Tag Archives: as2

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.
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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Integrate Google Analytics with Flash | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 28 January 2008
The results are in and the requested topic is “Integrate Google Analytics into Flash.” The poll has been reset and is ready to recieve your post requests, so keep voting! It’s located in the side bar! Overview: Tracking your visitors and attempting to better understand them is a large part of even having content on the web. [...]
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Customize the Right-click menu in Flash | ContextMenuItem Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 21 January 2008
Overview: Flash give publishers the opportunity to customize the right-click menu which pops up in the swf file with a context menu item in actionscript. ContextMenuItem 1ContextMenuItem(caption:String, callbackFunction:Function, [separatorBefore:Boolean], [enabled:Boolean], [visible:Boolean]) Creates a new ContextMenuItem object that can be added to the 1ContextMenu.customItems array. Steps: The menu item has a caption, which is displayed to the user in the right click menu. It [...]
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Squambido from StomperNet

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 January 2008
The new video player from StomperNet! Feature Set: This Video Player is built in Adobe flash. I was involved in the actionscripting and design of the player and implementing many of the functions. There is a playlist imported into the player and even an html ’sales pages’ loaded into the player. The progress bar shows download [...]
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Get current url to Flash swf using an External Interface call

By Evan Mullins | Published: 2 January 2008
Overview: Many have struggled with the task of getting you swf to read or get the current url showing in the browser, the html page the browser is at which has the swf embedded. Not to be confused with the _root._url which returns the path of the swf file. This would be helpful to know if [...]
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Free IQ Player updated!

By Evan Mullins | Published: 24 October 2007
The video player at Free IQ now supports Google Analytics and remembers your history! We’ve just released a few new features for the flash player. For the user, we’ve added a “high water” mark showing furthest point in the video you’ve watched. For the web-site owner who embeds a FreeIQ video player on [...]
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Free IQ Player Released!

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 October 2007
Introducing our new Free IQ player! It’s got lots of new bells and whistles, and is the first player on the internet to directly incorporate e-commerce. Let us take you through the tour of: Our new “scrub bar” Volume controls The playlist Full screen mode Author information IQpons The term “scrub bar” refers to widgetry for moving back and forth in the video. [...]
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