workold

Here are some selected projects in the workold category.

Calling a function in the parent class



Damned useful post here describing (simply) how to communicate between classes.
http://www.calypso88.com/?p=301

June 24, 2009



FlashDevelop for AS3



I have recently switched to developing everything with FlashDevelop and I have got to say it is the best move I ever made with Flash. It’s not just a sweet AS3 editor; the project view makes everything a lot easier to manage, especially when you have packages and classes all over the place.
Version 3 is [...]

June 23, 2009



Flash SetTimeout() function



This is a damned useful way of performing timed events.

June 21, 2009



DeMonsterDebugger



DeMonster Debugger for Flash is just the most powerful way of debugging live SWFs i’ve ever seen. Saying that, it’s the only live SWF debugger I’ve ever seen. It’s like Firebug for Flash. It allows you to change properties of objects in your movie – while the movie is running! ! Nice
http://demonsterdebugger.com/

June 20, 2009



London Symphony Orchestra



This movie requires Flash Player 9

swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.chrischurn.com/work/lso/lso_slideshow.swf”, “swf32831″, “623″, “350″, “9.0.0″, “”, {}, {wmode: “transparent”, menu: “false”, quality: “high”, bgcolor: “#FFFFFF”}, {});

This is a recent flash project for the big screens in the foyer of the London Symphony Orchestra building near St. Pauls.

June 17, 2009



SWFObject 2.2 is out



The latest version of the lovely SWFObject has just been released
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Check this swfobject code generator out too, very useful
http://onflash.org/swfobject/

June 15, 2009



Brightcove TV player launched



Finally completed my bit of the ElleTV video player/library.
It’s made with Brightcove and we did the video library with EZPublish. Looks pretty sweet
www.elleuk.com/elletv

June 8, 2009



Firefox wmode transparent graphic problem



I came across a problem with firefox and flash when using wmode=transparent. Elements were just going crazy, redrawing in different places and generally misbehaving. Anyway, after many tears and much futile googling I found that the problem was to do with flash filters (eg. glow). Firefox just can’t cope with flash filters in transparent mode. [...]

June 6, 2009