armen abrahamyan

as3 Scaling Image Gallery

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:11:39 +0000

I remember ~5-6 years ago when I decide to make my first flash components using actionscript only, scaling image slideshow was one of them. I got lots of feedback, comments and after that I start my freelance flash development carrier. In fact, the slideshows, galleries are the flash elements that I'm using almost in all flash projects/websites, [...]

New toy: macBook pro

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:15:38 +0000

It have been like one month since I got my new toy ... macBook pro 15 inch 2.8 GHZ laptop. I just love it since first day of use, its fast, sexy and it works fine. But not for flash development which is my primary job all time. The only software that I can't work without [...]

as3 remove duplicated childs

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:48:22 +0000

There are several ways of doing the same thing, the result is the same, I was wandering if there is more efficient way to do this. Lets say you have xml that looks like: PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: var videoXML:XML = <videos> <video title="title 1"> [...]

Changed blog theme to K2

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:33:06 +0000

Just changed my blog theme to K2, I like the simple and clean look, need to change couple of settings later during the weekend. More Posts ToolTip In AS3 New toy: macBook pro Tile background in AS3 Easing preloader as3 AS3 CursorManager

AS3 Simulating cue points for Sound

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:02:46 +0000

update: pause() method is added, example .fla file is updated. As far as I know there is no way for adding cue points in flash Sound, but using SoundChannel.position property we can check playhead current position and simulate cue points for Sound. So I wrote simple utility Class for simulating cue points for Sound Class In AS3. Example: CursorManager.as PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: package com.abrahamyan.util { import flash.display.DisplayObject; import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer; import flash.display.InteractiveObject; import flash.display.Stage; [...]

Easing preloader as3

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:46:01 +0000

Here is the example of easing, reusable preloader that I am using in some of my projects. The general idea is to tween the loader bar to the next point instead of just jumping to it. The easiest way to achieve that effect is using one of the tweening libraries. My favorite one is Tweenlite, which [...]

Tile background in AS3

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:30:57 +0000

Update Because of for dual screen Capabilities.screenResolutionX returns only size of main screen, setSize method is added in class. You should set width and height in setBitmap and loadBitmap methods as well. source files are updated. Here is the simple class file that allows to set tile background in flash. Background can be set from both flash IDE library (linkage) [...]

ToolTip In AS3

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:37:06 +0000

Here is the way I made Tooltip for my flash projects. It's class attached to library symbol, in order to change skin you have to just modify movieclip in library. Background contains guides for 9 slice scaling. It changes also direction automatically based on stage width and height if its near borders. Here is the example of using [...]

What I’m reading

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:10:01 +0000

I got my books week ago, mostly reading these days. Programming Flex 3 Essential ActionScript 3.0 AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation Mostly excited to read Keith Peters Book, but its hard to read all of them together More Posts ToolTip In AS3 New toy: macBook pro Tile background in AS3 Easing preloader as3 AS3 CursorManager