Digizex Video Tutorial - Basic Structure of a Flash Web Site - CS3/AS3 - SEO,CMS,Multilingual,MVC · 436 days ago by Pickle
The ultimate tutorial on how to create a content-managed, multilingual Flash website using Flash CS3 and opensource tools: FlashDevelop, Digizex, SWFAddress, SWFObject, Zend, Zend AMF, MySQL, XAMPP, PureMVC, Fabrication, Flight Framework Data Binding, BumpSlide UI Library, Demonster Debugger, KapInspect, Flex 3 SDK, Digitalus CMS, Minimal Remoting (AMF library for AS3), AllFlashWebsite’s FlashDevelop Project Templates. There are 8 videos totaling one hour.
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FlashDevelop Fabrication Templates and Video Tutorial · 448 days ago by Pickle
These FlashDevelop templates will help you setup the folder and file structure of your Fabrication for PureMVC project. If you’re not using FlashDevelop, it’s actually pretty easy to convert these template files to the development environment of your choice (just open them in a text editor).
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The Digizex Debugger for Flash and Flex: Drop-in KapInspect and De MonsterDebugger without Breaking a Sweat [AS3] · 471 days ago by Pickle
If you like De MonsterDebugger or KapInspect, you’re gonna love this. This is a stripped-down version of Digizex that includes only the debugging features, and none of the Content Management Stuff. The only requirement is that you have De MonsterDebugger AIR app installed on your system. The initialization code is dead simple…
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Digizex Video Tutorial: Installation and Basic Features · 475 days ago by Pickle
Digizex has been refactored to use the Fabrication framework, and a slew of new features has been added, including integration with KapInspect. This tutorial walks you through installing Digizex on a personal web server.
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Pushing HydroSequence · 485 days ago by Pickle
I recently added my edits/fixes to HydroSequence.as (of HydroTween) in the google repository. I changed only a few lines of code which results in a much more powerful class. HydroSequence extends GoASAP’s SequenceCA class. You would think that this means you could use HydroSequence just like you had been able to use SequenceCA, with the additional features that HydroSequence adds. Well, this wasn’t the case, but now it is. Before, HydroSequence instantiated it’s own SequenceCA instance, now it just references itself.
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Introducing Digizex: Open Source CMS for Flash and Flex [AS3] · 495 days ago by Pickle
For a while now, I’ve felt that the Flash/Flex community needed a good, open source, CMS. Having spent some time developing and working with my Textpattern-based solution, I came to the realization that Flash websites need a Flash-centric solution, (as opposed to an HTML-centric, like Textpattern). Well, actually, Flash websites need both: a Flash-based solution for flash-enabled browsers, and an HTML-based solution for mobile and other non-flash-enabled browsers. I know, it sounds like a pretty tall order, but with all the open source goodies out there I was actually able to whip this up in about two weeks.
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InitMonitor v.0.5.1 for PureMVC [AS3] · 499 days ago by Pickle
This new release is much different from the last one, although the general idea is the same. Unfortunately i still have not found the time to put together any decent examples, so you’ll have to read the API documentation and/or read the source code to learn to use it.
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PureMVC Port of Keith Craigo's Flex + Zend_Amf + Zend_Auth + Zend_Acl + Zend_Session · 510 days ago by Pickle
This is an advanced topic made simple by Keith Craigo. His original demo used the Cairngorm MVC framework to demonstrate a Flex Login form interacting with Zend_AMF with authentication, access control, and session id’s.
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Running Ant From FlashDevelop 3 · 529 days ago by Pickle
Kieth Peters figured this out over a year ago. However, follow his directions for the latest version of FlashDevelop (version 3, RC2) and you might run into some trouble. I’ll make this really easy for y’all…
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New Pre-Release SubMicroSite Launched to Destroy Old Site · 544 days ago by Pickle
There’s a bit of a story behind it, but the short of it is that I had to close down my Restaurant/Bar (The Hookah Cafe). Soo, while we’re relocating the concept, I decided to take a sledge hammer to the old website. To help make sense of it, I should tell you that the Hookah Cafe was the second in a line of successful concepts. The first incarnation of the Hookah Cafe (closed when version 2.0 opened) was a much smaller lounge/coffee shop started by my brothers. In keeping with tradition, the third version will be freaking awesome but different than the first two.
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Seamlessly Combining 2D and 3D in Flash with Planes, Part 3 [AS3] · 599 days ago by Pickle
It’s been quite some time since I published parts 1 and 2 of this series, which turned out to be some of the most popular articles on this website. In part 1, I presented some ideas (and math) which either confused you or made a lot of sense to you if you happen to think and learn like I do. In part 2, I wrapped up the concepts into a class (called BasicViewPlus) to help you do the stuff I was talking about without actually thinking about it too hard. In the four months since I published part 2, I have continued to work with and improve BasicViewPlus. At this point, I think it is pretty solid, but I would still consider it beta until more people have tested it.
Since posting part 1, I’ve been promising to post a demo of using BasicViewPlus, and now I’m finally making good on that promise. The purpose of this demo is to illustrate how BasicViewPlus can be used to create an interface that feels interactive, by seamlessly transitioning between 2D and 3D. The following displays a bunch of Flickr photos (by searching for Cloth) in a 2D Grid component, when you click and drag a photo it should feel like you are dragging a piece of cloth…
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InitMonitor v.0.3: Not Just Another PureMVC Initialization Manager [AS3] · 604 days ago by Pickle
The initial release of InitMonitor was described as a minimalist initialization manager. After using it for a little while I decided I wanted something more robust and full featured. So instead of reinventing the wheel I thought to use the official PureMVC StartupManager and bundled Asset Loader. After working for a while on converting an existing project to this paradigm I came to the realization that these were not the tools for the job.
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MinimalRemoting: Simple Remoting Class without the Bells and Whistles [AS3] · 605 days ago by Pickle
Mostly based on two other public projects, this class distills AMF remoting in AS3 down to a class that extends EventDispatcher. Code was ripped from Josh Strike’s remoting package and also from ProDevTips.
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Papervision3D: Camera Orbiting Done 3 Ways - AutoOrbit [AS3] · 616 days ago by Pickle
In an attempt to come up with the perfect camera orbit, I’ve created these three classes. The goal was for them to be easy to use, add minimal overhead, and provide some useful options…
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New AFW/PV3D Microsite Launched · 618 days ago by Pickle
Whipped this up in about a week. Although it is a microsite, it has a full AS3 PureMVC + AFW Template implementation. If you’ve read about the AFW Template you know this means a content-managed, search-engine optimized, swirly whirly SWFAddress-ified, etc. website.
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