Ryan Caillouet's Flash Blog

Actionscript 3 Equalizer – Audio Visualizer

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:05:04 +0000

An equalizer simply put is a visual representation of a song. This is something I always thought was a cool feature for the flash player, so I thought I’d create my own version. Download Source Files Here: http://www.elipticdesigns.com/flash/ex/audiovisual/equalizer.zip Basically what you need to understand is on an [...]

Actionscript 3 Custom Scrollbar

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:09:34 +0000

Everyone always seems to be in need of a scrollbar class so I thought I’d take the time to make my own. In case you don’t care to read anything and simply want the goods. Download the Source Files Here: http://www.elipticdesigns.com/flash/ex/scrollbar/scrollbar.zip The ultimate goal of a scrollbar is somehow calculate a percentage from 0% to [...]

Getters and Setters

admin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:10:32 +0000

Getters and Setters are a very powerful tool in as3. A Getter is a function that “reads” or “returns” a value (usually a variable with your class), and a Setter is a function that “writes” or “changes” a value (usually the same variable). Basically you get the ability to define the read/write of a variable. [...]

AS3 Hashmap – Arraymap

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:35 +0000

For a while I’ve been using classes I find online called “Hashmaps” which is basically a bunch of functions hooked up to a dictionary to manage keys/values. The only problem I have found is that when you try to retrieve all the items from your dictionary into an array, it won’t always been in the [...]

Actionscript Distance Between 2 Longitude Latitude Points

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:19:58 +0000

Recently I’ve been doing alot of Google Maps stuff in flash, and have needed this more than once. This will give you the distance in miles or km between 2 Longitude and Latitude Points. function getLatLngDistance($lat1:Number, $lng1:Number, $lat2:Number, $lng2:Number, $miles:Boolean=true):Number{ var pi80:Number = Math.PI/180; $lat1 *= pi80; $lng1 *= pi80; $lat2 *= pi80; $lng2 *= [...]

Multiple Textfield Text Randomizer

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:45:50 +0000

So you’ve probably seen these before, but this is my own version. This is one of those text effects you see where the textfields reveals with random letters. Download the Source File Here: http://www.elipticdesigns.com/flash/ex/textRandomizer/TextRandomizer.zip

Multiple ways to declare variables

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:13:32 +0000

When declaring variables like objects or arrays, there is more than 1 way to declare them. I’m not exactly sure which way is faster, but I have used both scenarios in a variety of occasions. I’m putting this here just to help clarify they mean the same thing. //Object Declaration 1 var objData:Object = new [...]

Actionscript naming Conventions

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:10:29 +0000

Everyone seems to know the feeling of being lost knee deep in a mess of code. By using naming conventions you can help reduce the clutter….or at least organize your variables. Here are some improvements that may help to keep your sanity. 1st Line: wrong way 2nd Line: right way Numbers: use “num” var thing:Number [...]

Optimizing a For loop

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:01:02 +0000

Alot of the time I spend developing flash, I’m always looking for ways to optimize my code and make it run faster. Take for instance the following code. var arrStuff:Array = new Array(); arrStuff.push({label:"thing1"}); arrStuff.push({label:"thing2"}); for(var i:int=0; i