Open Mike: Brackets
Sep 1, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Allman or K&R? This is Open Mike, a series of discussion posts to throw the cat amongst the pigeons. These posts are all about you — we want to hear your opinions, ideas, and thoughts. To kick things off, let’s talk about brackets .
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, AIR, code, Flex, freebies, premium, Silverlight, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, web design
Layout for Silverlight User Interfaces
Sep 1, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Silverlight lays out user interface elements in Panels with various capabilities ranging from fixed, pixel-based layout through to flexible, fluid designs. You can make use of the existing layout mechanisms or build your own Panels to supplement what’s available. Let’s take a look at what’s involved.. In this video, we’ll examine the Panels available and the various properties around alignment and sizing that come into play when you’re laying out elements for Silverlight UI.
Tags: actionscript, basix, Flex, games, mobile, premium, Silverlight, Tutorials, videos
Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two
Aug 31, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Tutorials
By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these experiences to actually realize that you might be able to pull it off yourself.. I’m talking about most of us who have experience with Flash and AS3 and a bit of extra creativity in store. FITC has given me a fresh set of ideas and opened up a new playground I can experiment in.
Tags: actionscript, activetuts, basix, Design, download, Flash Catalyst, mobile, Tutorials, videos, workflow
Using AS3XLS with the Flex Framework: Excel Import
Aug 27, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
This tutorial will cover implementation of the AS3XLS ActionScript 3.0 library for the Flex framework. We will demonstrate loading an Excel .xls file into Flash and parsing the data into a Flex datagrid. View Screencast Don’t like ads? Download the screencast, or subscribe to Activetuts+ screencasts via iTunes!
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, AIR, basix, Flash, games, Silverlight, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, videos
Create an Epic War Game in Flash: Part 1 – Active Premium
Aug 26, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
In this two-part Active Premium tutorial we’ll be building a top-down war game from scratch. Creating a game is definitely one of the most involved tasks in the world of programming and my mission here is to help Premium members make this process a little bit easier. We run a Premium membership system for $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to all other Premium content (Psd Premium, Net Premium etc.) and whilst logged in, your favorite Tuts+ sites are all completely ad-free ! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Our war game will implement many different concepts from building a background based on xml data to breaking colors into separate channels using bitwise operators. The game itself will not be like some MMORPG (it would probably take several volumes of a book to describe the process of complicated game creation).
Tags: actionscript, AIR, basix, facebook, Flash, Flex, freebies, games, premium, Tutorials
New Higher Envato Marketplace Rates!
Aug 25, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
For four years the Envato Marketplaces have helped authors around the world earn an income selling their digital wares. Along the way we’ve grown from one marketplace to seven, with more on the way. We’ve gone from hundreds of members to hundreds of thousands . Items from our marketplaces have appeared in projects for companies big and small, all around the world.
Tags: actionscript, Design, freebies, games, mobile, Silverlight, Tutorials, Twitter, web design, workflow
Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value
Aug 19, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of value for only $20. The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages for CSS, JavaScript, WordPress and PHP, seven motion graphics projects, sixteen PSDs and vector files, three CG models and textures, six royalty-free audio files and a $10 voucher for Rockable Press . When you buy the bundle and open it up for the first time, you’ll be amazed at the value inside. The bundle is on sale for 5 days, starting now.
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, articles, birthday-bundle, Design, envato, facebook, Flex, freebies, games, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, Twitter, web design
Packaging Silverlight Applications
Aug 18, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Resources, Tutorials
Silverlight applications are simple in that there’s an HTML page that launches the plug-in and a packaging file format (XAP) for the code and resources themselves. Here, we take a quick look at how those applications are packaged and how we go from HTML page to running Silverlight code on the screen and also talk a little around how to include your own class libraries and resources such as images, videos, etc. What’s Covered? Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s covered in this screencast: The XAP format Running your app Publishing your app to a web page / embedding the app in a web page (either ASPX or HTML) Using multiple projects in one solution (separate projects for application proper and class library) Using server-based images (external images) inside the app Embedding images inside the XAP (two ways) View Screencast Don’t like ads?
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, AIR, Design, Flash, Flex, freebies, games, mobile, Silverlight, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, videos
Flash for Android: Nexus One vs. HTC Evo for Developers
Aug 17, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
In this video I will cover two phones from a hardware perspective, the Nexus One running Android 2.2 and the HTC EVO running 2.1. Retro Boxing Poster by James Davies . Screencast: Nexus One vs. HTC Evo Both phones are great for Flash development but I prefer the larger, more responsive screen of the HTC EVO over the Nexus One.
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, Design, facebook, Flex, games, mobile, nexus, premium, Silverlight
Delay function in Actionscript 3
Aug 10, 2010 Flash, General, Tutorials
I previously wrote a post called Time delay in Actionscript 3 where I showed different ways of setting a time delay. In this post I will show two ways of delaying a function. You can use the native… Copyright © 2010 ilike2flash.
Tags: actionscript, archives, delay, displaymessage, linkbar, settimeout, tweenlite, videos
