re standing in a corny circle holding hands, like an all over the world theme., let’s just hope they all washed their hands… I made the graphic a while ago, and have been wanting to interactive-ize it. I’ve really [...]
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Dynamic Flash Vertical Scrolling Link List with XML download at Flashden

By Evan Mullins | Published: 19 February 2008
Go get the source files at
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Distance Formula in Actionscript Tutorial | Pythagorean theorem

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 February 2008
Overview To find the distance of any two points on an axis is easy, just subtract them. But what about when you have to find the distance of something not on the axis (a diagonal)? Find the distance between any two points with the Pythagorean theorem. This is an old problem we can look to history [...]
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CSS and HTML WYSIWYG in Flash | Open Source Example

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 February 2008
Overview: Using what I learned with the Actionscript Javascript Communication Tutorial, and pushing it a little further I’ve set up this example of how flash renders html and css. This is basically a wysiwyg (What you see is what you get) html editor! Natively flash only handles some html and css. Many people have enhanced [...]
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City Skyline Test | Depth Study

By Evan Mullins | Published: 6 February 2008
Gives feel of perspective and depth by reacting to mouse movements. The effect is parallax, read more… The city images are very choppy and ugly, I know, it’s just a test. [kml_flashembed publishmethod="dynamic" fversion="9.0.0" movie="http://blog.circlecube.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/city.swf" width="550" height="350" targetclass="flashmovie"]
Sample Actionscript. This in on one of the buildings which are separate movie clips. Adjust the equation for different effect. The [...]
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Actionscript Javascript Communication | ExternalInterface call and addCallback Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 February 2008
Overview: Using ExternalInterface.addCallback() we can expose an actionscript function and make it available to javascript. This would be helpful to have your webpage with embedded flash communicate to your flash swf file and even control it with javascript! Say we wanted to have buttons in the html page that would control an object in the flash. [...]
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