SubjectTransformator class is a simple utility class that lets you transform (rotate, scale, drag) any DisplayObject on stage. As for now, this class may be the subject of change, so please download latest version before use. You can see the demo below in the article…
Yesterday I came across interesting articles from jpauclair. The first one is about Almighty PreloadSWF (mm.cfg attribute to define preloader for any as3 .swf file) and the second about his new Flash Visual Profiler. Long story short, you can debug and profile any ActionScript 3 compiled .swf file on the web (or local) you decide to, for example in De MonsterDebugger (open source debugger for Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR).
Few days before while I was working on TwitterLogger Class for ActionScript 3 I discovered OAuth – an open protocol to allow secure API authorization . While reading all the stuff about OAuth and PHP SDKs, I noticed one statement somewhere (can’t find it nowhere) that Facebook was in fact using OAuth for its Facebook Connect tool but some derived version. This has now changed! Facebook is standardizing communication and authorization by introducing Open Graph and OAtuh 2.0.
There is a bug in current version (2.0) of TwitterScript API. In com.twitter.api.utils.TwitterUtils.makeDate() function, there is a wrong month assignment on line 22. While you match date from a String, make sure to subtract 1 from month number, while ActionScript 3 Date.month is zero-based. Issue already submitted on TwitterScript code home page.
While watching Adobe Creative Suite 5 demonstration, I got inspired to create LinkedTextFields Class. In Flash CS5 IDE there is a new function that lets you link text fields in order to split one text into all fields based on how much fits in each (for example article columns). I tought it must be possible to do this with ActionScript 3. And it is. I created this lightweight LinkedTextFields Class that does exact the same thing as the new tool in CS5. LinkedTextFields Class lets you render plain text as well as HTML text. By default, text is splited based on white space characters, but you can define your own delimiters. Long story short, here is the proof of concept:
For the last couple of days I have been working with Twitter API, trying to make the api usable for flash in browser the same way as FacebookLogger (Facebook API extension) is. Guess what, I did it! I created TwitterLogger. TwitterLogger class extends official TwitterScript (ActionScript API) and implements OAuth (and TwitterOAuth – PHP Library to support OAuth for Twitter’s REST API) authorization protocol to gain full access into Twitter API from flash in browser.
This post is about communication between loader (Parent.as) flash object (.swf) and loaded (Child.as) flash object. While flash is event based, I find it correct to use events to communicate, although different methods exist (direct function call etc.)
I hope to clarify function of DefaultProperty metadata tag with this article, while documentation may seems to be a little unclear. What it says is: The [DefaultProperty] metadata tag defines the name of the default property of the component when you use the component in an MXML file. It is correct and easy to imagine and understand once you see a little example. So here it is:
While working with papervision, I realized papervision is missing something like hovering camera (read section Orbiting your scene using the Mouse). I decided to simulate it by using Camera3D.orbit() method. And here is the result:
