July 25th, 2009
Recently I’ve been looking at the APIs of a couple of websites, Twitter and Flickr. This post will be focusing on flickr, and the little app that I created using Actionscript 3 and the Flickr API.
The Flickr API really makes it easy to access all of the images on the site, and all of the information that it stores about them, using a series of http requests for everything from searching to obtaining geotag information. There are a number of API kits available, but the base Flickr API is so simple that on a small project such as this one it was just as easy to use as it would have been to learn to use one of the kits.
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Tags: Actionscript, API, AS3, Flash, Flickr, OOP
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July 21st, 2009
Every once in a while, a few friends come round to the flat to play board games, the standard game being Settler’s of Catan. Most of us being geeks, at some point in the evening someone usually mentions an idea for a way to integrate some sort of technology into the proceedings, such as a glass topped board game table with LED strips for roads. This is what prompted the following project.
As an exercise in OOP in AS3, I decided to try and recreate the game in flash. This is the first step, the random board generation. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Actionscript, AS3, Board Game, Catan, Flash, Game, OOP, Toy, WIP
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July 20th, 2009
Recently I was going back through some past projects and experiments, and I came across a particle system I had played with when making the jump from AS2 to AS3. I ended up digging into the code and fiddling with it – a bit here, a bit there – until some kind of weird game/toy emerged.
Basically, your goal is to match the colour of the particles emerging from your mouse to the colour of the background in the center. You do this by adding or subtracting red, green, and blue from the colour of the particles, mousing over the colours in the left column to add them, and in the right column to subtract them. When one of the individual colours gets close to being the right value, the respective blobs will start to pulse. Match the colour to gain a point, and the target colour will change. You have until the target colour disappears to match as many as you can. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Actionscript, ARGB, AS3, Color, Flash, Game, Hexadecimal, OOP, Particles, Toy
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July 19th, 2009
One flash project that I’ve been working on recently is a dynamic image carousel for a website header. All was going well – the carousel was loading external images, spinning correctly, and could be interacted with via the mouse pointer. The header called for the carousel to load off screen and move up into view once the load was complete. No problem, a simple tween should do it…
The Problem
At first that was fine, the carousel loaded and tweened as expected, but after making a few changes to other parts of the header and testing a few more times, the tween stopped short leaving the carousel half visible and half off screen. The irritating thing was that it was seemingly random. Sometimes it would make it all the way, sometimes it would get part way and stop, and occasionally it would appear not to move at all.
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Tags: Actionscript, AS3, Classes, Flash, Tweener, Tweens
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July 10th, 2009
Hello! You’ve found the EddyB.co.uk blog! This is where I’ll be posting works in progress, design experiments, flash doohickeys and other stuff I think you might find interesting. Let’s get off to an ambitious start by creating some life…
I’ve had some experience in the past with creating and experimenting with cellular simulations, so I decided to recreate John Conway’s Game of Life using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. I created a couple of classes for this project -a cell class specifically created for this simulation (and only this simulation – it’s very specifically customised), and a custom button class for general use in other projects.
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Tags: Actionscript, AS3, Conway, Flash, Game, Game of Life, John Conway, Simulation
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