Inspiration: Big & Small
I saw this on John Lindquist’s blog about Big & Small, a cartoon in the UK for which Plug-in Media made the site. The site is fantastic and all done in Papervision3D. There is tons of things to explore and its just very well done. You can see a bit about the project on Seb Lee-Delisle’s blog.
Tip: Calculating Correct FullScreen Values
So the project I’m currently working on includes all types of video players and one of the options (as is normal these days) is going to fullScreen mode. Normally you would use the Capabilities class to grab the screenResolutionX and screenResolutionY values in your code and react to it with whatever code you needed to (at least that was what I have historically done). I run a 24″ Dell widescreen monitor connected to my 15″ Macbook Pro. The Dell is my primary monitor and I use the MBP monitor as a secondary monitor for panels and such. When I go into fullScreen mode on my Dell (primary monitor), everything works fine. However, if I then go into fullScreen mode on my MBP by moving my browser over and testing that, the screen enlarges to the size it once was on my 24″ Dell. As you can see, this poses a big problem because you can’t see anything under a certain amount of pixels (in my case, half the video and my controls). But there is a very simple solution to this madness.
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Tip: Testing For NaN
I was working on a project today and I was getting NaN as a return value for a trace up until a certain point in time. I figured that a quick check in an if/else statement would solve my issue but I was wrong. Here I will outline what I initially did and the quick and easy fix for it.
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AS2/AS3: ThunderBolt
In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel, I’ll just post what ThunderBolt is directly ripping the Google Code page:
ThunderBolt is a lightweight logger extension for ActionScript 2 and 3 applications using Firebug.
Basically, ThunderBolt is a way to trace stuff out to Firebug’s console (similar to FlashTracer). Pretty sweet!
ActionScript Error Repository
The ActionScript Error Repository is a neat little site that lets you search for AS errors based on their error codes. It’s a pretty handy little tool to see what error you are getting (sometimes they end up being pretty cryptic) and seeing what a possible solution may be. It’s definitely worth bookmarking.
Best Source Code Comments
This isn’t directly related to Flash but programming in general. Stack Overflow has a post about encountering the best comments in source code. These are pretty classic.
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Have you ever wanted to contribute some knowledge/info to the community but didn’t want to bother with starting your own blog? You didn’t want to start from scratch and wanted an already established place to convey your ideas? Then this may be exactly what you are looking for. Read on for more info.
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Inspiration: Puma Lift
I’m a little late to the table with this one as well but Firstborn won its 40th FWA with the new Puma Lift site. The intro is pretty awesome (I know, it’s video, but still awesome) and as usual with FB’s sites its really well done and super fluid. Congrats on the FWA total.
Inspiration: Benjamin Moore | ben
A neat little site from AKQA for the new Benjamin Moore paints, ben. I like how clean the site is and just the overall feel/motion of it just feels “right”.
Inspiration: Days With My Father
I’ve been super busy lately on a project I’m working on that has taken up way more time of mine than I had hoped so I apologize for not posting much up lately. I’ve taken little steps here and there to stay sane and one of them is visiting this site, Days With My Father, by Phillip Toledano. It doesn’t really have much to do with Flash development other than being done in Flash. There is nothing crazy about it; just the message it portrays. The inspiration lies in what the site is about. It’s a great site and made me rather emotional as I’m sure its done to many others. Enjoy it.
