Just a quick note - I’ve got an article coming out in the next issue of Flex & Flash Developers Magazine (which I believe will be out in December). The article is titled Getting Started with Google Maps in Flash is centred around using the GoogleMaps API from the Flash IDE. The lineup for the articles in this issue looks pretty sweet so be sure to check it out when it hits the stores.

I’m hoping to write an article for the next issue (if I can get it in on time!) but I’m still undecided as to what topic to cover… At the moment it’s heading towards an introduction to Papervison3D, though I wouldn’t mind doing something on the AS3 Flickr API.

Thoughts?

Jassa

I’ve finally found some time to spend on my ImageTip class (a class that adds tooltip style images to words in an AS3 TextField). Check out the demo here.

At this stage you can setup imagetips with either a set image source (url), or a comma separated tag list that will pull the most recent relevant image from flickr.

You can find the class files here, along with an example FLA. Additionally, you’ll need to download the as3flickrlib classes. You’ll also need to include your flickr API key and Secret. You can find these parameters in the FlickrTip class.

If you have any suggestions/requests, just leave a comment below. This is totally a work in progress so I’ll just adding to it when I get the time. I’ll be implementing more flickr options next (tags from a selected user/group), and hopefully YouTube/FLV integration after that. I’ll also add CSS parameters to style the links.

Enjoy…

Jassa

After playing around with calling AS3 functions from a html TextField in Flash I’ve decided to create an image tooltip class. As you can see from this basic example you just need to put the word you want to add the tooltip to in a custom ‘imagetip’ tag, and then set some attributes.

In the example above I’ve only set a path to an image but I’m hoping to extend it across Flickr so that you can pull popular images tagged with that that word, or pull tagged images from a particular public user account.

Hopefully I’ll get a chance to look at it over the coming week or two - but I’ll post it up here as soon as I have something of substance!

Jassa

Last night I wrote a quick AIR application that uses a Singleton written by Martin Legris. Basically you type in a word and if the spelling is incorrect, it will give you the closest suggestion from Yahoo!’s spelling suggestions. Click here or on the image below to download the app.

Jassa

I’ve finally had a little bit of spare time to start working on something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Basically, it’s a Flash blog site that is run completely via a Wordpress (dot org) account.

After watching Lee Brimelow’s tutorial on using AMFPHP I got to work and created a few simple PHP calls to pull all the necessary data out of my Wordpress database. From there it was just a matter of handling the data in Flash.

At the moment it’s a long way from finished. I’ve got the posts, comments, and links coming in, but I still need to deal with Pages, plus all the extra stuff. And eventually posting comments etc (swfaddress would be nice too ;). The whole process has actually been really smooth with AMFPHP but it will take a bit of time to finish - which unfortunately I don’t have a lot of! Hopefully I’ll have an update soon though.

I’ve only spent a few hours on it and it isn’t much took look at (yet) but you can check it out here to track my progress.

Jassa

So the idea behind this started when I was playing around with 3D space in Astro (Flash Player 10) but I ran into a few walls. Anyway I wanted to finish it off so I made it in Papervision instead. For some reason I’m losing a few cubes in the lower frequencies, maybe they’re just getting lost in the for loop or something.

Anyway, screenshot/link below… (Music by L’Assemble). Enjoy!
Jassa