Archive forProducing – Flash

New flash effects available!

Dot Transition Effect **free**

Flash Dots Transition Effect

Moving Morph Effect

Flash Moving Morph Effect

Blured Diamonds Effect **free**

Flash Blured Diamonds Effect

Moving Boxes Effect **free**

Flash Moving Boxes Effect

Flush Effect

Flash Flush Effect

Spin Tiles 3D Effect

Flash Spin Tiles 3D Effect

Tile Twist Effect

Flash Tile Twist Effect

Comments

Flash effects now available as Banner Edition

The guys from flash-filter.net just announced, that all AS2 effect component are now available as ‘Banner Edition’. This means smaller file size and tested with the big banner networks. The complete news here…

Comments off

New cool flash effect components available!

Fire Flame Effect, Fold Transition Effect, Cube Transition Effect, Iris Transition Effect and Cut Transition Effect. These are the new flash components from flash-filter.net. Check them out here:

Fire Flame Effect

Online Demo | Buy Online | Free trial

Fold Transition Effect

Online Demo | Buy Online

Cube Transition Effect

Online Demo | Buy Online

Iris Transition Effect **free**

Online Demo | Download

Cut Transition Effect **free**

Online Demo | Download

Comments off

MTC – Mask Transition Component v1.0 out now

“MTC is a easy to use components witch allows you to create transitions in a minute”. Year, thats true. I used this effect on several projects and created a component back in the days with Flash 6. Since you have this nice Bitmap possibilitys with Flash 8 now, i decided to create a new advanced component.

Its easy to use for designers (just drag onto a MovieClip) and really powerful for programmers. Just visit the project site play around with the parameters and have fun. :)

flash8components.com

Comments (1)

Bug in component metadata

As some of you may know, the Macromedia V2 Component Architecture allows you, to work with metadata in your classfiles. You can i.e. add a icon-file to your component , which display in the component panel// add an icon to your component
[IconFile("CarGame.png")]

With another metadata-tag you declare params as inspectable, which means that the user can edit this param. // make the variable speed inspectable by the user
[Inspectable(defaultValue="5")]
public var speed:Number;

If you want to hide the internal var name, you can give the param a “display name” which is displayed in the component inspector panel.// set default value, give display name, set type of value
[Inspectable(defaultValue="5", name="Car Speed", type="Number")]
public var speed:Number;

Now the bug. You can’t use square bracket in the name value. When i want to show the user a range of the value i usually write something like this: Car Speed [0-10]. Unfortunately, this is not possible because flash return a compiling error, when you use the squared bracket close ( ] ) in the name value of the inspectable metadata tag. Time for another bug report…

Comments off

Two “Out-of-the-Box” Tooltips

This time i offer two different tooltips i used in recent projects. They are pretty easy to use.

The first one gives you the ability to set text, width and mousefollow. The MovieClip automaticly breaks the text to the set width, the height is as high as it needs to fill the text in. Inside the mc you find a guide textfield, here you can change you typo. Also you find a fin mc. You can exchange the png inside or draw a vector fin. Keep in mind, that the peak of the fin has to be on the coordinates 0/0.

The second one is for horizontal use only. It has no width or mouse parameter.

Download Tooltip1
Download Tooltip2

Comments off

Details of the JSFL-Bug

Like i wrote in the previous Post, there is a Bug in JSFL which makes it impossible to implement a requested feature. Here more detailed to give Adobe a hand to find the problem.

To set the linkage behavior via JSFL you skript this:

fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[0].linkageExportForAS = true;
// enable the linkage export for the first item of the libary

This works perfectly with movieclips. When you try to do this with a image it doesn’t work, the behavior don’t chage.

Now the strange part. Tracing the linkageExportForAS of a image with

alert(fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[0].linkageExportForAS)
// trace linkageExportForAS for first frame in the libary

returns false if the no linkageExport is enabled (corrent). But when you set the linkageExport for the image manually, it traces undefined. Which means that even when you already set the linkageExport manually and you want to disable it, it’s not working.

Comments off

Tried to upgrade IFC2MC – and failed…

Michael Kneib thought is might be useful not only to have the ability to set the export settings for a generated mc but also for the image itself. So you can access the images via BitmapData.loadBitmap(). Unfortunately because of a bug this seems to be impossible. Though this is obviously possible with movieclips (and maybe also with buttons, graphics and even wav, i didn’t test them) there seems to be a bug when you try to set the linkageExportForAS for an image.

I already wrote a bugreport to adobe, i hope they fix that problem soon. Since this is only a problem concerning the authoring program maybe Adobe fix that on their patch day. Until then you sadly have to wait for this feature…

Comments off

IFC2MC – Update

My office mate finally used the application, he made some suggestions how to optimize the workflow. Originally the application add suffix “0″ depending of the number of imported images. So when you import 10 images the first will be named “yourName01″. In case of importing 1000 the first images will be named “yourName0001″. Especially when using loops, this behavior is not necessarily useful. So i added the ability to deactivate this. Additionally you can now edit the import folder field and a few bugs are fixed.

Changes:

  • Ability to deactivate suffix “0″
  • Editable import folder field
  • Fix a Bug when importing
  • No JavaScript-Error if you set “not overwrite”
  • Ambed ALL Textfield fonts

Download

Comments off

Import Folder & Convert 2 MC (IFC2MC)

The other day a office mate of mine asked me, if there is a faster way to import several images, convert them to clips and give them a linkageID then doing at all manually. Unfortunately this wasn’t possible with Flash 7.

Flash 8 has a bunch of new JSFL methods. Amongst others browseForFolderURL and importFile. This allows us to open a “select folder”-window and gives us the possibility to dynamically import files.

Here you go. If there a questions or requests simply post a comment or write me an email.

IFC2MC

Features:

  • Import all pictures of a folder (jpg and png)
  • auto create lib-folder to move the imported pictures into
  • auto name the mc to create
  • select the reg-point for the mc to create
  • give linkageID and class name

Download

Comments (1)