http://www.stevenloe.com Flash, Flex, & iPhone Development Fri, 21 May 2010 15:59:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overview There are lots of posts out there about flash and crossdomain.xml. Here's the post I wish I'd found when I went googling: The flash player has a built-in security model that is designed to prevent cross-domain attacks where a flash application is used to perform an attack. The player's ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2010/05/21/flash-as3-crossdomainxml-care-feeding/ Assignment: Floral designer Susannah Burley needed a web site to support her new wedding and event floral business in Denver: Posey Girl Flowers. She needed a clean, simple site that would show off her imaginative floral designs to advantage. Challenge: Create a very easy-to-use site that features her elegant, playful wedding ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/07/15/web-design-posey-girl/ I've been interested in creating a rolling shape type of sprite with ActionScript Physics Engine for use in a game. —A shape that could be moved around a landscape by rolling a weighted wheel particle around inside it. While building this, I discovered that the spring constraints in APE are ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/06/08/ape-creating-an-elliptical-scaffold/ Recently I was using ActionScript Physics Engine to create a simple 2-D arcade-style game. I looked into building an elliptical spring constraint in APE to serve as the boundaries of the game. In the end I decided not to use the elliptical boundaries, but they are easy enough to ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/05/26/ape-collision-within-an-elliptical-spring-constraint/ I've created a quick demo with APE that allows the user to draw rectangle particles with the mouse. New wheel particles are created every 2 seconds. Particles are removed if they fall outside the stage area so that the demo will not leak memory. [kml_flashembed movie="/projects/flash/draw_with_ape/ape_draw_rectangles.swf" width="600" height="500" fversion="9.0" ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/05/18/drawing-with-actionscript-physics-engine/ I don't do a lot of web design these days. I spend most of my time coding. But I was recently at a client site finishing up an ActionScript 3 project. They were in a pinch and I was asked to whip up some quick screen designs for a web-based ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/05/16/web-design-zip-project/ Here's a game built with the AS3 ActionScript Physics Engine. It's easy to create a simple a car physics game with APE. Here's my go at it: Kinetic Car Park. Make the car fly through the air and land in the parking space. Click the game to give it focus, ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/04/23/ape-actionscript-physics-engine/ Here's a Flash MVC slideshow in ActionScript 3. My goal here was to keep the code clean while adding the features the customer wanted: unobtrusive controls, drop shadows, optional info text, and smooth cross-fades between images. The MVC pattern makes keeping the code organized easy while TweenLite makes all ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/04/20/as3-model-view-controller-slide-show/ I recently broke my "don't buy old Macs" rule. I picked up a Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" Dual 800 on craigslist for $130 for the system, complete with keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Ordinarily I wouldn't go vintage mac like this, but this machine will be for the neighbor kids to ... http://www.stevenloe.com/2009/04/17/osx-wifi-usb/