Pete Shand

It would be great to add a way to track trace events. when testing flash within the browser its nice to be able to see the trace output. currently there are ways to do this with plugins for firefox or air apps from De MonsterDebugger, but sometime your testing on someone elses computer who don’t [...]

Here’s a nice little circle pre-loader class created recently. All you really need to do is add it to the stage and then update its percent value (between 0 and 1) on a ProgressEvent or whatever event you want really. There are also two optional values that [...]

If you’re at all familiar with video within flash you’ll know that there is no built in functionality to play a video in reverse. The reason for this is quite simple. When a video is encoded regardless of the codec or the wrapper format some frames are [...]

While creating 3d environments within flash you are currently limited in the way you get user mouse input. In your traditional first person shooters moving the mouse will turn the view left and right, up and down. The problem you face within flash is that once the mouse hits the edge of the movie or [...]

I recently posted a TextToSpeech as3 interface class which you can view here. Basically you pass it a string and it will read it out loud. Today I’ve added an easy way to increase the accessibility of your flash microsite without having to go through the whole [...]

Ever wanted to add text to speech functionality to your Actionscript project? Well now you can thanks to this cool little as3 class I wrote last night. So how does it work? Google hasn’t released an official API for their text to speech engine, however if you query: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=this%20is%20a%20test an mp3 will be produced which [...]