My sister in law sent me this via email, and I know it’s been a while since I posted anything here (for good reason – and one you’ll soon find out about). So with out a doubt, let your imagination fly, and check out some of this work!

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I’ve been following a ton of “multi-touch” video’s, demo’s, and blogs and quite frankly I’m convinced. Multi-touch IS the next big thing. (if it isn’t already).

Recently I came across Sub Cycle. It’s author Christian Bannister is creating musical effects based on multi-touch gestures. While the tracks still have work to go, the concept is brilliant! Check it out…

low frequency entity – subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

You might also want to read Lee Brimelow’s latest post regarding Flash Websites and multi-touch devices (monitors, smart phones, etc).

Hope you enjoy!
L

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I just installed my Master Collection last night, and as I was running through a few of the new features in Flash CS5, I thought it best to show you that there is now file size watching. (look, that’s what I call it)

Check it out:

I’m also very stoked about the file snippets panel which not only has common AS3 snippets, but also allows for creation of custom snippets.

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I’ve really been anticipating Adobe Flash CS5 for many reasons. The main being (along with every other flash developer) is the ability to create and deploy IPhone applications. I am really excited about this being that I don’t know a lick of Objective C, nor do I ever care to learn it.

For the Friday Video of the day, I have a few videos that discuss the IPhone capabilities in Flash CS5. I also came across VERY good documentation / tutorial for creating IPhone applications from Flash. It’s a 4 part video series, and I’ve dropped them in below.

Now earlier today, I tweeted Apple’s new terms have limited Iphone applications to approved languages. I’m not sure how this will affect the release of the CS5 suite, but you can read more on Lee Brimelow’s blog. For me, it’s Friday, and that topic is more of a Monday situation!

Have a good weekend. I’m on vacation until April 26th.
L

Flash CS5 Info

Flash CS5 IPhone Tutorial Part 1

Flash CS5 IPhone Tutorial Part 2

Flash CS5 IPhone Tutorial Part 3

Flash CS5 IPhone Tutorial Part 4

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So, over the past few days, I’ve been working on a project that requires a fancybox call from flash. WOE. I know, say what? It’s actually a lot easier than you think! So, Check this out… here is how to call fancybox from your AS3 swf.

After the directions… you’ll notice I trying to call a list of images (a gallery). If anyone has achieved that, please feel free to let us all know.

1. create a button in AS3 (or movieclip)

2. give it an instance name of myButton.

3. In order for fancybox to hear your click, you’ll have to use ExternalInterface to call your js functions from flash.

Sounds like a mouth full, but it’s simple. Just add this to the first frame of your
time line:

 
// IMPORT CLASSES
import flash.external.*;
 
// ADD MOUSE EVENT LISTENER
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myClick);
 
// CREATE FUNCTION
function myClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
     // CALL YOUR JS FUNCTION HERE IN STRING FORM
     ExternalInterface.call("callFancy");
 
}

4. Now we need to add some code to our HTML document. First, we need
to add a hidden < div > container. So, just above your flash div,
(assuming your using SWFObject — which you should be) add this:

<div id="hidden_clicker" style="display:none;">
        <a class="featured"></a>
</div>

****NOTE : You must call your swfobject.js first… then put in the swf calls, followed by the jquery.min.js, followed by all your fancybox.js scripts. See example for more info ****

5. Now we need to add our JavaScript code. You’ll see the name of
this function is the same as the string we called in flash. Add the
following to your < head > section:

<script type="text/javascript" >
     function callFancy(my_href) {
        var j1 = document.getElementsByClassName("featured");
        j1.href = my_href;
        $('.featured').trigger('click');
     }
</script>

6. OK, now that we are done with that, we still need to define our
fancybox JavaScript — to make it look the way I want… now, this is where I
have questions, but I’ll get to that in a minute. Add this to your
fancybox call. In my case ‘.featured’.

**NOTE – I am calling several different fancybox calls, so I have a
separate .js file with all these calls in it. make sense?

        $(".featured").fancybox({
                'overlayOpacity'        : 0.7,
                'overlayColor'          : '#000',
                'centerOnScroll'                : true,
                'hideOnContentClick'    : true,
                'hideOnOverlayClick'    : true,
                'autoDimensions'        : true,
                'padding'                       : 0,
                'href'                          : 'PUTYOURIMAGEHERE.jpg',
                'title'                                 : 'PUTYOURTITLEHERE',
                'transitionIn'                  : 'fade',
                'transitionOut'                 : 'fade'
        })

7. That’s it.. your done!

Get the SOURCE files here

I hope you find this helpful.

L

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