Flash

Jackson Pollock – From AS2 to AS3

I found a Jackson Pollock style painting example written in AS2 called ‘Splatter’ over at stamen.com. I wanted to include a Pollock style brush in my painting application so I converted it into AS3. Just copy and past the following code into a new AS3 document in Flash.

Spray Paint stenciling in Flash

After seeing the Wii Spray demo videos a year or so ago I have since been wondering how they did the stencils. I couldn’t find any information on how to achieve an effect like paint stenciling so today I decided to give it a shot myself. Below is a small demo where you can have […]

Multitouch Paint – Part 2

Here is an updated version of my MT Paint application. Some of the improvements are: New UI (work in progress) Custom canvas size Up to 5 Layers with Merge and Duplicate Layer Blend Modes, Opacity and Visibilty Load in Image to layer Get Colour From Layer – select a layer to live sample colours from […]

Multitouch Paint

Multitouch Paint ( I haven’t given it a proper name yet) is a painting application I have been working on over the last couple weeks. Basically I wanted to create an app that was more then simple solid lines you see with most other Flash painting programs. I wanted something that was more like paint […]

Videos from Adobe MAX Sneaks

Below is some videos taken at the Adobe MAX 2010 conferences during Sneaks sessions. Sneaks sessions are a chance for Adobe to demonstrate prototypes and new technologies that may or may not make it into future Adobe products. Some pretty interesting stuff! Typography of Code- a new way of displaying and reading code for designers […]

The future of 3D and Flash

Below are some videos from the new 3D apis codenamed ‘Molehill’ to be included in the next version of Flash. This was announced at the Adobe MAX conference yesterday. This is some pretty amazing stuff… full 3D maps and all done on the GP

UberSnake – my Flash snake game

Here’s what I’ve been doing this week… making a Flash version of the old game ‘Snake’ which I’m sure a lot of people spent plenty of time playing on the old Nokia phones. This game had a lot of firsts for me in relation to ActionScript. This is the first thing I’ve done completely from […]

AS3: Code hinting, completion and highlighting in Air apps

Over the last couple of months I have been working on a text editor, for which I made a history manager class that I posted about a little while back. This time as a bit of an experiment/challenge I tried to include some code hinting and code completion functionality to the editor similar to Dreamweaver, […]

Magnetic Words Multitouch App

Here is a small app I created in Flash in less than 10 minutes (most of that time was getting words!). Inspired by those fridge magnets which are a bunch of words that can be mixed and matched to make obscure and hilarious sentences. Excuse the dodgey touch response at the start… my screen still […]

AS3 – Getting the order of MovieClips in the stage

Here is yet another small code snippet which allows you to get the order of MovieClips that are positioned on the stage. Source for the demo above: Download