Visualizr source

A few people asked me for the Visualizr source. I always said I’d post it on my blog ‘pretty soon’… Well… It’s not pretty soon, but at least I didn’t totally forget about it. Anyway here’s the Actionscript class I made in a Flex Actionscript project

I did some pretty naughty things in there, but it worked out the way I wanted it… So be nice :p
Make sure you have got the MP3 tracks in place You’ll need at least one. Make sure you change the tracknames too.

Playr 2.0 is here!

It almost took me an eternity, but at last it’s there: Playr 2.0 is ready.
Playr is a Flash Actionscript 3 class built to take the heavy lifting off your hands when building any kind of music player appliction in Flash, Flex or AIR. I put a lot of work and time in this project, and I think the result is amazing: Playr is hands down the easiest way to do so!

I’m very happy to finally release this. A lot of people helped me test it and gave me feedback.
That helped me a lot, and changed a lot of features. Special thanks to all of you!

I’ve put up a dedicated site for Playr where all of the information, code examples, downloads are gathered.
Head over there to read more about it!

More info:
Playr site: Click
Download Playr 2.0: Click
Playr 2.0 documentation: Click

Can I use Flash CS3 to open Flash CS4 files?

NO.

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Congrats Thomas and Boulevart

Man, I’ve been postponing writing a blogpost about Boulevart’s nomination for the Adobe MAX awards way too long (even though I promised I would post. Sorry guys). In fact I’ve been postponing this so long, that right now it’s too late.

However: Thomas Joos, his crew at Boulevart and Barefoot created a Flash Lite application that blew everybody away. Having said that: They won an Adobe Max award at Max Milan about 10 minutes ago. (That makes me the first one to report this, right? )

I think this is incredibly cool since Thomas just finished school a year ago. I think he’s done some amazing work in the 12 months that passed.
You deserve it, Thomas. Congratulations to you and Boulevart for achieving this!

More info about the app: Click

A little preview about the (Flash Lite, running on) iPhone application

Flash CS4 doesn’t like your FLA files!

I’ve been an early adopter of Adobe’s new Creative Suite which has been announced in October. At first glance everything seemed okay, and I really really REALLY enjoyed working with the new Flash IDE. The thing I liked the most were the panels which aren’t animated anymore. The panels still disappear when you click outside the IDE, but they disappear instantly. No laggy fading away.

Another cool thing is the workspace switcher. I never switched workspaces before CS4 because of the overhead: You had to go to ‘Window’ then go back down to ‘Workspaces’, and then you got to choose you workspace… If you already specified any…
Flash CS4 comes with a few standard workspaces and a very handy button, located in the main screen of Flash. Changing workspaces is really only one click away!

Next thing that drew my attention was the 3D capabilities which are now built-in. I have always been intrested in 3D, but I never really got to play with it. So I hoped Flash would allow me some playing around with it.
I must say: The built-in feature is pretty cool. You can actually draw 2D objects and then move them around in a 3D space. The bad thing? The 2D object will stay a 2D object. You can’t change the ‘depth’ of an object. You can only alter the width and the height of the object. That’s a turndown for me. Nonetheless: it’s cool!

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