Colin Moock: master of actionscript.
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we recently announced a free 1000-user licence for Union. also, this week, we posted an online multiplayer pong game tutorial and a multiuser fridge magnets tutorial. happy (multiuser) coding!...
Earlier this week, Adobe released Flash Builder 4, the successor to Flex Builder 3. The new version includes a ground-up overhaul of the Flex SDK component set and significant enhancements to both the ActionScript development environment and the MXML design environment. Anyone using Flex Builder …
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On May 7/8 I'm doing a hands-on workshop on the fundamentals of object-oriented programming ("OOP") in ActionScript 3.0. The course covers all OOP basics, including: Classes, objects, and packages Methods and variables Inheritance Encapsulation Datatypes and error handling Garbage collection and …
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i recently sat in on one of joshua davis's workshops in toronto and had a good look at hype--an ActionScript 3.0 class library for creating scripted motion graphics. simply put, hype is nice. joshua and branden hall (hype's creators) have done a great job wrapping powerful and complex features in …
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Learn about Union (a platform for building multiuser applications) and MegaPhone (a hosted service for developing multiuser big-screen games you control with your phone) in these two recently posted presentations: Multiuser Adventures at FITC >> …
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last saturday erik natzke opened Colors of Nature, a solo show in toronto's function 13 gallery, run by fitc. while i've always been a fan of erik's experiments, and i love seeing his work running live on huge digital screens, prior to last saturday, i had never actually seen any of his paper …
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Last week at Flash on the Beach 2009 in Brighton, England, Flash authoring product manager Richard Galvan demonstrated some of the improved integration planned for Flash CS5 and Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder). Like most of the ActionScript developer community, I've been waiting for …
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fitc mobile in toronto is only two months away (september 13-14, 2009). i'll be there showing how to use the MegaPhone platform to build phone-controlled multiuser games that run on big public screens (like the ones in times square, sports stadiums, restaurant chains, airports, etc)....
When it comes to the width and height variables of ActionScript's DisplayObject, what you see is not always what you get. For example, consider the following code, which draws a 50x75 rectangle at position (10, 10) in a Sprite, and then masks it with a 40-pixel-diameter circle: // The mask var …
