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Flash Player 10 API online no zip file

Thanks to Alex Bustin. He decided to take the bandwidth hit and upload the Flash Player 10 API to his site.

No you don’t have to download it. Also, Matt Chotin said that some new properties do not code complete currently, so don’t think you did something wrong. It’s Adobe not you.

Add comment May 22nd, 2008

How to compile and examples for Flash Player 10 or ASTRO BETA

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!

1 comment May 16th, 2008

Josh’s Diarrheatic Blog is becoming a flash playground for me

If anyone still has a subscription to my feed, I’m going to talk only about Flash and Flash related content. I learned I can’t talk about comedy on the internet…it could end a career. There is nothing I can say that won’t be judged. Stay tuned!

1 comment March 10th, 2007

Compile Flex 2.0 w/ Dreamweaver and SDK w/ code complete

A much need tutorial on how to easily publish flex swf. He tells it step by step. Pretty easy.. By the way when he says put “mxml” in the document type put it in the xml part.

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Add comment August 5th, 2006

Programming Is Like Sex

A couple dozen similarities between the two most enjoyable practices on earth.
This is very true

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Add comment July 9th, 2006