Last week I ran into some trouble when trying to load images dynamically in flash, 99% of the time my images loaded in as they should but at what seemed like random intervals and image would suddenly fail to appear, this was only happening in Firefox or Safari, IE has never as far as I can tell failed to load an image when I’ve been using it to test this project. At first I thought it might be a problem with the platform the site was running on however after some testing I was able to rule this out so I turned back to my trusty friend Charles the Web Debugging Proxy for some help.

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Always remeber to register your fonts in externally loaded SWFs is the lesson learned today, afterI loaded my project SWF into my preloader SWF and found none of my embeded fonts were appearing!!

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Recently I came across the problem of trying to manipulate the bitmap data of an image loaded from a server which doesn’t host a crossdomain.xml ot where it doesn’t allow all domains. I tried a couple of different things to try and get round this problem most notably Martin Legris’ fix (Getting around the crossdomain.xml file when loading images in as3) but annoyingly nothing I tried would work.

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Last year Microsoft commissioned us to build them a IPTV channel n partnership with CBS Sports showing sports news, interviews, highlights and stats.

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This site was a internal POC and my first build using papervision. The brief was to reproduce Air Tight Interactives Tilt Viewer with the addition of  a video playback component. My secondary school trigonometry was pushed to the limit and we had trials and tribulations along the way but I think we ended up with something pretty good.

http://beta.etherdigital.com

This is a fun little flash site for shades hairdressers in Angel. The guys at Shades wanted a site which was bright and bold but also clear and concise in the delivery of it’s information.

The site is built in as2, has both an image and video gallery as well as a booking form.

Check it out here www.shadesN1.com.

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This is a little flash site created on a budget for the Big Little Charity, the simple interface is comprised of various cards displaying news, images, information, audio, and video, a user can zoom in and out as well as pan around using both the mouse and the keyboard.  This was a super project to work on as the client gave us a lot of freedom both in terms of the design and then final build and I think that comes through in the finished site.

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Recently I found that I needed to type check and object in actionscript 3 and didn’t have the first clue how to do it. As always google was my friend and here’s the solution I came up with.

import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;
//=============================
public static function checkClassType(obj:*):String
{
	var nam:String = getQualifiedClassName(obj);
	return nam;
}
//=============================

This is the Epac Centre, a media library, player, download manager, and browser rolled into one. This app was built to allow people to down load Epacs, interact with them, as well as manage and view the content contained with each Epac.

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This is the Epac Store, your one stop shop for all things Epac. The Epac Store is built from a combination of Flash, HTML, and Javascript, and acts as a download service and payment gateway,  where users are also able to preview content enter exclusive competitions. The store has a dynamic CMS allowing the client to add new Epacs to the download service, create competition, and send out mail shots.

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