The high points for me were Mario Klingemann’s “2D or not 2D, that is the question” talk about working with BitmapData. He showed how to make a “Magic Wand” tool a la photoshop. His process was impressive to say the least, and I’m very interested in playing with the paletteMap method of the BitmapData class.

The session from André Michelle was amazing, he demoed his PopForge sound synthesis engine. Generating sound entirely within flash at run-time. See the video below, this is all generated and manipulated in flash. It’s simply amazing, I can’t wait to get some time (after this post) to start messing around with sound in flash.

There were lots of other talks that were brilliant, Jared Tarbell, Eric Natzke, Craig Swann, they were all very inspiring to watch and listen to. I also went to a few more technical talks, Grant Skinner’s actionscript 3.0 talk was good, as was Ted Patrick’s Flex worst practices talk. Though I don’t use flex (well, rarely) it was still a good talk that highlighted some very important points about the development process for me.

I’ve just found some videos I filmed of André Michelle talking about popforge, see below

Again it’s easy to implement, you have to make a few small changes to the HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Firstly, you have to remove the !DOCTYPE declaration from the very top of the HTML document, as, for some reason, this causes the browser to scroll, even though the flash container is set to 100% height. Then modify the CSS so the the html’s overflow is set to auto. Also, the #flashcontent div needs to have it’s positioning set to absolute, this stops Safari on Mac OS from showing the vertical scrollbar.
[css]
html {
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}

#flashcontent {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
[/css]

In the javascript, do the following:
[js]
var so = new SWFObject(‘flash.swf’, ‘website’, ’100%’, ’100%’, ’8′, ‘#333333′);

so.useExpressInstall(‘js/expressinstall.swf’);

so.addParam(‘menu’, ‘false’);
so.addParam(‘scale’, ‘noscale’);
so.addParam(‘salign’, ‘lt’);

if( so.write(‘flashcontent’) )
{
var forcesize = new SWFForceSize( so, 900, 600 );
}
[/js]

When you call the ‘SWFForceSize’ constructor, the last two arguments are the minimum width and height of the movie, in this case the minimum size is 900×600 px.

Download SWFForceSize here.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/

It’s straight forward to implement. Download SWFMacMouseWheel here.

Within ActionScript, you’ll barely notice any difference. Only that instead of using Mouse.addListener(), you’ll refer to my class instead.

Example code:

[as]
import com.pixelbreaker.ui.MouseWheel;

class Example
{

function Example(){
MouseWheel.addListener( this );
}

public function onMouseWheel( delta:Number ):Void
{
// do something with the delta value
}
}

[/as]

All the javascript is included in the zip, with an example html file.

You simply have to add one line of code to the javascript:

[js]
var so = new SWFObject(‘test.swf’, ‘website’, ’100%’, ’100%’, ’8′, ‘#FFFFFF’);

so.useExpressInstall(‘js/expressinstall.swf’);

so.addParam(‘menu’, ‘false’);
so.addParam(‘scale’, ‘noscale’);
so.addParam(‘salign’, ‘lt’);

// CHANGE BELOW
if( so.write(‘flashcontent’) )
{
var macmousewheel = new SWFMacMouseWheel( so );
}
[/js]

This lib is aimed at Flash Developers who predominantly work on animation intensive sites, rather than application development.