Archive for Videos
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Layout for Silverlight User Interfaces
Silverlight lays out user interface elements in Panels with various capabilities ranging from fixed, pixel-based layout through to flexible, fluid designs. You can make use of the existing layout mechanisms or build your own Panels to supplement what’s available. Let’s take a look at what...
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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two
By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these exper...
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Using AS3XLS with the Flex Framework: Excel Import
This tutorial will cover implementation of the AS3XLS ActionScript 3.0 library for the Flex framework. We will demonstrate loading an Excel .xls file into Flash and parsing the data into a Flex datagrid. View Screencast Don’t like ads? Download the screencast, or subscribe to Activetuts+ s...
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Silverlight and XAML
XAML is a key part of Silverlight development – it allows you to declaratively define your user interface and it makes it easy for tools such as Visual Studio and Expression Blend to share that UI definition. In this video we take a look at some of the key features of XAML that you’ll encounter ...
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Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day One
There’s been a sense of confusion in our industry lately. Standards are changing and there is a lot of discussion about where Flash fits in the future of the web. As a kind of therapy I decided to check out the FITC San Francisco and so far, I’ve found exactly what I was looking for.. I...
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Flash for Android: Flixel Frogger on Nexus One and HTC Evo
In this screencast I show off how Frogger, which I built using Flixel, runs on a Nexus One with Android 2.2 and a HTC EVO running 2.1. Both play the same but the EVO feels more responsive due to the better touch response and larger screen. Screencast: Frogger Don’t like ads? Download the s...
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Packaging Silverlight Applications
Silverlight applications are simple in that there’s an HTML page that launches the plug-in and a packaging file format (XAP) for the code and resources themselves. Here, we take a quick look at how those applications are packaged and how we go from HTML page to running Silverlight code on the scre...
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Quick Tip: Make Grunge Type with Live Trace and the Pathfinder
Starting with a photo, learn how to create vector texture with Live Trace, then apply it to text for a grunge type effect. You can find the wood texture used in this tutorial at "More Than 350 Free and Premium Wood Textures" on PSDtuts+ ...
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Flash for Android: Introduction to BitmapScroller
This is an introduction to my BitmapScroller class. I’ll explain how to get it up and running with ANT and FDT. Section 1: BitmapScroller and ANT The BitmapScroller class allows you to scroll multiple bitmaps as if they were a single image. I have used it on several sites, most noteworthy b...
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Use Illustrator and Photoshop to Create a 3D String of Pills – Screencast
Designers often use both Illustrator and Photoshop to create a scene or graphic. Today we will combine both of these powerful applications to create a 3-dimensional pill and then create a composite image using these elements. Let’s get started! Resources Used The following resources were used ...
