Last week I discovered BackTweets.com which allows you to search their database of Twitter links. BackTweets.com also offers developers access to their Twitter data through an api. The Tweets Class uses this api to collect a set of data based on a user specified search string. The data is then displayed with other Designer Toolkit classes [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2009
Getting tweets from Twitter: Tweets Class
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps
Drawing a diagonal line-filled rectangle: Diagonals Class
November 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AS3 Custom Classes
The Diagonals Class is a simple drawing class for constructing a rectangle filled with parallel diagonal lines. The class can serve as a border or as a textured background.
Adding a Background to the HTMLText Class: HTMLTextBG Class
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes
The HTMLTextBG Class constructs a HTML formatted text field that is centered on a auto-sized colored background with an optional drop shadow. An optional parameter, url, may also be specified which makes the background mouse sensitive and, when clicked, will navigate to the specified url. This allows the class to be used as [...]
Tags:button·drop shadow·html·text
Moving Text: Ticker Class
November 19th, 2009 · 7 Comments · AS3 Custom Classes
The Ticker Class is a news ticker with a variety of user specified settings. In addition to the text displayed, the color, size, regular/bold, background color and rate of movement are all customizable.
Drawing a dot-filled rectangle: DottedField Class
November 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AS3 Custom Classes
The other day I found this site thru-you.com (very cool) that used dashed lines and dotted rectangles as the basis of its design motif. Since, I had already done the DashedLine Class, I decided to do the DottedField Class of which two examples are below.
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Traversing XML and the for each.. Loop
November 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Tutorials
This post is an expansion of the November 8 post on getting data stored in a XML file into Actionscript 3 based on the ECMAScript E4X standards.
Tags:for each..·xml
Improving the ImageRollover Class, Again: Tweening the Rollover
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes
Last night I was reviewing the traffic reports for the site, when I noticed that a visitor had arrived at this site by searching for “flash caurina desaturate”. The phrase gave me the idea that I could improve the earlier ImageRollover class simply by substituting tweened rollovers in place of the abrupt transitions in [...]
Tags:button·colorfiltermatrix·desaturate·image·rollover·tween
Transferring Data from XML to Actionscript 3
November 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Tutorials
In this post, I’ll cover the transfer of data stored in an external XML file into a Flash Actionscript 3 application. In Actionscript 3, handling XML files has been vastly improved – and simplified – with two new classes: the XML and the XMLList classes.