Setmask fails with movieclip

1 Oct 2007 In: AS Burst

f your setmask(mask) fails make sure the movieclip you are masking is not too long or the set masking will fail, even if you set cacheAsBitmap = true.

QBN Sessions Presents Joshua Davis

27 Sep 2007 In: videos

Flash Player 10 Code Name Astro

26 Sep 2007 In: News

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 first hand.
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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 face with Apple (Itunes).

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Hide Old and Reveal New Script

21 Sep 2007 In: Flash Bits, Tutorials

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 the above is the visual and the code below...

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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

19 Sep 2007 In: AS Burst

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

17 Sep 2007 In: Recognition

"Fly though a frozen moment in Halo 3 game-like composition, take screenshots, watch videos, download wallpapers and create wallpapers on the fly."

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Movieclip Instance Name to String

13 Sep 2007 In: AS Burst

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

10 Sep 2007 In: AS Burst

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.

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During the day I work as a Sr. Rich Media Designer for T3, During the evenings I enjoy the best time of the day as a husband and a father and sometimes during the nights I work for myself at multimedia247.

This blog is mostly about my findings on the web, my contribution to noobs to flash that might be able to learn something from the site. If you dont consider yourself a noob and you still were able to learn or discover something new on this blog, even better.