SWF It Good

Update 10/23/2008

So a bit has changed w/ Flash Player 10 Public Release, I found out that the dynamic sound event changed, again, so I had to make some changes.

Flash Player 10 Public Release Needed

Here is the piano. Once I can build it w/ Air I’ll make it into simple app. I would suggest downloading the swf and running it in your standalone flash player. The keyboard is huge.

I have a couple of ideas to to advance this keyboard:

1. Decoupling functionality
2. recording of sound
3. sustain pedal
4. pitch ben
5. modulation
6. get out an alpha version of the code.

If you have some ideas I’d love to hear them. Please leave me a comment.

As many of you know ASTRO is in Public beta.

Download browser plugin

Here are some links on how to compile:

Text instruction – by Mike Chanmbers

Video Instruction – by Lee Brimelow

Flash Magizine Article

A promising sound example:

flash produced sound example – by Keith Peters

Here is my “3D” example, quick and dirty:

[as]

package {
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.geom.Vector3D;
import flash.net.URLRequest;

public class ASTRO extends Sprite
{

private var _loader:Loader;
private var mc:MovieClip;
public function ASTRO()
{

stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.EXACT_FIT;
_loader = new Loader()
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete, false, 0, true);
_loader.load(new URLRequest(“record.gif”));

}

private function loadComplete(evt:Event):void
{

mc = new MovieClip();
mc.rotationY = 0;
mc.rotationZ = 0;

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove, false, 0, true);
mc.opaqueBackground = true;
_loader.x = – (_loader.width * 0.5);
_loader.y = – (_loader.height * 0.5);
mc.addChild(_loader);
mc.x = (_loader.width * 0.5);
mc.y = (_loader.height * 0.5);
addChild(mc);

}

private function onMove(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
mc.rotationZ = stage.mouseY;
mc.rotationX = stage.mouseX

}
}
}
[/as]

Also here are some classes that I saw through code completion. I don’t really know what to do with them yet. Maybe someone else will and will let me know (I have too much work and GTAing to do ).

• flash.text.engine Package (over a dozen classes)
• __AS3__.vec.Vector (that is wierd)
• flash.display.GraphicsBitmapFill
• flash.display.GraphicsPathCommand
• flash.display.TriangleCulling (that sounds interesting)
• flash.geom.Vector3D
• flash.filters.ShaderFilter

Happy Coding!