You can find the installation instructions from the Brighton, UK Flash user group at: http://www.flashbrighton.org/wordpress/?p=16
DJ
Archive for May, 2007
Check this link where I got from the blog.lessrain.com site.
Click here.
It’s not the first time that my daughter asked me to play a game that I had made. It’s very special.
DJ
There’s been a buzz at my company to try to develop a Flash based Wii game. Well, first of all, getting a Wii is an extremely difficult task to get in Montreal when they only distribute 8 Wiis per Best buy store at a time. It’s getting riddiculous that you cannot buy a Wii since last November!
In the meantime there is a group of Flash developers wanting to work on using Flash on a Wii. The Opera browser is shipped with a Wii by which, I believe runs the Flash 7 player. It’s really cool! Click on the link below.
I believe that the Essential ActionScript series is THE book in regards to learning ActionScript Programming. Now Mike Downey interviews Colin Moock on AS3 Essentials. As of now, it is in rough cuts at O’Reilly.com. Colin takes a new approach to writing this book by describing what code is and what a programmer is and moves on to Object Oriented Programming. It’s launch date is June 1st.
For the video click here.
For AS3 Essentials rough cuts click here.
DJ
In my previous blog, I was looking for the means of finding the most adequate way of loading fonts through run time libraries in the most efficient manner. It was practically impossible to figure out how to preload runtime libraries via flash. Although, I had an idea of loading other swfs that point to runtime libraries that seem to work out so that I can launch an event handler on the second frame to say that the font loading process was complete, lo and behold that there was another developer who already got into it and points to a far better implementation of this ever-elusive topic for using runtime font libraries for localization. Enter http://www.flashextensions.com by Robert Taylor. (I am not sure if there are other presenters.) He gave a presentation at last years Flash forward conference regarding localization. Check out the pdf doc he prepared. (Click here.)
And while I was going through the tutorials, I thought that this was just what I needed about advanced Actionscripting. I really recommend this site for advanced Actionscript development. Getting the videos and source code is minimal for about $25 for a month, which is plenty of time if you are dedicated to go through them. It will save a lot of headaches banging your head against the keyboard!
-DJ