Archive for April, 2008

26
Apr

AS3 Teachers Wanted

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Categories: General

If you are a teacher or trainer currently using Learning ActionScript 3.0 in a class, please get in touch. We are developing additional teaching resources and are anxious to know what you think would help you most. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the book? What tools will help you in your teaching? Any opinions will be appreciated!

If you’re a student using Learning ActionScript 3.0 in a class, please let us know what kinds of class resources you think would be useful, and tell your instructor we’re looking for input!

23
Apr

Looking Forward to Flashbelt

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Categories: Training

We’re very happy to announce that I’ll be conducting a workshop on ActionScript 3.0 at this year’s Flashbelt conference in Minneapolis. It’s a full-day workshop based on the book, teaching the fundamentals of AS3 with lots of examples and, of course, free source code.

This will be my first time at Flashbelt, and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve heard very high praise about the show—praise that grows year over year—and I dig Flashbelt’s El Hefe, Dave Schroeder. In addition to putting together Flashbelt, Dave is also the brains and talent behind Pilotvibe, a groovy place to get you some Flash sound.

From everything I’ve heard, Flashbelt is a happenin’ gig, that has an intimate feel and a stellar group of presenters. This year is no exception. Presenters include Mark Anders, Julian Dolce, JR Fabito, Richard Galvan, Moses Gunesch, Joshua Hirsch, Robert Hodgin, Mario Klingemann, Tali Krakowsky, Dan Lacivita, Lisa Larson-Kelley, Seb Lee-Delisle, Andre Michelle, Stacey Mulcahy, Erik Natzke, Paul Ortchanian, Danny Patterson, Todd Perkins, Robert Reinhardt, Rich Shupe, Geoff Stearns, Mate Steinforth, Zach Stepek, Craig Swann, Jared Tarbell, Dustin Tauer, Jeremy Thorp, and Philip Van Allen.

This year, the event is June 8-11, and I hope to see you there.

20
Apr

Property Practice (simple motion)

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Categories: Ch03: Properties, Methods, Events and Ch07: Motion

Having a good grasp of the basic properties of display objects is extremely important for anyone interested in intermediate level ActionScript. This post assumes that you’ve taken the time to read through Chapter 3. If you’re new to ActionScript, it will likely help with this post if you read up to Chapter 7.

This post contains a few short exercises that will put your knowledge of properties to the test.

As a guide, here are the properties that you will need to be familiar with:

x
y
scaleX
scaleY
height
width
rotation

For each example you’ll need to use the properties in conjunction with an enterFrame event:

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop, false, 0, true);

function onLoop(evt:Event):void {
  // change properties over time
}

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