The other day I was approached by a flash designer who was creating an avatar drag & drop interface. He wanted to know how I would approach creating such an interface. Well he didn’t like my answer because I drew him into OOP land. He was trying to avoid all that, so I gave him the run down on how he could build a simple drag & drop and then hack his way to save it to the model. After creating...

Migrating from ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 has been a bit bumpy, since my brain has been trained to solve problems in AS 2 for a very long time. While starting out on my mission to conquer AS 3, I realized that I use to rely on AttachMovie to dynamically place assets on stage. Unfortunately, attachMovie has been replaced with addChild. So the question becomes: How do I work with assets in the library? The answer...

I’m now in the process of migrating my 10 + years of Flash ActionScript knowledge to AS 3.0. I have been stuck in AS 2.0 for a while now, due to client work. I book marked a link back in 2008 that should make this process easier. Playing around in AS 3 has been a delight. The basic differences I have noticed are: Underscores For most properties of a MovieClip, TextField, ect. have dropped the underscore. mc._x...

Here’s a link to Fred Leighton’s project that uses both hardware and flash to create stunning visuals. Fred’s project basically takes MIDI notes and velocity values from a MIDI instrument track directly to MAX/MSP where the values are sent to Flash via the Flashserver. The values are then mapped to movieclips that adjust RGB settings in flash. I’m thinking about porting this over to AS...