Posts filed under 'Flash'

Flint Particle System Tutorial

I’ve created a tutorial for the Flint Particle System. In it I create a swf to simulate snowfall…

Posted on 13 February 2008 | no comments | continue reading

Flint AS3 Particle System

Flint is an open-source project to create a versatile particle system library in Actionscript 3. The aim is to create a system that handles the common functionality for all particle systems, has methods for common particle behaviour, and lets developers extend it easily with their own custom behaviours without needing to touch the core code…

Posted on 11 February 2008 | 15 comments | continue reading

Actionscript 3 tetris source code

This will certainly be useful to anyone wanting to make a tetris game. It’s probably also useful to anyone learning Actionscript 3, particularly if they want to make games. The source code is on the Flash Game Code web site. It’s in two parts - an engine, which does the game part, and a sample game that uses the engine. Have fun.

Posted on 13 December 2007 | 2 comments | continue reading

Actionscript 3 Training in the UK

Ubiq have launched my new Actionscript 3 training courses. The first beginners course is in December, with more beginners and advanced courses next year. We’re not sure what the demand will be so if you want a course and there’s none available, just ask and we’ll try to fit in an additional course. We also have a conversion course for experienced Actionscript 2 developers which we’ll schedule according to demand.

Posted on 5 November 2007 | 2 comments | continue reading

SWFEncrypt from Flash using JSFL

At the weekend I wrote a couple of JSFL scripts to automate SWFEncrypt and SWCEncrypt encryption from within Flash.

The first publishes the current flash movie and encrypts the resulting .swf using SWFEncrypt. The second exports one or more components as SWC files and encrypts the results using SWCEncrypt.

Posted on 10 July 2007 | | continue reading

Showing DHTML content on top of flash content

I get asked about this often in my training courses so I thought it might be good to air the issue here. I’m not the first to post about this online but for some reason many people aren’t finding the solution so here it is.

How to show DHTML content (e.g. a pull-down menu) on top of flash content?…

Posted on 18 April 2007 | 1 comment | continue reading

Protecting a swf

In my training courses I often get asked about protecting swf movies. There’s two sides to this - one is encrypting the code to make it hard for others to decompile and use, and the other is limiting where the swf can be used from so that users can’t simply place your swf on their website.

There are a number of commercial and free obfuscating and encryption tools to help protect your code so I’m not going to say any more about them (maybe in a later post). Here’s a few ideas for how to limit where the swf movie may be used.

Posted on 21 March 2007 | 1 comment | continue reading

Free flash preloader components

Some time ago I created a set of components for creating preloaders. They are designed so that the graphics, style and text feedback can all be modified by the user without writing any code.

I used to charge a small fee for them but they’re getting a bit long in the tooth now. Since updating them doesn’t fit with my current plans I’m making them available for free so please help yourself…

Posted on 7 March 2007 | 2 comments | continue reading