Posts Tagged Flash

Flash Camp Boston

Posted by Jerlyn in General on February 28, 2010

Hopefully, @asciibn and I can road trip to Boston for Flash Camp Boston. I just registered for it here. It’s FREE so I don’t see why anyone won’t go for free pizza and beer… and code? (You know how code is tertiary to Pizza and Beer ). Hope to see you all there! Let me know if you are. @Jerlyn

Flash, Flash Camp Boston

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22 secs of me on Ice

Posted by Jerlyn in My Life in NYC on January 18, 2010

- Hey, I can blade but ice skating wasn’t made for tropical people . I had fun, this was my 4th time on the ice (and I only fell twice out of those 4 times I’ve been on so I’m kind of proud)! It was quite a workout.

I have no excuse for not writing a post however here are a few updates:

I wrote two tutorials for cookbooks.adobe.com this past weekend (I’m now one of their Top Chefs /Editor/Moderator ). Thanks to Russ Ferguson for nagging me to write something and Ed Sullivan for choosing me. Here’s my profile on Adobe.com

Don’t you love Flash?

Adobe, cookbooks, Flash, ice skating

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Tracing to a textfield on stage with AS3

Posted by Jerlyn in Tutorials on December 15, 2009

You can download the example here: tracer

You can see trace statements in the output window within Flash. You can also use a debugger for this however what if you can’t install them or have no access to get them?

Here’s an option… tracing on stage. Create a text field and trace to the stage. I hope this is a good alternative to people who wouldn’t want to install anything else.

I may place this on the stage in an area that doesn’t interfere with the movie just to make sure the functions are being called.

I called the movieClip traceField.

within my function along with my trace statement:

trace("Tracing init function)";

I also added

traceField.text = "Tracing init function to stage";

That’s it. Seems to make my workflow easier.

stop();
init();
function init():void{
        //Call trace statements
        trace ("Init function has been called");
        traceField.text = "Init function has been called";

        var cbtn:MovieClip = new clickbtn();
        cbtn.x = 140;
        cbtn.y = 140;
        addChild(cbtn);
        cbtn.buttonMode = true;
        cbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClick);
        cbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, btnRollOver);
        cbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, btnRollOut);
}
function btnClick(e:MouseEvent):void{

        //Call trace statements
        trace("Button has been Clicked");
        traceField.text = "Button has been Clicked";

}

function btnRollOver(e:MouseEvent):void{
       //Call trace statements
        trace("Button rolled over");
        traceField.text = "Button rolled over";

}

function btnRollOut(e:MouseEvent):void{
       //Call trace statements
        trace("Button rolled out");
        traceField.text = "Button rolled out";

}

As3, Flash, textfield, tracer

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Day 2 in L. A., Monday Session at AdobeMax

Posted by Jerlyn in General on October 10, 2009

Having this 3 days in a row = not so good but it’s free hotel breakfast but this is what we had every day.

DAY 1 – Conference Day…

It’s only the first day and I’m seeing the most amazingly innovative things!

The design of the conference (by the way) was put together by a company I’m familiar with and Rachel works for: AKQA.

Congratulations guys! It looked amazing! Red Interactive (you know how amazing their work is!) was also involved.

We ventured out to the first General Session.

They said to use the crosswalk but Shweta ignores…

Before entering the building, we had to go through some sort of CUSTOMS like airport security. I saw a girl with a cool hat, I asked to take her photo.

Then while seated, we took in everything…

First off, I finally got to see who makes ADOBE what it is. I met some great guys from @deMonsters. Their business cards are so creative! Erik van de Wiel, Ferdi Koomen & Paul Reijnierse deMonsters…

I placed their stickers on my laptop and they posted it on their blog . Here’s the pic [link to their post]

The general session actually opened up with youths who work with Adobe + Black Eyed Peas.

They did a singing/choreographed session with some design which was pretty cool! Followed by Shantanu Narayen, President & CEO of Adobe.

Followed by Kevin Lynch, Chief Technology Officer.

It was also announced that the founders of Adobe was appointed the 2009 National Medal of Technology & Innovation by President Barack Obama.

So many amazing things were announced, such as where Flash is going… especially in Flash 10.1 I got some stats of how long the phone lasts with motion:
Active State of Video lasts 3.4 hours
Active State of Animation lasts 6.5 hours
Low power with animations lasts 14.5 hours…

Isn’t that amazing?

Here are some more videos:

I posted some more on my facebook page.

Another:

Then all of a sudden, there was a spoof of mythbusters with Adobe MythHackers…staring Kevin Lynch and Johnny Loiacono.

Adobe went into some more details about Omniture but sadly the speaker wasn’t very entertaining and people started tweeting negatively. I felt terrible for not being interested either . HOWEVER, the merge of Adobe + Omniture = AMAZING. Having tracking in one software/company/provider makes our lives as online advertisers easier I think.

We got sneaked peak never before seen clips of AVATAR which were superb!! I will be watching this the night it comes out! What’s so great about this movie: It’s in 3D (they gave us 3D glasses), It uses all Adobe software, & it appears to have a great storyline… I love Sci-fi though, so I might be bias.

After this session.. I went to Student Work and Curricular Design at RIT. As some of you know, I attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and I am extremely elated when I see the amazingly innovative things that come from that school… They started a new major there for Interactive Games and Media (Why wasn’t this there when I attended! I’d so do that!)

This is Andrew Phelps explaining about some of the Academic/Industry Partnership with their program.

This session was mostly to show how Adobe products were used and the students worked in teams to discover new technologies. Interactive Games and Media Department at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The products used in here were Flex, Flash, Director, and Photoshop.

My next session was called Creative Suite 4 Evangelists’s Shootout.

They showed some really nifty tricks in inDesign, Bridge, etc. The speakers were: Paul Burnett, Rufus Deuchler & Jason Levine. I was excited to finally meet Rufus since he followed me on twitter after I couldn’t find my Adobe Design Premium Package.

The object of this session was to outdo each other. However, I loved all the tips that they presented.

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My next session was From Big Screen to Browser, Desktop, and Mobile Device with Adobe Flash CS4.

The speakers were Jesse Resnick, Evan DeHaven & Jeff Lin.

They demoed entertainment brands that used Flash CS4. One of the companies, The Visionaire Group used this for Universal’s Fast & Furious 4 (HOT!). (The only thing I didn’t like about the Fast and Furious Campaign is that they had an entire campaign that tried to get to the male demographic but I wish they did something for women who were really into vin diesel’s hotness! Anyway…)

Another, Ignition Interactive explained how they used it for Disney/Pixar movie UP. Etc etc… everything was simply amazing. Here’s some eye candy:

Finally, I had Advanced AfterEffects Workflows for Flash Professional

It was interesting seeing how easy it was to integrate workflows from AfterEffects into Flash interchangeably. He showed how to turn keyframes into cuepoints to be used in Flash. I loved that this feature was demoed again because I had forgotten all about using it I love After Effects.

Immediately after this session, we went off to mingle with others in the Community Lounge.

I stayed and spoke to some people. I also met with my favorite Evangelist again, Rufus.

David Blaine also made an appearance.

Then I met up with Anissa | @anissat

We checked out some Max Awards, we really liked All Girls Arcade.

Anissa’s a very talented lady who introduced me to some other folks such as Stefanie Sullivan from (W3Conversions.com).

After mingling, I went off to meet others … called it a night somewhere after that!

Adobe, AdobeMAX, After Effects, Avatar, Conferences, CS4, design, Flash, Jerlyn, RIT, Shweta

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FEED ME: 15+ Flash Links + RSS

Posted by Jerlyn in FEED ME, General on April 13, 2009

Feed Me will be a list of resources that are RSS feed worthy that i came across and I’m browsing or already are on my RSS Reader.
This post will be for FLASH/FLEX users. Currently I’m coding in AS3 however, if I found AS2 I was happy to included. This is in no particular order.

ActionScript 3 Design Patterns
OOP Techniques for Flash and Flex Developers
Continues from the book “ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns published by O’Reilly Media.” | RSS

Adobe Devnet
Nothing’s better than the software company’s site itself. | RSS

GoToAndLearn
A past favorite of mine. | RSS

There’s also The Flash Blog | RSS

Big Space Ship| | RSS

Grant Skinner (One of the best!) | RSS

Colin Moock (I got the chance to have a drink with him in my senior year with my team for Senior Project he seems like an all-around great guy) | RSS

Justin Everett Church | RSS

BIT-101 Blog | RSS Keith Peters