Truly excited about Ari’s (http://pericraft.com) idea, we are going to have a special meeting this month. The focus of the meeting is “How Stuff Works”.

Basically it’s about bringing up your questions and discuss them together. Things like, how to do Augmented Reality (we’ve already covered that), how to do Yugop’s running text or, most frequently, how did they do this (or that you discovered during random browsing)?

If you see something interesting but can’t figure out how it works, share with us and hopefully, we can nail the solution.

Please post your questions on the Facebook event page and we’ll cover them during the meeting. If you are shy, you can also ask during the actual meeting.

Venue: 35 Robinson Road, #03-01 the Ogilvy Centre
Date: Saturday June 27th
Time: 11am

Please come along and share your thoughts, ideas, and questions.

Please RSVP via Facebook

Hope to see you all there,
Ed

Location: Singapore

Position: Senior Flash Developer

Information:

The Upper Storey is not your typical interactive agency, nor your typical creative department. We are known for our innovative concepts, our endless supply of creativity, our tight-knit work family. We take great pride in our team and we live and breathe our work.

Job Summary:

You will develop interactive elements, including web pages, flash objects, or any rich media content for various touchpoints. Additionally, you will provide leadership in the use of Flash technology and mentor junior developers on the team.. Projects range from Rich Media and Game Programming to flash websites and banners with dynamic content. You work closely with creative team to deliver cutting edge rich media solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to mentor junior team members
• Apply your visual design skills to create dynamic and complex Flash Designs.
• Involvement in the conceptual phase of projects. Work closely with creative lead, IA, Content Strategist and front-end developer to deliver-media rich client solutions.
• Understanding of Video codec’s and advanced video encoding options in Flash.
• Understanding of 3rd party implementations and extensions
• Active Flash, Flex, Developer Community involvement.
• Constant R&D on new technologies that will help The Upper Storey push the boundaries

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of industry experience in ActionScript 2.0 or 3.0 for Flash applications integrated with server-side web applications and CMS
• ServerSide Scripting such as PHP or ASP
• Experience implementing OOP concepts with ActionScript
• XHTML / CSS (validating), DHTML (JQuery), AJAX
• Building integrated data-driven applications and sites that link to other third part apis such as facebook and open social
• Optimization of creative elements for varying bandwidth and platform requirements
• Strong written and oral communication skills

To Apply:

Please send email to coder{@}upperstorey.com

I updated the slides slightly because I missed out talking about the ability to use CSS classes.

I have also done up an example file which you can download on how to use html and css in flash

Ed

• Music and Computer Book: http://digitalmusics.dartmouth.edu/~book/
• Andre Michelle: http://blog.andre-michelle.com/
• AS3 Sound Visualizer Contest: http://theflashblog.com/?p=197
• Flight404 on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/flight404

I’ve also uploaded the flash source files I demonstrated during the presentation. Put a mp3 file inside the folder and name it as “jingle.mp3″  to make it work properly. (I can’t upload mine because of copy right issues).

Presentation Slides | Flash Source File

I have uploaded the sample files I have shown in the 3rd A-SFUG meeting. I hope you people find it useful and enjoy the session!

asfug-as3loading

Cheerio!

Dan Murong

This round Shang will be talking about the use of sound in Flash, including using the equalizer. After that, Danny will give an overview of loading in Flash with as3. Ed will end the session with a talk about the use of CSS in Flash, and a tip & trick. Following that will be a free discussion and some Q&A.

Schedule:

11:00-11:15: Welcome message
11:15-11:45: Sound in Flash by Shang
11:45-12:15: Loading in Flash by Danny
12:15-12:45: CSS in Flash by Ed
12-45-1:00: Free Discussion and Q&A

Venue:

35 Robinson Road, #03-01 the Ogilvy Centre

Please come along and share your thoughts, ideas, and questions.

Please RSVP via Facebook

Hope to see you all there,
Ed

Think! Studio Pte Ltd is looking for Flash Game Developers to complement our team.

• Familiar and comfortable with AS2, AS3
• Keen to learn
• Passion for games a bonus

More details can be found here - http://sg.jobstreet.com/jobs/2009/3/default/20/2067682.htm?fr=J

Please send applications to arsyad{@}thinkstudio.com.sg with examples of work, date of availability and resume.

Specifically looking for people in:
Application Design & Development Specialisation
Knowledge in the following areas: Interaction design; Interactive Authoring / Scripting; Flash Action Scripting and Development; Interactive Media Development (Web / Mobile / Interactive TV) and Processing Language. Those who have experience in setting up experimental interaction design installations are preferred.

Apply via https://tp-eservices.tp.edu.sg/erspub/

When coding in actionscript sometimes it can be a pain that you don’t get code hinting with objects that are on stage. A good way of overcoming this is to change the instance names of your objects (Movie Clips, Buttons, etc.) to have an underscore “_” then the abbreviated name of that object at the end of the name.

For example, you may have a movie clip on stage called myMovieClip. Change the instance name to have an _mc at the end (myMovieClip_mc), and now in your actions panel type myMovieClip_mc and press period. You will now see all the code hinting for a movie clip pop up (see image). This can save a whole heap of time when coding.

Here is a list of the different shortcuts that you can use to bring up the code hinting. Some of these are for AS2 but the rest will work with AS3.

Update: The best method for code hinting for objects that are not on the stage is to use strict data typing. 

For example:
var myArray:Array = new Array();

I find that using this technique saves me a whole heap of time when programming.