Archive for February, 2009

Flash Camp London

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

13.30 - 14.00 Keynote
Serge Jespers (Adobe)

14.00 - 14.30 Work / Play
Seb Lee-Delisle (Plugin Media / PV3D)

15.45 - 16.30 Scripting with AS3
Mike Chambers (Adobe)

16.30 - 17.00 Spore Microsite
Richard Dean (Creative Lead - Lightmaker)

17.00 - 17.30 Custom Chrome in AIR
James Whittaker (Front-end technical architect / Adobe Community Expert)

18.15 - 19.00 Flash CS4
Lee Brimlow (Adobe)

19.00 - 19.45 Flex workflows in CS4
Serge Jespers (Adobe)

Unity3D

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I keep on forgetting about this awesome 3D engine. It’s cross platform and cross browser! You can install the Unity3D plug-in without even needing to restart the browser.

The quality is just amazing!

Links:

Strictly typed data transfer?

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Have a look at “Building SOAP Clients with Flex Builder 3” by Zee Yang.

Don’t know how much different this is from using Adobe’s WebService class though…

Custom graphic for Google maps polyline

Friday, February 6th, 2009

I’ve been looking into the question wether or not it is possible to use a custom graphic for polylines (and/or polygons) in Google Maps. The result so far is very promissing and the answer is yes!

Click to launch

NOTE: right click and save as.. then run, as the gmaps API key used is not for this domain.

The feet are taken from a MovieClip and repeated for the length of the line.

I’ve achieved this by implementing the IPolyLine and IOverLay Interface. It took quite some figuring out to determine what each function was meant to do.

TBC…

TODO:

  1. Multi point line
  2. Exact line fill
  3. Flag for toggling image stretching / repeating
  4. Fixing a bug with Event dispatching