Where's my Sound ???

Here's a Handy little tip I just figured out today. So I have a button that plays sound and once if finishes playing it should fire the Event.SOUND_COMPLETE. In this events handler, it resets the position back to the beginning of the clip. Now the problem is once I try to play it again, it doesn't seem to fire the Event.SOUND_COMPLETE event. Have you ever had the issue of your Event.SOUND_COMPLETE not firing properly?? Read on and find out why......

Shoppable Runway

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  - Flash, CSS, AS3

  
  


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  - Created @radical.media for Tommy Hilfiger

  
  



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- Jr. Flash Developer - Create the page Template
- Made use of a Tweening Engine




• Live Site

Outerwear Gallery

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Technologies

- Flash, CSS, AS3

Brief

- Created @radical.media for Tommy Hilfiger

Role

- Jr. Flash Developer - Create the page Template
- Made use of a Tweening Engine

Mens Live Site

Womens Live Site

Marvel Powergrid

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  - Flash, XML, AS3

  
  


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  - Created at Marvel Entertainment

  
  



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- Jr. Flash Developer - Translate AS2 to AS3
- Made use of a Tweening Engine
- Receive XML and send Requests via PHP




• Live Site

Tommy Hilfiger - Fashion Week 2009

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  - Flash, CSS, AS3

  
  


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  - Created @radical.media for Tommy Hilfiger

  
  



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- Jr. Flash Developer - Create the page Template
- Made use of a Tweening Engine




• Live Site

Get Schooled

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  - Flash, CSS, AS3

  
  


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  - Created @radical.media for Viacom

  
  



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- Jr. Flash Developer - Help style the CSS, animated logo, and minor AS3/AS2 Flash work




• Live Site

Burksten Group

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  - Wordpress, PHP, XHTML, CSS

  
  


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  - Programmed this design (by BetterInPink) for Wordpress 2.7.1. This features a custom sidebar using CSS Layers and a custom switching option for unique header on pages

  
  


• Live Site

Cool Flash Tip of the Week 5

Hey Flashers, I know its been a long time since the last tip. Time has not been on my side recently, but I'm getting some more free time and I'll be posting regularly again. Be on the look out, I have some new websites and articles coming out. You can see the latest website to date, Galley Smith Blog. But aside from all of that, down to the tip.

Galley Smith Website

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  - Wordpress, PHP, XHTML, CSS

  
  


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  - Programmed this design (by BetterInPink) for Wordpress 2.8. This features a custom Twitter Feed on the sidebar and various depths using CSS Layers. Also a custom Theme Options panel for changing the options easily.

  
  


• Live Site


• Demo Site

Web Designer Magazine 159

Hey people, I've been published again in Web Designer Magazine Issue 159. In this tutorial, I walk you through how to make a MP3 player with a sound visualizer. Its a pretty short and straight to the point tutorial. Hopefully everyone will be able to follow along and make some cool mp3 players. If there are any concerns or questions, post it here on the blog and I'll get back to you ASAP.

Go pick up your copy and leave some feed back. Check out a preview here

Where have I been???

Hey valued readers, I'm sorry for my absence lately. I've had a ton of projects come in recently that have devoured my time. I haven't forgotten about the Cool Flash Tips of the Week. I have a couple to post, but just haven't found the time to flesh them out. They should be back up and running by August 1st. The wait will be worth it people.

Happy Flashing.

Cool Flash Tip of the Week 4

I know last week I said we will be learning about a custom class, but I think I'll hold that one for next week. This week we are going to check out a quick and useful tip that I didn't even know about until a couple of days ago for selecting XML and XMLList nodes. This won't be as in depth as the last, but I still think its a great quick tip.

Cool Flash Tip of the Week 3

Welcome back everyone for the 3rd installment of the Cool Flash Tip of the Week Series. This week we are going to take a look at a new class introduced with Flash Player 10. Say hello to the Vector Class.

Win 1000 Business Cards and a Canvas Print from UPrinting!!

Selene M. Bowlby also known on twitter as idesignstudios is having a huge giveaway. To commemorate 1 year as a full-time freelancer, she is hosting a 1000 Business Cards + Canvas Print giveaway sponsored by UPrinting. Its super easy to enter. Just leave a comment on her blog with an explanation of why you should win. For more info on the giveaway, check out her post.

UPrinting 1000 Business Card + Canvas Print Giveaway!

Cool Flash Tip of the Week 2

I've gotten a lot of positive feedback on the Cool Flash Tip of the Week series. So as long as people find them useful, I'll keep them coming. Make sure to subscribe to be on top of all tips and add me on twitter. Now with all the formalities out the way, lets get a move on to the tip of the week. This week's tip is about Events!!

Cool Flash Tip of the Week 1

I'm going to start a series that will occur every week. A cool flash tip or something I think not many people know about. Be on the lookout every week for a new tip. This week's CFT is ......drumroll......." The Tertiary Operator ".

kreativeMP3 - MP3 Player

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  - Actionscript 3.0, XML

  
  


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  - Nice, advanced audio player with simple controls.

  
  


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• - ID3 Tags support (Up to v2.4)


• - Loop and Shuffle functionality


• - Animated Volume Slider


• - Live Scrubbing


• Purchase Here

kreativeROTATE - XML Banner Rotator

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  - Actionscript 3.0, XML



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  Brief

  
  
  
  

  - Simple and clean banner / image rotator. XML driven slide show which supports links and loads JPEGS , PNGS, GIFS and SWFS .



• Purchase Here

5+ Flash Developer Blogs To Subscribe To

Finding a good Flash Blog as a developer is sometimes hard to find. Here are a couple that I keep stashed in my RSS Reader.

Quick View Portfolio

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  - Flex Framework, Actionscript 3.0, mySQL, PHP

  
  


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  - Practicing the Flex Framework which in the end turned into project. This is a quick portfolio view of work which is pulled out of a database using mySQL and PHP.

  
  


• Launch

kreativeKING Website - Full Wordpress Version

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  - WordPress, XHTML, CSS

  
  


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  - New theme to create a better user experience as well as create an aesthetically pleasing layout and design. Website features a static home page with a portfolio section and blog. All powered by WordPress.

  
  


• Launch

AS3 Basic Preloader Class

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  - Actionscript 3.0



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  - A basic calls to build preloaders from. It is meant to act as a starting point to build more advanced preloaders. It is available for free download



• Download Here

XMLLoader Class

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  - Actionscript 3.0



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  - This Actionscript 3.0 Class allows for multiple XML files to be loaded and stored for future use by way of a name or index number. I use this class in all of my XML powered projects.



• Download Here


• Watch ScreenCast

New Site Redesign

Hey readers, I'm happy to finally debut the site redesign. A platoon of new features have been added that take advantage of WordPress 2.7 newest features.

Interview with Scott Willis ( FlashDen )

An interview I did with Scott over @FlashDen just released today. It's a pretty good interview and I enjoyed answering all the questions. The interview is mainly about the NYC Flash Developers Happy Hour meetup I often attend run by Jesse Freeman. Make sure to add him on twitter @TheFlashBum. It's a Flash User group here in the big Apple that runs a meeting every once or twice a month. If you happen to be in the New York City area, please stop by and have a good time.

Check out the Interview Here

Interning @ Marvel

Yes I now have an internship for the Summer. I got the call earlier today confirming my Intern Position at Marvel Entertainment.I'll be helping out with the Flash projects they re currently working on. I'm soooo excited. I'll keep you all posted on my Marvelous Adventures. =D

XMLLoader 3.0 Update

Fixed a small bug that was confusing the names and actual data. Link in the last post has been updated to the bug fixed version. This is just a courtesy posy to the ones who have already downloaded the class to download it again. Enjoy and keep me updated on bugs you may find or features you would like in the future.

I'm always available @cg219.


Download Link

New XMLLoader 3.0 Release

I have finally gotten around to updating the XMLLoader Class now, in its 3rd Release. With this release comes a couple new properties such as bytesLoaded, bytesTotal, totalItems, currentItem and ratioLoaded. The biggest update is the new naming feature. With this feature you can now give each XML file a name to reference it. Also in the big boat of updates is the new way of handling errors.

Flex for Free!!

I rarely re post a blog that has already been posted, but in this case I think I will. I'm sure everyone already knows about the student program to get a free copy of Flex. If you are a student you can just submit your student I.D and get a free serial. For those who don't know. Check out this link. Now according to Mr. Lee Brimelow, there is a second program tht allows developers to get a free copy if they are out of work. HOW COOL!!, Adobe is thinking about the little guys =D.

AS3 Basic Preloader Class

I been thinking of ways to preload things in AS3 like you would in AS2. Meaning a simple drag and drop and it preloads. I unfortunately couldn't come to a solution of just drag and drop. But I have gotten pretty damn close. Last night I started working on a Basic Preloader Class in which I can build more complex preloaders off of. Just like some of the classes in my VIdeoPlayer API, the Base Class gets replaced with BasicPreloader to give it its functionality.

Tutorial Published in Web Designer Magazine

Just would like to let everyone know to pick up the 155th issue of Web Designer Magazine. I have been published AGAIN!! What a great feeling to see your words in a publication. Anyway, I wrote a Papervision 3D tutorial for beginning PV3D users. It is an interactive 3D Menu. By the time you get through the complete tutorial, you will know most of the basic tools for creating 3D scenes in PV3D. This isn't a tutorial on the Great White version of Papervision, This is on the newest release of PV3D which I recommend everyone get.

Here is a link to get your issue.

TweenLite Family and gTween Are Getting Married

My favorite Tweening engine is uniting with another popular engine, gTween. Just checked my email to hear the fascinating news. Jack Greensock and Grant Skinner, both renowned in the Flash community have decided to put there heads together and make a Powerhouse Tweening engine which should be better than both. I myself am looking forward to this union. I never had the chance to use gTween alone because I was so hooked on TweenLite, but I know the newest version borrowed some of gTweens features such as shortRotation. There is also a beta version out that can be found on Jack's site.

New kreativeKING VideoPlayer API

I finally released the kreativeKING Videoplayer API. I'm sure you all remember the old VideoViewer and ProgressionBar classes. Well this new set of API does away with those and replaces with a plethora of new classes to make your video player creating processes much easier. Spend more time on design than on programming. Some of the 10+ classes released are VideoWindow ( Replacement of the VideoViewer Class ), VideoPanel ( ProgressionBar replacement) and the VideoControl Classes. These are the main 3 classes that you will be using to the video players logic. I will post later on a short tutorial on creating a video player using the API.

New AS3 Tutor

Woot!!!, just a really small post. You are reading this post from the new AS3 Tutor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. I actually got the good news a couple days ago, but I would like to share it with the world =D.

In addition, if anyone needs any help with Actionscript 3.0 or needs a private tutor, don't hesitate to drop me an email. In the next coming days I have some interesting things to post about ranging from new FlashDen products to new published articles. So be on the lookout for those, or you know what is even better?? Just subscribe and I'll let you know. =D Happy Flashing people.

Javascript and Actionscript Conversation

This weekend my good friend Peter Panton asked my for some help setting up some communication between Javascript and Actionscript. He wanted to be able to get the scroll value of the HTML page and use it in Flash. To be honest, I never did any kind of communication between the two and had no idea where to start. I did some research and came across the ExternalInterface Class.

On Twitter

This is pretty much just a shameless plug. To follow along on up to the second information on my workings and such, check out my twitter. Popularity nowadays are based on the amount of followers you have =D. SO come on people, make me popular.

My Twitter: http://twitter.com/cg219

New QuickView Portfolio Mini Site

I have been applying for alot of freelance jobs lately and I don't really have a portfolio up showcasing my flash skills. I usually just forward them here to my blog but I don't think employers have any patience to sift through the posts. So I decided to make a little mini site that has links to my various works. It is all built in flex ( Yup, I'm learning MXML and I must say..... I like it).

Now a PUBLISHED AUTHOR

I was looking in Barnes and Noble, checking out the usual magazines I always do. I happen to come across the new Flash and Flex magazine and take a look at the table of contents to see my name in bold letters. To say I was excited would be an understatement. I completely forgot that I submitted an article to FFD introducing my XMLLoader Class. Its a very good article and tutorial and I suggest anyone t check it out. Another well known author in this issue is, flash community guru, Lee Brimelow. It feels good to actually see your name in a magazine. Hopefully it will not be the last.

AIRUploader Preview

I know I haven't been posting as frequently as I used to, but I have good reason. The AIRUploader is one of those reasons. This is a project I have been working on in the past week and a half. It started out as just practice for learning how to use the FileReference class, but then grew to be muuuuuuch more.
This application is essentially a drag and drop FTP Uploader. I sometimes hate uploading files. Signing in, looking for directories, etc etc. So I decided to make this application. It will save your login information so you don't have to keep entering your information.