This isn’t too complicated, but it’s something I hadn’t come across until a few days ago. If you want to tween an object relatively, but the new value changes and needs to be a variable, just cast it as a string. If you’re not using TweenMax/TweenLite, do yourself a favor and give it a try.
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Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip.
While finishing up a project a couple months ago, I ran into a problem trying to preload a SWF. Everything worked fine in my development environment. I was throttling my bandwidth using Charles to test things, and the preloader was working as expected. But when I posted it to staging my Flash preloader was broken. [...]
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Easily Test & View Alternative Content while Using SWFObject
SWFObject is great. I’ve been using it to embed Flash content in my pages since the IE / Eolas “click to activate” thing when it was still called FlashObject. But SWFObject is missing a feature. It’s not easy enough to test your non-Flash alternative content. You can bump up the required version number to one [...]
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Forcing Vertical Scrollbar Gutter to Show to Prevent Page Shift while Using swffit
Update: This fix is no longer necessary. When explaining it to a coworker, we discovered a new version of swffit with a new method called showScrollV() that does the same thing. A common problem with centered web site layouts is what’s been dubbed “page shift.” This happens as users move among pages that are too [...]
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Caterpillar Progress Site Recognized in Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web
Our Caterpillar Progress site made Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web list. Read about it here or below. 2008 Best of Web: The Winners (cont’d) VSA PARTNERS Caterpillar’s signature-yellow construction and mining machines are icons of American industry: For more than 80 years, that equipment has been building the world’s infrastructure. In 2005 [...]
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PointRoll Banners for Caterpillar Progress
As banners go, these ones I did to promote the Caterpillar Progress site are pretty cool. They are your typical annoying ones that open over page content when rolled over. I did 3 different sizes of the ad. And I used the PointRoll Flash API for tracking.
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Caterpillar Progress Launches
I’ve been working on this one for the last few months. This is my first use of SWFAddress which is pretty slick, though we’re having some issues with URL redirects and frames that we have to use in the live environment. It works great in my testing environment though! This as a deep and complicated [...]
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The Peshtigo Home and Banners
Working with Design Kitchen I did the Flash portion of the Peshtigo’s site (a new building in Chicago). The building pop outs are defined in an external XML file. Fuse was used for animations as well as an external drawing class for other effects. I also did a series of banner ads of different sizes [...]
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Brookfield Zoo Explorer
Here is a nice piece I’ve been working on at DK for the next version of the Brookfield Zoo’s site. The cool part is the scrolling zoo explorer. Click the “Zoo Explorer” tab at the top left and then play with the scrolling functionality at the bottom left. I had to use a combination of [...]
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Oprah “O Ambassadors” Animations
Here are some zippy timelined animations I did with Design Kitchen for the new Oprah Ambassadors site. Technologies Used: Flash CS3
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