It’s embarrassing but until the other week I hadn’t a reason to do anything (beyond tinkering) with JSFL. JSFL can be especially useful for simplifying or automating tasks in the Flash IDE and that isn’t breaking news. I think I understand why I haven’t been using JSFL too much until recently. It was the time…
Dynamic tweening is really important to a Flash Developer, and when I was programming in AS2 my tweening library of choice was either FuseKit or the Zigo Engine. Since AS3 there have been a few options available:TweenerTween LiteAdobe’s TweenGTweenASAP Tween There have been many posts of reactjs developers on how some are better in performance…
This handy script applies a profiler option to the right click Flash Context Menu which allows you to debug or track the current FPS or memory used by your SWF. Further to this it also stores a configurable history length of the frame rate and memory performance for the SWF. Adding this feature into your…
Just recently I have needed an in depth understanding of AS3 efficiency practises, so I figured this is easiest done by getting involved in a series of relevant tests. Though there are similar blog posts regarding this most have been focused on either loops or Number types and this article won’t repeat these tests as I too discovered similar…
Recently I have been working on something involving the use of video content from Youtube. With the lack of a good API out there I created my own. Below is a simple example of this working with sample code to download further below. AS3 example import com.flashdynamix.services.YouTube; import com.flashdynamix.events.YouTubeEvent; // var yt:YouTube = new YouTube();…
Please refer to this article for the latest AS3 version for the project. I have finally had the time to rip the code out of X-Planet and supply it as an open source script API. I have setup example FLA’s with AS 2.0 source supplied under GNU Lesser General Public License for Google Earth Maps, Google Moon, Google Mars, Virtual Earth Windows Maps, Ask Maps,…
