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Wonder wall case study

andrevenancio — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:18:56 +0000

Everybody knows and loves Yugo Nakamura and this tha.jp company. There are alot of “interpretations” on how Nakamura developed the http://wonder-wall.com website. This is my interpretation of it in a series of tutorials. Hope you like it, comments are disabled. [...]

introduction to love™ Actionscript Framework

andrevenancio — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:13:25 +0000

Over the time I created an easy way to get projects up and running without losing too much time in the logic. There are a lot of frameworks that do this, and more, but I find that mine is very easy to work with, and I use it in all my projects. love™ isn´t exactly [...]

I almost like easter eggs more than moustaches

andrevenancio — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:09:48 +0000

Sometimes I like to pretend that in every website I do, I have and easter egg. Sometimes I share it with friends and sometimes I dont. Its a kind of therapy that helps me keep excited about a project. Weird I know. So, this is how I usually do it. Somewhere in your Application, you [...]

Calculating mouse speed

andrevenancio — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:54:10 +0000

Usefull for game development. package { import flash.events.Event; import flash.text.TextField; public class Example { private var velocityInfo:TextField; private var prevX:Number = mouseX; private var prevY:Number = mouseY; private var velX:Number = 0; private var velY:Number = 0; public function Example():void { velocityInfo = new TextField(); velocityInfo.x = 20; velocityInfo.y = 20; addChild(velocityInfo); addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, [...]

HTML5, Flash, and Cocoa Apps

andrevenancio — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:10:50 +0000

Its been a while since my last post… I´ve been working alot on new projects, and I haven´t had much time to update my blog. I´m sorry! ;) It has been a big buzz about HTML5 for a while now, and is it or is it not going to “kill Flash”. I´ve worked with some [...]

Introduction to Objective C

andrevenancio — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:30:12 +0000

In iPhone Development we use Objective C. Objective C was created in 1983 and it evolve from C and SmallTalk. In 1988 Next licenced Objective C (for NextStep OS) and in 1996 Apple buys NeXT, and in the next few years they use Objective C in Developing OS X. So, this is why iPhone applications [...]

how to make a iPhone Hello World App

andrevenancio — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:21:40 +0000

welcome to my 1st tutorial of iPhone Development. This is a 4 step guide to program your first iPhone App. 1) Open Xcode, create a new project by selecting New Project and the click on the icon labeled View-Based Application, this is the simplest of all templates. Save your project and you are ready to [...]

see all properties of an Object

andrevenancio — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:05:08 +0000

Here´s a simple loop to check every property in a object, just in case u dont know what you are getting. var infoObject:Object = {info:"a string", name:"another String", data:["hello", "there","sir"], object:{}}; for (var propName:String in infoObject) { trace(propName + " = " + infoObject[propName]); }

convert seconds to HH:MM:SS and HH:MM:SS to seconds

andrevenancio — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:48:31 +0000

While making a video stream project, I had to convert seconds to HH:MM:SS and vice versa, so I created this class. /* USAGE: TimeUtils.encode(90); TimeUtils.decode("00:01:30"); */ package euro.utils { public class TimeUtils { public function TimeUtils():void { } public static function encode(_seconds:int):String { var seg = _seconds %60; var min = _seconds/60 %60; var [...]

Custom background on an animated TextField

andrevenancio — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:34:19 +0000

I thought I could share a piece of code. This is a work in progress, but I thought this could come in handy to someone out there. [kml_flashembed publishmethod="static" fversion="10.0.0" movie="http://blog.andrevenancio.com/tutorials/2010/BackgroundText.swf" width="400" height="300" targetclass="flashmovie"] import av.events.SiteEvent; import av.utils.LoadFont; import av.effects.BackgroundText; var font1:LoadFont = new LoadFont("fonts/AauxProBold.swf"); font1.addEventListener(SiteEvent.LOAD_FONT_COMPLETE, loadComplete); var style:TextFormat; var [...]