Posts Tagged ‘flash’
Posted on March 25, 2009 - by CDS
Corvus Awards & Recognition
We wanted to thank everyone for the great feedback to our new website. We submitted it to all the award and recognition sites and got great feedback. Instead of doing a single post for all of the additional recognition we’ve received, we’ve put together a list below with links to the award and compilation sites. The admins of these great sites were kind enough to add us, so we’d like to return the favor by linking to them and maybe bringing a little traffic.
Award & Mixed Sites:
Web Design Awards, Design of the Day, view our award
My Design Award, view our award
RGB Garden Garden of the Day, view our recognition post
HTTP Artist, view our recognition post
The Design Gene, view our recognition post
CSS Sites:
CSS Star, view our recognition post
Creamy CSS, view our recognition post
CSS Mania, view our recognition post
CSS Design Yorkshire, march 2009 entry
CSS Style.me, view our recognition post
One CSS, view our recognition post
CSS Based, view our rcognition post
CSS Burst, view our recognition post
CSS Scoop, view our recognition post
eCSSited, view our recognition post
Swell CSS, view our recognition post
CSS Illustrated, view our recognition post
CSS Impress, view our recognition post
Your Site is Valid, view our recognition post
CSS Elite, view our recognition post
CSS Heaven, view our recognition post
I hope I didn’t leave anyone out, but if I did, this list will be ammended accordingly. Thanks everyone for the positive feedback!
Posted on December 21, 2008 - by CDS
Tips & Tricks: Flash LoadMovie trick
I discovered a little trick to bypass the problem of buttons on flash layers being active through the layers. If you’ve used the loadmovie function in flash to open external flash movies in layers (or not in layers), you’ve no doubt encountered the “click-through” glitch. Well, I can think of times you may want that effect so maybe it’s not a glitch, but I think in most cases you don’t want buttons from layer 0 to be active when layer 1 is viewable. My problem was that I was using layers, but not for every movie loaded. And the movies on the middle layer would change at a specific time of day, and because the same references were being used on layers 0 and 1, standard disable and enable coding would not work. I tried variations of the following:
_parent.button.enabled=0;
_parent.button.enabled=1;
_level0.button.enabled=0;
_level0.button.enabled=1;
and more etc…
Because of my level issues, only the disable function would work completely. And, then there was always the problem of doing this for every button, which would become cumbersome. I could of course used an array to apply to all buttons, but I wanted something even simpler… a graphical solution.
Here is what I did. Buttons in flash work in heirarchy. A button on a higher layer or that is arranged in front of another button will basically block any buttons behind it. So, in the movies that were being loaded on top, I made one button that encompassed the entire stage, set the alpha to 0%, named the button “hidden_btn” and added the following AS to the timeline:
hidden_btn.useHandCursor = false;
It’s essentially a hidden button that does not turn the cursor to hand, so nobody knows it’s even there. Not only did this work perfect, it saved me the trouble of all the additional AS for every button, etc. I only need to copy and paste one movieclip and one line of AS to the external movies. This may not work in every situation, but it’s an easy and effective method for simple loadmovie functions.
The final result can be viewed at http://www.baxterclare.com
Posted on August 27, 2008 - by CDS
Latest Project: Even Newer JJM Photo
We’re happy to announce an even newer, more expanded flash website for JJM Photo (our lead artists photo website). This site is a Flash/XML utilizing true full screen with scalable images. We’re quite pleased with the outcome. This will be an every-growing gallery of nature photography (and maybe some other things, too). Jessica recently acquired a 300mm f/4.0 L IS Canon lens and will be practicing quite a bit with it! Please check out the site and feel free to leave your feedback here.
Launch JJM Photo (best viewed at 1920×1200 or other widescreen resolution, in full screen mode)
Posted on July 19, 2008 - by CDS
Latest Project: JJM Photo Revamp
Our latest project is a clean, minimalist flash/xml site showcasing my own nature photography, http://www.jjmphoto.com. For a long time I wanted to do a fullscreen horizontal scrolling website, and I decided my own project would be a perfect candidate.
Posted on June 28, 2008 - by CDS
Latest Project: Fiona Bleu Gallery, Morro Bay
Fiona Bleu Gallery in Morro Bay, California, is a coloroful gallery of mixed mediums and styles. We just finished Fiona Bleu’s revamped Flash/XML/XHTML/CSS website. New features include an interactive room designer, featuring actual items from Fiona Bleu, comprehensive Flash galleries with custom photography, and extended gallery categories. http://www.fionableu.com
