Helmut Granda
learning through interaction
Flash Player 10 Code Name Astro
Sep 26th
The name is out! Emmy Huang, product manager for Adobe Flash Player released the code name for the Flash Player 10 “Astro” and for those lucky ones that will be able to make it to MAX this year they will be able to see what “Astro” can do [...]
Amazon Mp3 Beta – Mp3 downloads for any player
Sep 25th
Amazon has decided to sell MP3 audio files on their site. Although this might not sound impressive at first since there are a lot of companies who are selling Mp3s already. The reallity is that this is the first well established company that will try to compete face to [...]
Hide Old and Reveal New Script
Sep 21st
I was talking the other day with a friend about a small challenge, having 2 images on stage with 2 ideas. 1- have the experience being user driven (in this case the mouse reveals one image while hiding the other) 2- Use XML for easy update. So we fired flash and [...]
Compile to Flash 8 when using EventDispatcher
Sep 20th
or a while I was not able to fire different events and the reason why is because I was compiling to flash player 9 instead of 8. So if there are certain events that are not firing one thing that you can check is the export settings.
Creating empty movieclips – not on the fly
Sep 19th
hen you need a visible movieclip instead of creating a movieclip on stage and cleaning it up create a moviclip directly on the Library -New Graphic-.
Halo 3 Believe
Sep 17th
“Fly though a frozen moment in Halo 3 game-like composition, take screenshots, watch videos, download wallpapers and create wallpapers on the fly.”
Movieclip Instance Name to String
Sep 13th
When Dealing with Movieclips and you need to access the refence as string do [instanceName].toString() rather than instanceName.toString()
Always do a garbage collection
Sep 10th
As simple as creating a method in your class or a function on your code to delete unnecessary variables or set them to null for garbage collection.