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Prototyping the Bookshelves function

March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

I originally wrote this function in 2007 in Actionscript 2 (remember createEmptyMovieClip) and recently rewrote it in as3.  The concept is to present a series of “shelves” that move together vertically as a group but move independently of each other when moving horizontally.  Instead of a grid of rows and buttons imagine shelves of books with each [...]

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Improving the ImageManager class

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

The ImageManager class, introduced in the last post, has been modified to expand its usability.  In the first iteration, the id of the image displayed was contained internally and could not be used by an outside function or class; in the modified version the current image id is announced to external event listeners via a custom [...]

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Using a fly transition to load images: the ImageManager class

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

The ImageManager class displays a series of images with the transition from one image to the next actuated by a mouse click.  Otherwise hidden next and previous arrows are displayed when the mouse is hovered over the image – clicking on the right half of the image navigates to the next image and clicking on the [...]

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