In this sample, full-commented, we’ll use the FlashPlayer 10 3D features to display a list of Video Thumbnails enabling the Mouse Click Event to enlarge them changing their z and rotationY properties.
We’ll use Caurina Tween to perform 3d animations, so download them and copy the caurina package in your project folder before test this sample (they are not included inside the source files)

The Adobe User Group flex-developers.org invite you at Flex camp on the beach (Milano Marittima), a free one day gathering with food, drinks, coding and time with the Flex engineers covering the most desired topics about the upcoming release of Flex 4 and Flash Catalist.
Speakers and topics are great, so you must join it!!
Matt Chotin
Adam Flater (http://adamflater.blogspot.com/)
Michael Labriola (http://blogs.digitalprimates.net/codeSlinger/)
Rich Tretola (http://blog.everythingflex.com)
Michael Plank (www.powerflasher.de)
Jaco Pixeldump (pixeldump.org)
Giorgio Natili     (flex-developers.org)
John Lindquist (http://pv3d.org, http://flex4.org)
Joost Nuijten
Eros Marcon     (actionscript.it)
Simon Slooten (www.simonslooten.com)
Matteo Lanzi  aka Gallo_Teo (flex-developers.org)
Gabriele Farina
Alessandro Crugnola aka Sephiroth
USEFUL …

The company I’m working for, GNStudio (Italy), is looking for a Flex Developer with at least 2 years experience and a fluent english (we hope better than mine;) to join our team.
We’ll need it from september 2009 for 3 months and the office presence is not required.
The official announcement is published in italian language on LavoriCreativi.com

In this post I’ll provide you just a quick way to change a TextField font family at runtime using ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Cs3/4 getting your embedded fonts from the Library .

When Actionscript 3.0 was a dream and all Flash developers worked with AS2 the _global property was a smart and fast way to share variables between swf files.
A classic scenario is the following:
1) In the main swf file there is the language selection and users can make their choice selecting the site language
2) This swf probably will have a menu to load different pages, each one with their content and galleries to load.
3) Every loaded page will need to know the selected language value to load the right content (for example …

Two of the most popular questions when loading SWF files in Flash CSx / AS3 are:

how to call a method in the loaded swf from the Main document class
how to reference at the main document class to call a method from the the loaded swf.

In this post I’ll provide you a quick and easy sample to cover both situations.
This is not the best way to accomplish this task but it’s very easy to understand and use.

So what we’ll do?
1) We’ll load the file Page.swf inside Main.swf clicking on …

In our community forum many people asked us info about the fullscreen feature, so following a quick sample to use it in Flash CS 3/4 and ActionScript 3.0.
To enabled / disable it you just need too:
1) Modify the displayState property to StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN costant to enable it, and to StageDisplayState.NORMAL to come back to “normal” modality
2) Enable the ‘allowfullscreen’ attribute in your html code
Click on the button below to try it:
This movie requires Flash Player 10

swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.fabiobiondi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/fullscreenflcs4.swf”, “swf3dec1″, “400″, “120″, “10.0.0″, “”, {}, {wmode: “window”, menu: “false”, quality: “high”, bgcolor: “#FFFFFF”, allowFullScreen: “true”}, {});

Read …

In the market are existing a lot of Tween libraries to help Flash/Flex developers to build cool actionscript animation making their life easier, like TweenLite/ TweenMax or Caurina Tweener.
These libraries included cool stuff not provided from the default AS3 tween class like colors animation, animated drop, blur, shadow effect and much more.
So, in this post, i want to show you another tween engine, Tweensy, that provide a lot of cool bitmap and particle effects like smoke, fire and other “magical” stuff

I was playing with the Flex Google Map API and I think one of the coolest stuff is the Direction feature.
In few words, you can do a query like this: “from Milano to Torino” and you’ll get:
1) Distance
2) Trip duration
3) The complete travel displayed on Google Map
4) Many other usefull info (check GoogleMap website to get the API reference and other samples)
In this script I simulate a Store Locator, where user digits its city in a TextInput and at the same time he can selects a store from a List.
Each time user will …

Problem: customize the HSlider / VSlider skin and add the handcursor to the track icon
Solution: create two skin actionscript classes to customize the trackSkin and a thumbSkin styles
Final SWF Output:
This movie requires Flash Player 10

swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.fabiobiondi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/slidersample.swf”, “swf3dec2″, “450″, “170″, “10.0.0″, “”, {}, {wmode: “window”, menu: “false”, quality: “high”, bgcolor: “#FFFFFF”, allowFullScreen: “true”}, {});