by Daniel | May 10, 2012 | News
Well it has been over a year since my last post, and in that time a great deal has changed. I moved countries, changed jobs, had a baby boy and bought a house!
Also during the last year my work focus has broadened away from being a Flash and ActionScript specialist. As Digital Director of a local agency I now manage all web projects covering a broad range of technology. This means that the posts I’ve been inspired to write are not really relevant to the existing content of this blog: “ActionScript Scraps”. I have decided to continue blogging here, but will change the tone of the blog with new posts.
From now on I hope to be blogging on a wider variety of topics including all web technologies. Going along with this change I feel it is time for a design refresh which will be happening over the next few weeks.
by Daniel | Apr 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
I recently came across this problem with a small AR project I was working on. Sometimes the webcam would work, but other times the SWF would seem to freeze when the Webcam Flash Player Settings window would come up. I could still “tab” around the settings window but I couldn’t select the “Allow” button to enable my webcam. This was pretty frustrating until I came across this helpful post on stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3003724/cant-click-allow-button-in-flash-on-firefox
It seems that it is a bug within the Flash Player Settings that occurs when the window width isn’t a whole pixel, and the CSS for the window is set to margin auto. With a bit of javascript trickery you can make sure that you won’t have this problem again.
by Daniel | Jan 17, 2011 | actionscript
This project was another fantastic visualisation for David McCandless of informationisbeautiful.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
It is the second visualisation we have worked on, and it was even more fun than the first.
The data is coming in live (as a CSV) from a Google Docs Spreadsheet http://bit.ly/tonsofcarbon.
The application is built in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 and the PureMVC framework, with SWFAddress and a small amount of XML.
You can read more about this project on David’s great blog here:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/how-much-carbon/
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