Tag Archives: open source

Voters Aide | Prioritize the Issues this Election | Interactive Flash App

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 October 2008
To accompany the last presidential debate, I ask a question: Who to vote for? It’s not just about what party you’re affiliated with, who you agree with more on an issue or which candidate you understand better… it’s a combination of them all. It’s more important how a candidate can handle the different issues facing us today [...]
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Event Tracking with Google Analytics | Flash Integration | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 3 October 2008
Many have read my Integrate Google Analytics with Flash Tutorial in which I express enthusiasm for the new event tracking at google analytics! Well, it’s been a while, but I was admitted to the Beta testing group! So I’ve now had the chance to play with event tracking a bit and wanted to publish my [...]
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Rounded Bar Percentage Preloader for Flash Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 22 September 2008
I’ve had a couple inquiries about how to do a simple preloader in Flash. The technique and also the actionscript which implements the technique. So here is a percentage preloader example with source code and a source file to play with. Overview So the idea of a preloader is to hold the swf until the file has [...]
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Interactive Image Viewer v1 @ FlashDen

By Evan Mullins | Published: 17 September 2008
I’ve re-purposed an old project of mine, the interactive pog portfolio viewer, to FlashDen. I call it the pog portfolio because each work is represented by a circle, or pog, and you play ith it in the “bay” with different interactive physics configurations. When you click a pog you can view a close up image [...]
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Actionscript Key Listener Tutorial AS3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 August 2008
Overview Allowing users to use the keyboard as well as the mouse is a great way to incite interaction with your flash. This tutorial will show how to code it and what you can do with some keyboard events. This changed with actionscript 3, note this tutorial is AS3. altKeY (Boolean) Indicates whether the Alt key is [...]
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Actionscript to Reference Dynamically created instances Flash Movie Clip | Array notation | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 14 July 2008
Overview: Often I’ve had some dynamically created movieclip and then wanted to reference it in my code. This is hard to do if it is named dynamically as well, such as with an incrementing variable. If you use one (or more) variable to name an instance in run time, you can’t always know what it will [...]
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Brownian Movement in Actionscript | Random Motion Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 24 June 2008
Overview Having things drift around or move randomly has always interested me. Having an animation that is never going to be the exact same thing is very exciting. The focus turns from key-ing exact animations to programming a feel and letting the animations take car of themselves! One type of seemingly random motion is Brownian motion. [...]
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Style htmlText with CSS in your Actionscript | Flash/CSS Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 5 June 2008
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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