Recently I was working a flash base d site with a lot of user driven content. Basically users could upload their photos, manipulate them, and then send the result as a url to their frieds. One feature of the site was also ability to share the content they created on major social networking sites.

The solution to this multipage flash site and its sharing was the use of excellent SWFAddress code. There is good documentation going with the code and a few tutorials out there that implement SWFAddress to PureMVC sites. However, most of them define notifications connected to a change of url address in the ApplicationFacade singleton.

In this short article I am introducing an alternative way of implementation of the SWFAddress code into PureMVC framework.

What got me first interested in ANT was not so much flash compiling as ability to completely engineer the html page containing the flash. Of course since then, I found the other advantages of compiling a project with ant. It is a really great tool for development.

The place for me to start was naturally documentation and a great article at adobe site.

During the Christmas break, I had an idea of how it would be useful to use papervision3d for advertising purposes. I must have been prompted by a lack of information on online shops. Since I do a lot of shopping online, I thought it would be great to have some really nice description of a product shown in 3D. So I thought I would apply my knowledge of papervision and Cinema4D.

Here is a mockup of a banner, that could be served by an ad server.

Since I am not really skilled in Cinema4D, the model a bit chunky but it will work for purposes of this blog/tutorial.

The code can be downloaded here

iPhone model in Flash

Lately, we had an interesting discussion with a guy from Google about Rich media banners. Quite often these banners have only simple click through interaction. Occasionally however, there are banners which offer a user a bit more without the need to leave the host page. This tutorial will be about a simple Rich Media banner that allows user to have multiple options and decide on one in the end.

Since, most of the sites still require Flash Player 8 or earlier for banner advertising, this tutorial will be in as2.

Google Studio Component

This tutorial is about creating xml driven menu in actionscript 3. The topics covered here will be how to access xml files from actionscript, and how to load images accoring to that xml. The mockup of the menu is shown on following picture:

xmlDrivenMenu