Turtlebite's Blog

XML Editor v2: online and AIR application!

It’s been so long again since I’ve been posting in this blog. Things have changed a lot in the last view months, I have finally started to do web design without flash (something I could not imagine a view years ago…). I have also been diving deep into Flex and at last started with PureMVC, something I wanted to do for a long time. It’s an incredibly cool mvc framework, and if...

Flebsite launched: kaegi.net

It was about time to relaunch my own website. Of course it is now also a flebsite and all content is managed by the Flash CMS Framework.

Global Navigation v2.16: Reparenting buttons

I’ve been asked a few times how to set up a navigation where some groups are decoupled from each other. Let’s say, you have a main navigation on the left side, and when you select a menu item, show the sub navigation on the right side. What you have to do in such a case is reparenting the buttons. By default, they are all inside the same movie clip. But of course you can easely take them...

Fleb 2.0: the Flash Website Framework has grown up!

Again some time has passed and while working on different projects I have continuosly improved the Fleb Framework. I have finally found the time to wrap it all up and release the next version. Besides a lot of small improvements to the global navigation (which is part of the Fleb Framework), I have integrated a few things for your convenience. Okay, let’s start with the new features: . iPhone...

Global Navigation for Flash: version 2.15 released

Hi all. Just another update of the global navigation. A few bugfixes, some improvements, nothing exciting. Have a look at the changelog for more details. You can download it the global navigation here. And something completely different: For those of you who sent me an email on saturday 3 december 2010, please send it again, my harddisc crashed and I have lost some mails…

Site XML Manager for Gaia

A few days ago I launched my new online xml editor. Now I like to show you how you can use this editor to manage your site xml files for your Gaia websites. As mentioned in the introduction post, this xml editor can be formed to suit your needs by using a so-called configuration file. In this file, which also is a simple xml file, you describe how your final xml file should behave. Have a look at this...

Introducing the Online XML Editor

I have finished another tool: an online editor for xml files. With this editor you can easily import your xml files and edit them without having to worry about proper syntax. Try it and let me know what you think! When I started writing this editor, I wanted to create something to handle xml files for the global navigation. It quickly turn into something much more complex, and even better, much more...

Flebsite launched: www.turtlebite.com

I finally have launched a website on which I can show that I actually use all the stuff that I write about in this blog. I have also integrated my upcoming online xml editor, which is almost complete. Well, it actually is, but as usual I have to setup the documentation etc. But you can already have a look and try out the basic functions: www.online-xml-editor.com (User: demo, Pw: demo). For the menubar...

Fleb Showcase, new Flebsite: FindAndDine

FindAndDine is a search engine for restaurants and bars in switzerland. The first version was launched in 2004, the next in 2008 using AS2 and SWFAddress. This version was built in less than 3 months. It has more than 20’000 links in Google & Co. The background theme and homepage change according to the time: coffee in the morning, salad at lunchtime, ice cream in the afternoon and some wine...

Runtime dynamic font loading in AS3

I know this has been a long discussed topic. And I’m not going to re-invent the wheel. I have been searching for a long time now and have found many ways to dynamically load fonts at runtime in AS3, there are a lot of good solutions out there. But yesterday I found a font manager class and WOW, that’s a really smart method. So all I did was wrapping it in another class, to make the handling...