Labs Jaap Kooiker AKA Flashcoders - Flash, Flex, AIR, IPhone

The last couple of years my work with flash is more or less occupied by programming actionscript. I’ve learned to do everything with actionscript, from working on and with the Custom MVC framework we have at TFE, to tweening, using the drawing API and so on. Today a colleague of mine reminded me of the power (and flaws) of old school timeline tweening and masking. Since I totally shut my mind of this “old school” stuff I needed some convincing, so I tried it out.

Turns out very nice results can be achieved in a simple way.
Since I build more like applications, I always had much respect for the websites with trees or flowers growing from scratch. Now I have made a simple but (as I might say) nice example of what can be done with simple timeline tweening and masking.

Check it out : Old school tweening and let me know what you think of it.

So there you have it… when used right, timeline tweening can also be cool.

Jaap Kooiker

Just the same as last experiment, but now with blur…

Check it out : TextFill V 2

Jaap Kooiker

Some time ago at my work we asked ourselfs why there isn’t a service wich we can call to get the version number of the latest player available for download. Well today I found out there is!

http://fpdownload.macromed…xpress/version_win_ax.xml

This URL will return a XML with only the latest flash player version.

Jaap Kooiker

As followup to my previous post I used that to create an automatic shoutbox, in this example the words are hard coded in the swf but it’s easy to make it XML driven.

Check it out here: Shoutbox

As usual, if you want the code…drop me a line.

Jaap Kooiker

Some time ago I saw an experiment wich I don’t remember where it was. Anyway, I recreated it and resulted in a very fun and simple experiment. While the circles are placed random they avoid collision.
Here it is : Circles.

If you wan’t the source, drop me a line….

Jaap Kooiker