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I’ve had quite a few questions about how to make depth in flash. Earlier (like, 2 years ago) I put up an experiment file to give some interactive depth to some sketchbook sketches, see Floating Sketches. I’ve finally gotten around to translating that into as3. It’s still the same basic idea, Create layers of levels, and have each one respond to the mouse a little differently. The ‘closer’ depths will move faster while the farther away depths will be slower. A simple technique called Parallax.
- Seperate the scene into layers
- Place the layers in the correct depth
- Make closer layers react fast and farther layers slower
Example
Actionscript
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| //define number of layer.
var numLayers:uint = 15;
//number of items in a layer
var numBallsPerLayer:uint = 100;
var defaultBallSize:uint = 25;
var stageWidth3d:uint = 800;
var stageHeight3d:uint = 800;
var layers:Array = new Array();
//init
makeMatrix();
//3d created by layers and placing objects on each layer - the layer has it's own distance, simulated by movement and alpha
function makeMatrix():void {
//walk through desired number of layers
for (var layerNum:uint=0; layerNum<numLayers; layerNum++){
//make layer object to add balls to
var thisLayer:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(thisLayer);
layers.push(thisLayer);
//create desired number of balls per layer
for (var ballNum:uint=0; ballNum<numBallsPerLayer; ballNum++){
//trace("layer: "+layerNum +"; ball: "+ballNum);
var c1:Number = randomColor();
var c2:Number = randomColor();
//create ball
var thisBall:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
thisBall.graphics.beginFill(c1, .9);
thisBall.graphics.lineStyle(defaultBallSize/3, c2, .9);
thisBall.graphics.drawCircle(defaultBallSize, defaultBallSize, defaultBallSize);
thisBall.graphics.endFill();
//apply filter to ball
var myGradientGlowFilter = new GradientGlowFilter(0,
0,
[c1, c2, c1],
[0, .9, 1],
[0, 63, 255],
20,
20,
.9,
BitmapFilterQuality.HIGH,
BitmapFilterType.OUTER,
false);
var myBlurFilter = new BlurFilter((numLayers-layerNum)/numLayers*5, (numLayers-layerNum)/numLayers*5, 1);
var filtersArray:Array = new Array(myGradientGlowFilter, myBlurFilter);
thisBall.filters = filtersArray;
thisLayer.addChild(thisBall);
//coordinates
thisBall.x = Math.random() * stageWidth3d * layerNum;
thisBall.y = Math.random() * stageHeight3d * layerNum;
//size
thisBall.scaleY = thisBall.scaleX = layerNum/numLayers * (Math.random() + 1);
//ball animation
thisBall.layer = layerNum;
thisBall.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, animateBall);
}
//layer depth/alpha
thisLayer.alpha = layerNum/numLayers;
}
//listeners to animate from mouse movement
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, positionLayer);
}
var easingStrength:Number = 10;
function positionLayer(e:Event):void{
for (var layerNum:uint=0; layerNum<numLayers; layerNum++){
//move layers according to mouse poosition
var xv:Number = (stage.stageWidth-layers[layerNum].width)/stage.stageWidth;
layers[layerNum].x -= (layers[layerNum].x - xv * mouseX) / easingStrength;
var yv:Number = (stage.stageHeight-layers[layerNum].height)/stage.stageHeight;
layers[layerNum].y -= (layers[layerNum].y - yv * mouseY) / easingStrength;
}
}
function animateBall(e:Event):void{
e.target.x += (Math.random() - .5) * 2 * e.target.layer/numLayers;
e.target.y += (Math.random() - .5) * 2 * e.target.layer/numLayers;
}
function randomColor():Number{
return Math.floor(Math.random() * 16777215);
} |
Source
depth.fla
Author: Evan Mullins | Filed under: tutorial
Tags: 3D, abstract, animation, as3, collage, color, download, experiment, flash, game, interactive, open source, tutorial
Overview
Earlier I wrote a tutorial article about asfunction in as2. Now that I’ m into as3, surprise surprise asfunction has been depreciated and now to replace it is the LINK TextEvent. Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL after “event:” will be placed in the text property of the LINK event.
This differs from the asfunction method in that we must add an event listener (addEventListener) to the textField object, the event listener specifies which function will be called in the event of a link click and there is no way to send arguments along with the event (AFAIK). But it’s easy enought to use one link event function for all your link events and put in a simple switch statement to coordinate the desired results…
Steps
- Use event in the href attribute. (href=”event:eventText”)
- Listen to the textField (theTextField.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkHandler);)
- Handle the link event (function linkHandler(linkEvent:TextEvent):void {…)
Example
Actionscript
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| var myHTMLText:String = "Sample text in an html enabled text box.\n"+
"Here's a normal link to <a href='http://bloc.circlecube.com'>circlecube</a> putting the link into the href attribute like normal!\n"+
"<a href='event:clickLink'>Click this circlecube</a>, to see the text event link in action! \n"+
"And some more links that don't go anywhere, but they do call functions in actionscript. "+
"Click this to move <a href='event:moveUp'>UP</a>, click me move back "+
"<a href='event:moveDown'>DOWN</a>.\n"+
"Also, one last example <a href='event:testing'>click for a trace test</a>";
//create and initialize css
var myCSS:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
myCSS.setStyle("a:link", {color:'#0000CC',textDecoration:'none'});
myCSS.setStyle("a:hover", {color:'#0000FF',textDecoration:'underline'});
myHTML.styleSheet = myCSS;
myHTML.htmlText = myHTMLText;
myHTML.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkHandler);
function linkHandler(linkEvent:TextEvent):void {
switch (linkEvent.text) {
case "clickLink":
clickLink();
break;
case "moveUp":
moveUp();
break;
case "moveDown":
moveDown();
break;
default:
giveFeedback(linkEvent.text);
}
}
//function to be called from html text
function clickLink():void {
giveFeedback("Hyperlink clicked!");
var myURL:String = "http://blog.circlecube.com";
var myRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(myURL);
try {
navigateToURL(myRequest);
}
catch (e:Error) {
// handle error here
giveFeedback(e);
}
}
//another function to be called from html text, recieves one argument
function moveUp():void {
feedback.y -= 10;
giveFeedback("Up");
}
//a simple trick to allow passing of multiple arguments
function moveDown():void {
feedback.y += 10;
giveFeedback("Down");
}
function giveFeedback(str):void {
trace(str);
feedback.appendText(str +"\n");
feedback.scrollV = feedback.maxScrollV;
} |
Source
Download the fla here: textlinkevent_as3.fla
Author: Evan Mullins | Filed under: tutorial
Tags: actionscript, as3, css, download, flash, flex, html, interactive, open source, tutorial, web design
Clean slick preloader. Rounded bar with gradient fill and bevel and glow filter. All actionscript driven, no animations to bloat file size. Rounded corners don’t distort as width changes.
Includes loading statistics for download.
Calculates the following:
- Percent Loaded
- Loaded kilobytes
- Total kilobytes
- Average kilobytes per second download speed
- Remaining dowload time in seconds
- Gives kilobytes to 2 decimal places without dropping zero’s
To Use:
Easy to use, just paste in frame 1 of your file. (actionscript code included!)
Customize:
Customize color easily. Edit the fill color of the preloader_bar movie clip in the library.
Customize font easily. Edit the font for the text box named feedback on the text layer of the preloader mc.
Other Circlecube Items at FlashDen
Author: Evan Mullins | Filed under: portfolio
Tags: actionscript, as2, download, flash
See my previous post about how to do this with as2: Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as2)
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 version of the player is installed and if the user has an old version they are invited to upgrade…
But what about finding the flash version from within flash? An actionscript based detection method? I hadn’t ever thought about doing that…
Actionscript 3 now uses the flash system capabilities class to report all it’s “capabilities”. First we have to import it and then we have access to all the details through the Capabilities object, such as operating system, language, pixel aspect ration and flash player version. There are a ton of others and I’ve included them in the trace statements.
Steps
- import the class
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| import flash.system.Capabilities; |
- read the version from the Capabilities object
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| var flashPlayerVersion:String = Capabilities.version; |
This returns a string, 3 letter operating system, a space, and then the version number as four numbers seperated with commas. (just like eval(‘$version’); in as2)
I display the flashPlayerVersion and to split it out I split the string on the space, and then split the version number with the comma delimiter and display them all.
Example
Here’s what mine is (gif):
And here’s what yours is (swf):
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| import flash.system.Capabilities;
var flashPlayerVersion:String = Capabilities.version;
var osArray:Array = flashPlayerVersion.split(' ');
var osType:String = osArray[0]; //The operating system: WIN, MAC, LNX
var versionArray:Array = osArray[1].split(',');//The player versions. 9,0,115,0
var majorVersion:Number = parseInt(versionArray[0]);
var majorRevision:Number = parseInt(versionArray[1]);
var minorVersion:Number = parseInt(versionArray[2]);
var minorRevision:Number = parseInt(versionArray[3]);
vers.text = flashPlayerVersion;
feedback.text = "Operating System: "+osType + "\n" +
"Major Version: "+majorVersion + "\n" +
"Major Revision: "+majorRevision + "\n" +
"Minor Version: "+minorVersion + "\n" +
"Minor Revision: "+minorRevision;
trace("Operating System: "+osType);
trace("Major Version: "+majorVersion);
trace("Major Revision: "+majorRevision);
trace("Minor Version: "+minorVersion);
trace("Minor Revision: "+minorRevision);
trace("--other capabilities--");
trace("avHardwareDisable: " + Capabilities.avHardwareDisable);
trace("hasAccessibility: " + Capabilities.hasAccessibility);
trace("hasAudio: " + Capabilities.hasAudio);
trace("hasAudioEncoder: " + Capabilities.hasAudioEncoder);
trace("hasEmbeddedVideo: " + Capabilities.hasEmbeddedVideo);
trace("hasMP3: " + Capabilities.hasMP3);
trace("hasPrinting: " + Capabilities.hasPrinting);
trace("hasScreenBroadcast: " + Capabilities.hasScreenBroadcast);
trace("hasScreenPlayback: " + Capabilities.hasScreenPlayback);
trace("hasStreamingAudio: " + Capabilities.hasStreamingAudio);
trace("hasVideoEncoder: " + Capabilities.hasVideoEncoder);
trace("isDebugger: " + Capabilities.isDebugger);
trace("language: " + Capabilities.language);
trace("localFileReadDisable: " + Capabilities.localFileReadDisable);
trace("manufacturer: " + Capabilities.manufacturer);
trace("os: " + Capabilities.os);
trace("pixelAspectRatio: " + Capabilities.pixelAspectRatio);
trace("playerType: " + Capabilities.playerType);
trace("screenColor: " + Capabilities.screenColor);
trace("screenDPI: " + Capabilities.screenDPI);
trace("screenResolutionX: " + Capabilities.screenResolutionX);
trace("screenResolutionY: " + Capabilities.screenResolutionY);
trace("serverString: " + Capabilities.serverString); |
Download
Here’s the source fla file: flash version detection actionscript method (as3)
Author: Evan Mullins | Filed under: tutorial
Tags: actionscript, as3, download, experiment, flash, open source, tutorial
Overview
Integrating the clipboard of the operating system with your flash projects is sometimes essential. It’s a very simple and boils down to one basic method… System.setClipboard(). I’ve found a couple other things help the user experience though, such as selecting the text that gets copied and giving the user some sort of feedback to let them know that the text was successfully copied. Here’s a simple way to do it. Have any suggestions to make it better?
I’ve included an as2 version as well as as3. I’ve promised myself to migrate to as3, so I’m not coding anything in 2 that I don’t do in 3 also. This was to discourage me from coding in as2 and to encourage me to code as3, but also let me learn by doing it in both to see the actual differences if I was stuck doing a project in as2. I figured this could help others see the differences between the two versions of actionscript a bit easier and make their own migration as well!
Steps
- copy to OS clipboard = System.setClipboard(“Text to COPY”) of System.setClipboard(textBoxToCopy.text)
- set selection to text that is copied
- give user feedback
Examples and Source
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| textBox.textBox.text = "Click this text box to copy the text or click the COPY button below. You will see feedback to the user and this text copied to your clipboard!\n\n"+
'copyButton.onRelease = textBox.onPress = function(){\n\tSelection.setFocus("textBox");\n\tSelection.setSelection(0, textBox.text.length);\n\tSystem.setClipboard(textBox.text);\n\ttrace("copied: "+textBox.text);\n\tfeedback("Text Copied!");\n}';
copyButton.onRelease = textBox.onPress = function(){
Selection.setFocus("textBox.textBox");
Selection.setSelection(0, textBox.textBox.text.length);
System.setClipboard(textBox.textBox.text);
trace("copied: "+textBox.textBox.text);
textFeedback("Text Copied!");
}
function textFeedback(theFeedback:String){
feedback.text = theFeedback;
setTimeout(function(){feedback.text="";}, 1200);
} |
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| textBox.text = "Click this text box to copy the text or click the COPY button below. You will see feedback to the user and this text copied to your clipboard!\n\n"+
'function copyText(e:MouseEvent):void{\n\ttextBox.setSelection(0, textBox.text.length)\n\tSystem.setClipboard(textBox.text);\n\ttrace("copied: "+textBox.text);\n\ttextFeedback("Text Copied!");\n}';
//set it so the textBox selection will show even when textBox has no focus
textBox.alwaysShowSelection = true;
textBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, copyText);
copyButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, copyText);
function copyText(e:MouseEvent):void{
textBox.setSelection(0, textBox.text.length)
System.setClipboard(textBox.text);
trace("copied: "+textBox.text);
textFeedback("Text Copied!");
}
function textFeedback(theFeedback:String):void {
feedback.text = theFeedback;
setTimeout(function(){feedback.text="";}, 1200);
} |
Download
Source files: clipboard_as3.fla clipboard_as2+as3.zip
Author: Evan Mullins | Filed under: tutorial
Tags: actionscript, AIR, as2, as3, download, experiment, flash, flex, interactive, open source, tutorial
