AFC Giveaway

by Leon on April 30, 2008

I’ve just heard news that AFC (the creators of GMap amongst others) are to give away all of their AS2 components for free. This is their biggest giveaway ever ($310) and we would appreciate your help spreading the word. You (…)

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flCodr – beta

by Leon on April 20, 2008

Quick update!! After about a week of hard work the beta version of flCodr is now online. The basic idea is to have a repository of Flash code snippets online in a centralised location. The unique idea hear however is (…)

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AFComponents

by Leon on April 10, 2008

I’m on Advanced Flash Components!! My two GMap enabled mash-ups have been posted on the AFC website. AFC make the GMap component and lots of other fantastic ones. Give them a try for your next project

flcodr.com – a Flash of genius?

by Leon on April 10, 2008

Inspired my Lee Brimelow’s Snippet extension Panel for Flash I am setting up a new code repository for Flash Developers. If you don’t know what Snippet’s is, its an extension for Flash that displays a list of code snippets that (…)

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Locator Panel update

by Leon on April 7, 2008

The Locator Panel has now been updated to v1.2. The update improves the functionality of the Map, in terms of being controlled by the keyboard and mouse. It also improves feedback when a connection is lost or cannot be found. (…)

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Flash Locator Panel

by Leon on April 4, 2008

Hot on the heels of my Flash/GoogleMaps mashup comes this extension for Flash. This was created as an easy way to add points to the GMap component and is great if your not planning on making your map dynamic but (…)

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Flash/GoogleMaps mashup!

by Leon on March 28, 2008

I’ve have created my first true web mash-up using Flash and the Google Maps API. Firstly check it out here, and then head back to read the steps involved. Note! At the moment I have manually limited the search to (…)

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Flash Text Object Properties

by Leon on March 13, 2008

This applies to AS2.0, but the logic should also work with AS3.0 I was working on a project recently in which I needed to create a dynamic tooltip that would display when a user rolled over an object (in this (…)

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Simple Flash Timer

by Leon on March 11, 2008

I’ve not written an ActionScript related post for a while, so thought I would share a way to make a simple timer function in Flash. This has all sorts of uses. I currently use it to create a tooltip when (…)

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iPhone SDK!!

by Leon on March 10, 2008

So i’ve got the SDK downloaded and set up on my machine. I had a quick look around and from on GUI point of view it looks very impressive. The icons are as you would expect from Apple, detailed yet (…)

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