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Here in Belgium we have to build most of our flash projects in different languages, so most text is loaded from xml or databases. But sometimes its not possible to use dynamic text so we have different movieclips in our library displaying the same content but in an other language.
example: Home_nl, Home_fr, Home_en
It would be easy if we can create an actionscript function that will automatically display the right movieclip.
I found following solution:
function addHome(language:String):void{
var classLinkage:Class = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName(”home_”+language) as Class;
var home:MovieClip = new classLinkage() as MovieClip;
addChild(home)
}
addHome(”nl”);
To use my example you need in your library a mc with linkage class name: home_nl
I had this post quiet long in draft but never found time to finish it. In the meanwhile one of my friends at multimediacollege just published a great explanation on the topic at their blog.
Last years i have been doing flash training with Adobe authorized training material, after the launch of CS3 Adobe decided to stop making new courseware. So for flash cs3 we tried some other course material but i was always missing the more global picture of creating flash projects, next to that i think that most as3.0 courses are to much focussing on building ria’s.
So i’m thinking about creating a course focussed on flash projects targeted for online marketing. I will be targeting flash developers and designer with a basic knowledge of actionscript.
Some basic ideas for an outline are:
Feel free to make additions or remarks on this basic outline.
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Last months i have playing with the combination of wiimotes and flash. Biggest problem was connecting the wiimote with the pc or mac.
Last week i discovered a wiiflash server build for mac, this make stuff a lot easier. Connect your wiimote to your mac now take seconds.
In an hour or 2 i build this little google maps browser in flex controlled by a wiimote and using the wiiflash api (prerelease 0.4).
Below you can find the start and solution files of my multi-mania presentation of last week.
They’re both Flex archive files.
Start files: multimania_air_playingwithapis_start
Solution files: multimania_air_playingwithapis_working
Very nice and inspiring day at Multi-Mania. My session went down very well, a little bit short but i had a great time.
We started the day with an Adobe keynote presented by Serge and Jason. Serge showed briefly flash cs4, Jason showed us the speech to text function that may or may be not in future version of Premiere.
Aral gave an inspirring session about “Ruling the web in 32 steps“. End conclusion as a flash developer we have to learn the web.
Next “We are Hoox”. Not the most interesting session for me but amasing what you can do with maps and 3D.
Next up Wim Vanhenden with “Having fun with FLASH and AIR”. Realy cool (Wims middle name) session, what i liked was that somebody is showing that you still can use Flash for making trendy apps.
I ended the day conference day with “pixel whisperer”, Mario Klingeman. Amazing stuff what you can with graphics and mathematics.
At the award show the mct and dae students showed their best work. Keynote speaker Hoss Gifford gave amusing show of his latest work. Lesson learned: Narrative and simple.
I’m not going to talk about the after party and the after after party. But i had a very nice time with a lot of beers and champagne (thx for that Hoss).
Koen, Klaus, Wouter, Christel, Ellen, Claudia, Jynse and the rest of the crew did an amazing job!
Edison asked our partners in crime Syntetik to put the ecologic coffee brand Java in the picture. More people deliver more brain and programming fingers so we happily joined forces with Syntetik.
The logo of the Rainforest Alliance, a little frog, quickly got our mind thinking about psychedelic colors (no we didn’t kissed our little green friends) so we decided to give the frogs a voice and some different natural and not so natural colors. At opkikkernodig.be you can create your own frog, grab some free coffee, win a trip to Costa Rica for 2 and even send your “pink” frog to your friends.
I have never been a in a god believing person but when the guys of Resilion asked me to join forces to build a website for “catholic” children there was no moment of doubt. After a few months of meetings, initial sketches and a lot of brainstorming we started the well known production rush to deliver the project. Wednesday 7th of May the Belgium cardinal and some kids presented the project to the press.
I’m always getting an adrenalin kick when delivering a project, but seeing those kids playing and praising our project was amazing.
What i really like is how the Flemish catholic church is webmastering this site. Kids can always have a confidential talk with a pedagogue. Group chats are always moderated and there is absolutely no direct communication between the visitors of the site, making this site a save place for kids to express their thoughts.
Visit www.nabbi.be