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...
August 4th, 2010 by Christian
Scale Bitmaps without distortion: BitmapSlice9
I just came across a blog entry by Grant Skinner about BitmapSlice9. This is awesome news for the global navigation. I will check it out and post a sample project soon (ok, as soon as I have time…) Cheers, Christian
April 15th, 2010 by Christian
In love with UIScrollbar
This post is all about scrolling. I’m not talking about scrolling text, but scrolling movieclips. Or more precise: scrolling a whole flash website. If you want to do this you have a few choices. If you have read the title of this post you know which is my favoured method… Use the browser scrollbar This seems to be the obvious choice. I do this sometimes, and if I do I use SWFFIT. This...
October 5th, 2009 by Christian
Multipage printing class for AS3
A little off topic, but it is something I have been in need of for a long time: multipage printing. I’ve been searching to find a class for AS3 that does this, but I have only found instructions and basic explanations on how to use the printjob class of AS3. So I used to tell my clients, uuh, printing is quite difficult in flash and they were always brave and I could skip it. But it has become...
June 12th, 2009 by Christian
Send and load variables with AS3 and PHP
Because I use this all the time I decided to put the handling of loading variables with AS3 and PHP in a handy little class. The usage is really simple: (more…)
February 21st, 2009 by Christian
