The Flash Art of War

While building the NapkinNotebook site I needed a flexible View Class that all of the animated objects on the stage could be extended from. This is the class I decided to go with.

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I am sure by now you know about the NapkinNotebook website I did for Euro RSCG but what I haven’t had a chance to show you yet is some of the code behind how it works.

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I just built a utility that will allow you to dynamically load in a swf with library assets and pull them out to use them anywhere in your application. This is the evolution of this code example from Adobe. Here is what you need to know to get it up and running quickly:

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I built a little demo application to show off some of my AS 3.0 stuff and posted some images as well as the source code on my portfolio site bfreedesign.com. This app took me 20 hours to build (5 for research/planning, 10 to build, and 5 to debug). See screen shots here and the demo/source code here!

There is a lot of good code in there so please be nice and show some love to FlashArtOfWar or any of my other sites¹

1. some of my other sites: jessefreeman.com | bfreedesign.com | flashbum.com | iliketodream.com [↩]

I have always been a big fan of the “LightBox” effect in web 2.0 apps and wrote this little class to use in my applications.

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For the past few days I have been doing research on how to build skinnable applications for MLB.com. The goal is to load an external swf with assets that someone in the design department could publish. Today I hit the jackpot!

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Yahoo has posted source files for 5 new CS 3 components ( Tree, Menu, TabBar, AutoComplete, and Charts).

See for yourself here: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-flash/

Looking for a good utility for loading in xml config files and keeping variable’s natively typed? Well, I thought I would share this class also based on the same concept as my XML Proxy Class adapted from the AS 3 Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson.

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This is a little class I built after reading AS 3 Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson¹. I use this as a base class for building objects out of XML.

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1. Both were good speakers at Flash Belt 2007 [↩]

This utility is great for making quick reflections from MCs or Sprites. You simply pass it the DisplayObject and depending on the method you call, it will return you a reflection copy.

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