Tag Archives: as2

Interactive Spin Actionscript Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 14 March 2008
I have been thinking of different interactions that are possible with objects. If you’ve read this blog at all you’ll know that I’ve played with physics and gravity and throwing balls and bouncing balls and all sorts. But I hadn’t wrapped my head around an interactive spinner. I know it’d be easy to make a [...]
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Local Connection Actionscript – Communicate between seperate Flash files | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 12 March 2008
Overview: Local Connection Communication between two separate flash files placed on the same page (or even running simultaneously on one machine) is a nice way to spread a project out. You can send variable, call functions, pretty much do anything in one swf from another. Easiest case use would be a navigation menu set up in one [...]
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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
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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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