Jamin Ruhren :: Art Direction & Web Design » Workshopped Problems

Inspire your color schemes

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:18:33 +0000

Provides color schemes by theme, images anything. I found it very useful!

www.colourlovers.com

Twitter in Flash : actionscript 2.0

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:29:38 +0000

So, on my new portfolio site I wanted to incorporate Twitter within in it. Twitter, however changed their crossdomain.xml so you can not just load into your flash movie the rss feed. As a work around someone wrote a PHP script that totally solved my problem. You can see the code and how it works here http://blog.slawcup.com/2007/04/full-twitter-php-library-ver-01/.

Display Streaming FLV time in minutes and seconds with ActionScript 2.0

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:36:18 +0000

So I always get questions about streaming FLV players. For special effects like the fire on Acidbetty.com or intro movies and simple embedded flv video players. So one issue I came up with was displaying the length of the video and also the current frame of the video in regard to minutes and seconds.

So the actionscript code below is the code I used to display current time playing and the total time of video. ie: 1:32 / 2:45.

// Progress Bar Function and Counter Functions
progressBar.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._width = bw*ns.time/ns.totalTime;

//TOTAL TIME
myTime = (ns.totalTime);
myTime = String(myTime);
var Ttime:Number = Math.floor(Number(ns.totalTime));
var minutes:Number = Math.floor(Ttime/60);
var seconds = Math.floor(Ttime%60);
var frames = Math.floor(Ttime%24);
if (seconds<10) {
seconds = (“0″+seconds);
}

//CURRENT PLAYING TIME
myTime2 = (ns.time);
myTime2 = String(myTime2);
var Ttime2:Number = Math.floor(Number(ns.time));
var minutes2:Number = Math.floor(Ttime2/60);
var seconds2 = Math.floor(Ttime2%60);
var frames2 = Math.floor(Ttime2%24);
if (seconds2<10) {
seconds2 = (“0″+seconds2);
}
//Now a Dynamic Text Box with Var: counter will display right
counter = minutes2+”:”+seconds2+” / “+minutes+”:”+seconds
};

Need that missing font? Its prolly here!

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:17:27 +0000

Dafont.com has everything you will need plus thousands more!

Flash to the Core :: where I learned it all

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:19:17 +0000

I am not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing, but I got my start in Flash design right here, this book by Joshua Davis.

Flash to the Core and me were best friends one COLD winter and little did I know that I would become obsessed with Actionscript and Flash and actually make my living with it. Thanks Josh!

ActionScript 2 & 3 Flash PHP MySQL Panel Extension

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:57:52 +0000

I found this great Extension for Flash that makes life SO MUCH EASIER!!!

For those designers how tend to spend too much time trying to get their heads around the programming side and how your flash is going to communicate with the MySQL database.

This is the answer:
ActionScript 2 & 3 Flash PHP MySQL Panel Extension
I used this extension with my high score board in When Pigs Fly. And it worked like a charm!

You can try it out for free. I recommend it!