Tag Archives: usability

Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0

By Evan Mullins | Published: 26 August 2009
I’ve written a tutorial which is published over at flash.tutsplus. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer and covers xml parsing, loading and resizing external images, and creating intuitive and responsive scrolling!
So check out the Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0 [...]
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Forthcoming Actionscript Image Scroller Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 14 July 2009
Here is a preview of a file I’m writing a tutorial for. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it deals with many normal tasks and will show my process a bit. This tutorial will show how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer. It will cover xml loading & parsing, loading & resizing external images to fit [...]
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Actionscript Drag & Drop Tutorial | Vertical and Horizontal Flash Sliders

By Evan Mullins | Published: 18 May 2009
A specific use of drag and drop which is a bit more complicated than your average drag & drop needs is a slider. You can use components, but I usually prefer using my own graphics and code, partly because the components tend to bloat the filesize of the swf and partly because that’s just [...]
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Flash Video Issue: loadbar (size) vs playbar (time) usability

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 May 2009
This deals with some issues I’m having with the seekbar of a player. The seekbar is the area that displays the video time as a bar that shows your current position/percentage of the video, it can also display the loaded portion of the video among other things as well. Including the video players I’ve made, [...]
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Stomper Scrutinizer Browser AIR App

By Evan Mullins | Published: 2 April 2008
Software for viewing websites through a simulated fovea vision. Since not everyone could set-up, let alone afford a real eye-tracker. This software uses the mouse pointer as the user’s focal point, or foveal view. It blurs everything except where your focal point (the mouse) is. It is helpful because it forces you to re-think web [...]
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Custom Flash Video Player @ FreeIQ and StomperNet

By Evan Mullins | Published: 31 March 2008
The flash video player designed and developed for Free IQ and StomperNet. Plays video and audio content for a user. I implemented 85% of the actionscript, creating intuitive interactivity and functionality. External xml plsylist, author biography display, content details, share by email, social bookmarking, get embed codes, and more. Sleek design for maximum intuitive user [...]
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