With the recent release of AIR 2.7, I thought it would be a good idea to return to the basics of efficient code. While the performance is greatly improved on mobile and desktop, it’s still the coders responsibility to stick to best practices and avoid performance killers. The same is true for Flash inside a browser (Flash Player [...]
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In a previous post, Flying Postcards and Tweening – 3D Billboard Tutorial demonstrated the use of tweening 3D rotation properties to achieve 3D-like effect. This time I aim at creating a more complex fly-in of an image in 3D space by leveraging 2D techniques like blitting on top of a rotating postcard to achieve a complex 3D effect.
READ MORE »I needed a simple spark button with only an icon – basically a bitmap made into a button. The problem is that I have lots of these buttons, each with a different icon – and all the skin samples use hard-coded assets. UPDATE: The new Flex 4.5 Hero has this feature built in, as described in [...]
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