I was in the process of collecting all of my favorite Actionscript 3 class libraries, when I came across this giant list of them. Rather than double up the work, I wanted to share it with everyone! This guy put a lot of time into organizing it, and its a very useful list. If you don’t know how to use external libraries, check out my article on them.
Huge list of external libraries
November 9th, 2009
Let There Be Sound
November 6th, 2009
Another great animated short, sure to inspire anyone into music!
Let There Be Sound from Tom, Dick & Harry on Vimeo.
Use FireBug to debug your flash!
November 5th, 2009
Found this great little write up on using FireBug (super great tool for Firefox) to display information from flash, just like a trace().
[note] As Matthew pointed out below, there are quite a few better options than this, including FlashTracer(my first choice!) and MonsterDebugger. This is just another one to know about ;D
// Import The ExternalInterface Class import flash.external.ExternalInterface; // Call the console.log JavaScript function // passing it your trace ExternalInterface.call( "console.log" , "Hey! I'm tracing from Flash!");
Using this, your information will be traced out to the console of Firebug. This is an invaluable technique, as you can save tons of time debugging your application from a live environment, rather than jumping back and forth between flash and testing.
Adobe Cookbook Find: AIR Undo/Redo
November 4th, 2009
Stumbled across this Adobe Cookbook post that explains how to add Undo/Redo functionality to your AIR Application! Seems pretty easy!
Solution
Every time the document is changed, we save the previous state on a list. To undo, we take the data at the current position in the list, and use it to restore the document. We also need to save the document state before we restore it. This enables us to redo. (Finish the article here, includes source)
Encourage Inspiration: New Artwork
November 4th, 2009
Encourage Inspiration is a series dedicated to practices that help foster creativity & inspiration.
If you have a few extra dollars to spend (who doesn’t, lol), head on over to your favorite art store, and pick out some new inspiring artwork for your creative area. Framing is a bit more expensive, but I feel it’s always worth it.
Here are some of my favorite places to get inspiring artwork:
Once you are surrounded with stuff you find inspiring, its hard not to get creative!
Have any inspiration encouraging practices? Post them in the comments!
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