Ordinary Superhero

I posted a link to Matrix Ping Pong a while ago, but that link is dead, so I’m posting this one which will hopefully survive a bit longer. The matrix pinngpong seems to be one of the most popular search terms within the blog so I thought I [...]

I recently started work at a web development copany, and we’ve just released our Christmas eCard, Save Our Snowmen! It’s been pretty popular. It’s a game and it’s been great fun working on our own stuff rather than having to stick to client requirements. Have a go, and if you have any comments, [...]

Finally, a Flash post.

Am I the first to blog it?? The Flash Remoting components for Flash MX 2004 have been released, and I haven’t read about it elsewhere, so . . . I think I win!

you can download [...]

This was supposed to be a flash blog, honest. Anyway, Macromedia have released Studio MX 2004. It has new versions of Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Freehand (an update rather than a full version) and Flash. Flash has split into two versions – Professional and standard. Professional is basically standard with bells on – [...]

Sometimes the default colouring of Flash MX components can be a bit ugly. But Unless I want to skin them all myself physically, or work out complex colour groups (which always look hideous) I just have to leave them alone. That was until I found the FStyleFormat extension” href=”http://www.illogicz.com/blog/000042.php#comments”>illogicz.com > FStyleFormat extension. [...]

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I’ve recently been working on a dynamic scrollbar. one that loads a series of images and can scrol them up and down. The problem I was having was that the “button” movieclips were nested in a “scroller” movieclip, but only the scroller clip would capture mouse actions. I couldn’t assign mouse actions to [...]

I was asked about another effect in Flash, and this was what I came up with:

button_params = new Array();
button_params[1] = {offtext:”Menu Point One”, touchText:”go.”};
button_params[2] = {offtext:”Menu Point Two”, touchText:”go.”};
button_params[3] = {offtext:”Menu Point Three”, touchText:”go.”};
button_params[4] = {offtext:”Menu Point Four”, touchText:”go.”};
var max = button_params.length-1;

Movieclip.prototype.rollOut = function(){
this._parent["field"+this.id].text = “”
this.targetText = this._parent.button_params[this.id].offText
this.counter = 0;
this.onEnterFrame = [...]

I enjoy visiting experiment sites. like Natzke.com. I saw this one linked to today by Zeldman. It’s very cool, so check [...]

I’ve been really bad about posting, so I’m going to try to be better organised and post more flash stuff. Someone at work was working on an interface like this:

I’m not sure what the point was, but I put this together as a sample. I particularly like the fact that the movement eases in [...]