Category Archives: Flash

Tweening to a Relative Position using a Variable in TweenMax

By Patrick | Published: August 17, 2009

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. // Your everyday absolute tween that moves movieclip_mc // to 100 on the x axis, taking [...]

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Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip.

By Patrick | Published: April 20, 2009

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

By Patrick | Published: April 6, 2009

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 that [...]

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Forcing Vertical Scrollbar Gutter to Show to Prevent Page Shift while Using swffit

By Patrick | Published: March 11, 2009

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 short [...]

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Caterpillar Progress Site Recognized in Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web

By Patrick | Published: September 13, 2008

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 VSA Partners helped [...]

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PointRoll Banners for Caterpillar Progress

By Patrick | Published: June 2, 2008

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

By Patrick | Published: March 18, 2008

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The Peshtigo Home and Banners

By Patrick | Published: November 14, 2007

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 matching [...]

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Brookfield Zoo Explorer

By Patrick | Published: November 5, 2007

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 enter [...]

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