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inverse “masking” in AS3
Here’s a great tidbit I found on creating a reverse “masking” effect in as3: http://franto.com/inverse-masking-disclosed/ below is an example using text as an inverse mask. example A few notes: 1) this isn’t really a mask, it’s a blendMode effect, so … Continue reading
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Singleton Event Controller
[edit: the links referenced in this post are unfortunately broken, I have removed them and posted the full code - see below.] I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been involved in a big project, so will have lots to … Continue reading
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(more) text effects with TweenMax
EXAMPLE This is an improvement on the technique used here This one deals with linemetrics, and solves the weakness of the other one (that it only works well with monotype fonts) Here’s the class code: Note – you must have … Continue reading
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Tagged Actionscript, Flash, flash effects, Flex, text, text effect, text effect flex, text effects, tweenLite, tweenMax
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Auto Resizing Text Area Component – Flex
Just to spread the word, there is a great article here with an AutoResizing TextArea component that seems to work well. I added one small thing to support resizing of htmlText too (see below). (add this code to the component) … Continue reading
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Documenting your classes with ASDoc
I started working on this today for the first time for a new project I want to document. After some reading online, I found many people having problems with this, and complaining about problems using ASDocs through the command line, … Continue reading
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Tagged asdoc, asdoc flex, docs, documenting actionscript, documenting clases, running asdoc
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GuerrillaMail disposable email
This isn’t about Flex or Flash, but it’s a useful item for any developer, and I’d thought I’d share to anyone who doesn’t already know about it. Using Guerrilla Mail, you can generate a free, anonymous, disposable email address that … Continue reading
Tracking ‘Pages’ in a Flex app with Google Analytics
Tracking ‘Pages’ in a Flex app with Google Analytics Google Code Page: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/flashTrackingIntro.html download the tracking library here: http://code.google.com/p/gaforflash/downloads/list 1)After downloading the zip file, unzip it, and goto lib/analytics.swc (not analytics_flash.swc) 2)in your flex app, goto project -> properties -> … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, flex + google analytics, flex stats, google analytics, hits, pageviews, statcounter, stats, tracking
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I’m Loving TweenLite!
If you haven’t yet used tweenLite, check it out, I think you’ll like it… http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3/ Form their site: “DESCRIPTION:
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New Social Networking Space For RIA Developers
www.flexcommunity.net We are happy to announce that we are beginning our first baby steps with a new site aimed at creating a networking space specifically for RIA developers. The goal is to build community, help developers find each other (and … Continue reading
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