Inspiring Inspiration #10
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
January 30, 2013
Uploading video from iPad to server with AIR for iOS
In this part 2 post following on from Record and play back video with AIR for iOS on iPad I will show you how to take your freshly recorded video and upload it to a web server using PHP. Assuming you have a MovieClip or some other button labeled ‘uploadbtn’ you first need to add […]
January 24, 2013
Virtual Graffiti Wall on Today in the US
Recently the Virtual Graffiti Wall application (formerly Pixel Perfect) I built for Classy Event Group was featured on the morning show Today in the US. Check out the 2 minute segment in the below video. The app is built on Adobe AIR and is multi-user/multi-touch enabled. Features include: The system is available for rental world […]
January 23, 2013
AS3 – Split a camel case string
This is a little helper function which takes a string in camel case (camelCase) or pascal case (PascalCase) and splits it into separate words. The capitaliseFirst parameter will capitalise the first character in the first word if the string is in camel case.
January 19, 2013
Record and play back video with AIR for iOS on iPad
Recently I needed to figure out how to create an iPad app when you can record and play back video from the iPad’s camera, and then upload to it to a server using AIR for iOS. I wasn’t able to find a whole lot of info on it and so I eventually pieced it together […]
December 3, 2012
AS3 / JS Constrain a value in one line
Here is a little snippet to constrain a value in a single line. It works by using two nested inline conditionals. The ‘else’ part of the first conditional is another conditional. It may not be the best approach but it works and is much easier and faster to write than two if-else statements. In English […]
November 29, 2012
AS3 Getting colours blended between two other colours
Here is another function that can be added to my ColourUtil class. This one gets a specified number of colour steps between two blended colours. I thought it would be much harder to achieve than it is, luckily the AS3 Color class has the static method interpolateColor which calculates a single colour at a specified […]
November 18, 2012
JS Transform Handles
The other day I was playing around with Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker and I had the idea of using HTML/JS/CSS to create transformable divs using transform handles and a bounding box. I did a quick search for any existing examples of HTML transform handles but i couldn’t find anything so I decided to give it a […]
November 17, 2012
Inspiring Inspiration #9
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
November 13, 2012
AS3 Hex Colour Dodge blending utility
The following is a function that takes two hex colours – a top colour and a bottom colour – and blends them using the Colour Dodge blend mode as found in Illustrator of Photoshop. This is handy for dynamically generating colour variants based on the blend mode. Instead of blending two display objects it simply […]
November 12, 2012
AS3 Easy gapless sound looping solution
If you have come accross the issue of sounds not looping seamlessly in a Flash project then try the following.Simply offset the start of the sound by 80 milliseconds:
November 11, 2012
Emailing images directly from Flash with PHP
For an interactive drawing project I worked on recently I needed to provide the ability for users to email their artwork directly from the app without the need to save any images to a server. I pieced together a solution from various blogs and websites and I decided to provide the full source here. The […]
September 8, 2012