Code snippet: pass preloader flashvars to main swf
Needed some way generic way to get my flashvars from the preloader to the loaded swf I just extend the url with the flashvars like this
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Needed some way generic way to get my flashvars from the preloader to the loaded swf I just extend the url with the flashvars like this
Just some fun with Away3D and the SoundMixer class. View example
There are a growing number of posts about the technique to distort an image with the drawTriangles() function. But most of those examples create a lot of extra vertices that aren’t needed for displaying the image and more calculation means more CPU consumption. I explain here how to work with…
Not so long ago I saw a nice menu from (I’m not really sure) a game console on TV. It had a tilted view on 3D planes with information from a games and after selecting a plane the plane rotate toward the camera so you could see more detail from…
In some cases you have 2 different XML files to show 2 different lines in a lineChart. For example you want to compare a companies incomming with another month and each month is in a different XML. In a dataTipRenderer I show the styled data but I can only access…
I’m making a tree like menu structure. It is already a hacky business but now I encountered another problem. And I have no clue where it is happening and if I do something wrong or Flex is messing it up. I have a Tree component that uses a tree renderer…
A few weeks ago I was busy finding a graduate project. And during that time augmented reality looked very interesting. Most of you know what it means, for the others here a small explaining line from wikipedia: Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the…
Here in Holland you have free news papers that you can read when you consume any kind of public transportation. In my childhood when I was bored I took a newspaper and draw all sorts of objects on photo’s of famous people, like: glasses, moustaches, beards and acme. I think…
After the Flash Google maps API release I spend some time to see what is possible. I started with the documentation from Google. In there documentation they are using the latitude and longitude coordinates to set the center of your map. This is not really a human readable way to…
Is it me or is file.url a lot easier to use than file.nativePath in Adobe AIR. Maybe I’m missing something because every tutorial or code snippet I can find uses file.nativePath. I’m busy building an AIR application that can be used on Windows and Mac OS. I have to take…