Posts Tagged ‘flash’

I recently finished a website design for Eagle Jewelry (http://www.eaglejewelrysf.com) that has some very nice movement and animation all done jQuery.  With the No Flash on the Apple iPads many of the flash sites are just nice big blank screens on the iPad.  The alternative text on most flash sites is a link to download and install Flash but with no support on an iPad you don’t even see that message since it isn’t an alternative.

Eagle Jewelry on the iPad

I personally don’t own an iPad but there is a handy little tool out there to check a website on an iPad screen called iPadPeek.  Just type in the URL and you can see your website (see screenshot).

I’m still learning jQuery but it is a really nice alternative.  I have to look forward to learning HTML5 soon for some of the same reasons but for now this worked out fine.

For some reason I always have a little bit of a mental block on controlling sounds in Flash.  So I’m posting so I can find it myself.

I had this issue with a client website.  There is an intro that automatically plays and a “skip intro” button that should stop the sound of the intro.  There may be a better way but this worked for me.

When you have sound in AS3 from an external source that doesn’t have media controls you may need a button for a mute/unmute.  Here is some basic code to start your buttons.

//playBtn and pauseBtn are two basic buttons
playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playSound);
pauseBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, pauseSound);

function playSound(event:MouseEvent):void{
SoundMixer.soundTransform = new SoundTransform(1); //This will unmute all sound from SWF.
}
function pauseSound(event:MouseEvent):void{

SoundMixer.soundTransform = new SoundTransform(0); //This will mute all sound from SWF.
}

You can add a SoundMixer.stopAll(); to buttons leaving the frame/movie if you want to stop all the sounds completely.

This is on my “to do” list.  I have a few projects that I could use this on.

AS3 Flash Physics Engine Box2DFlashAS3 2.0.1.

For DLU Vodka I created an animated flash banner for placement of various partner websites.  The banner was designed with consistent branding and sticking with the “gemstone” theme.

See the banner in action on the Rich Kid Academy Website.

Designing my own marketing materials usually falls back seat to the designs for my clients.  But it is nice, because once I get it done…it’s DONE.  (Well, until I decide to play around with the design again).