Jan 27 2010

IE opacity filter – another reason to hate IE

Ran into some hair-tearing problem with IE again. This time with its opacity filter. Apparently, you have to declare the width and height of the element where you are applying the filter for it to work even though a block element is suppose to get its width and height from its contents, at least, that’s [...]


Nov 15 2009

Retro coloured strips background in Photoshop

strips
Here, i will show you how to create a retro coloured strips background in photoshop that’s useful for quick banner, web site header designs. I’m using Photoshop CS3 in this tutorial.


Sep 17 2009

AS3 Preloader Listener not firing in Internet Explorer

The ProgressEvent and loaderInfo listener does not fire in IE 6 and 7 during the preloading of a swf’s main timeline. It works fine the first time thought, but upon subsequent reload of the page either through refreshing the page, or through accessing the page from some other webpage in the same browser window, the [...]


Jun 23 2009

Global functions in AS3

Setting a global function with AS 3.0.


Apr 14 2009

AS3 stageHeight and stageWidth return 0 at runtime

Any experienced flash developer will know that flash contrary to popular belief do not behave the same throughout all browser. From time to time you get frustrating bug that’s never mentioned in any documentation and this bug that grayed a few strand of my hairs is one of them.
If you need to place a movieclip [...]