Well, the result is quite good if you consider the fact that it took 30 minutes approximately for me to create it. It’s a little buggy on the edges, and it doesn’t respond well on fast mouse movements. But I think it’s a good start? What do you think . You can always make suggestions.

Dowload .fla

Πάει καιρός από τότε που δημοσίευσα κάτι σ’ αυτό το blog. Μεσολάβησαν διακοπές, εξεταστικές και πολλά άλλα. Ξεκίνησε και το πρωτάθλημα της Super League και σκέφτηκα να διατυπώσω μια δυο σκέψεις που με βασανίζουν τις τελευταίες μέρες μετά και το ΠΑΟΚ – ΑΕΚ 1-1.

Έχω την αίσθηση ότι ο περισσότερος κόσμος που βρέθηκε στην Τούμπα το βράδυ της Κυριακής γύρισε απογοητευμένος στο σπίτι του, όχι τόσο για το τελικό αποτέλεσμα, αλλά κυρίως για το τρόπο με τον οποίο η ομάδα διαχειρίστηκε το παιχνίδι.

Θεωρώ ότι ο ΠΑΟΚ, ναι μεν θα μπορούσε να είχε κερδίσει το συγκεκριμένο παιχνίδι ωστόσο 4 βαθμοί στα πρώτα δύο παιχνίδια είναι μια εξαιρετική συγκομιδή βαθμών και δε θυμάμαι να έχει γίνει κάτι ανάλογο τα τελευταία δέκα χρόνια.

Μπορεί μέσα από τέτοια παιχνίδια να κερδίζονται πρωταθλήματα, όμως στόχος της ομάδας είναι άλλος – η έξοδος στο κύπελο UEFA (ή UEFA European leage όπως ακούγεται ότι θα ονομαστεί από την καινούρια χρονιά).

Το να διώξεις καμιά δεκαριά ποδοσφαιριστές, να φέρεις άλλους τόσους καινούριους και να κάνεις ομάδα για να πάρεις πρωτάθλημα την ίδια χρονιά, δεν έχει γίνει ποτέ και ούτε πρόκειται να γίνει. Ο ΠΑΟΚ βήμα – βήμα πρέπει να ξαναγίνει μεγάλος. Θα χρειαστεί καιρός αλλά θα γίνει.

Σκοπός φέτος του ΠΑΟΚ, είναι να κερδίζει τις θεωρητικά μικρότερες ομάδες και να παλεύει τα ντέρμπι. Αυτή η λογική αυτόματα καθιστά το επόμενο παιχνίδι με τον Πανθρακικό, σημαντικότερο απ’ αυτό με την ΑΕΚ. Και είναι σημαντικότερο για έναν ακόμη λόγο. Με δεδομένο ότι η διοίκηση του Πανθρακικού δεν προτίθεται να διαθέσει εισητήρια στους οπαδούς του ΠΑΟΚ, το συγκεκριμένο παιχνίδι θα είναι το πρώτο εκτός έδρας…

Tweener.addTween(_myTextField, {_text: "RandomText", time: 1, transition:"easeOutQuad"});

As I said, this didn’t seem to work so after a lot of expreriments and tests, I found out that I had to come up with a way to update the textFormat of the textField continuously to actually see the animation. So I added an onUpdate method to achieve that.

Tweener.addTween(_myTextField, {_text:"Random Text", time: 1, transition: "easeOutQuad", onUpdate: updateTextFromat});

private function updateTextFormat():void {
   _textFormat.setTextFormat(_myFormat);
}

That did the work, although I didn’ t like the animation at all! Anyway, I thought that was useful for some of you.

Now I am working on a youTube – like video player which will be able to load videos from youTube. It will also support all the well-known features such as fullScreen mode, scrubber and volume slider. The initial idea was to embed videos on the iMenu layout, so I thought I should start creating a video player class. But during the development procedure I was thinking why don’t we add this feature or that feature so the class became too complex and too large (1000 actionscript lines for a video player, are too many, however nobody cares if it works properly). Anyway, till my next post have a nice summer!

iPlat.

It’s been a while since I came up with news about by flashden items. Well I have already uploaded an item called iNavigate which is a serious solution for creating horizontal menus, although it hasn’t made an important amount of sales so far (I guess this is because, too many files are uploaded every day, the recent items section doesn’t work properly, and the search services are a little fuzzy).

Now I am working on the new version of iShow. This time iShow[v2.0] will support thumbnails, navigation, three types of transitions and a timer. It will be much more customizable.

I am trying to find a way to upload some flash preview on this blog, since now I am allowed to do that. So have in mind to visit again the blog in the following days in order to see how the new iShow looks like.

It’s May, so I may post more stuff this month.

Good night and good luck.

iPlat.

iMenu[v1.0] | Upgrade to iMenu[v1.1]

This update fixes a reported bug and adds a clickable button on the “details page”.

iShow[v1.0] | Upgrade to iShow[v1.0]

This update adds a play | pause button and 2 transition modes: a. fade and b. burn.

iMenuPro

This update removes the gradient mask that was making the file too dark and substitutes the dark overlay rollOver effect with a saturate | desaturate transition.

Coming Soon

I am currently working on two classes.

a. iButton: is a class that generates customizable rectangle Buttons

b. iNavigate: a class that generates customizable button menus (horizontal and vertical)

So, stay in tune to get the latest news for the release dates…

iScroll[v3.0]

OntModel model = ModelFactory.createOntologyModel(OntModelSpec.OWL_MEM);
OntClass genericClass = model.createClass(genericNS + "#genericClass" );
Ontology genericOntology = model.createOntology(genericNS);
for(int i=0; i < individualsToSave; i++){
Individual genericIndividual = model.createIndividual(genericNS + "#ind" + i, genericClass);
}
try{
FileOutputStream owlStream = new FileOutputStream(genericField.getText());
model.write(owlStream);
owlStream.close();
}
catch (IOException e){
System.err.println ("Unable to write to file");
System.exit(-1);
}

import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;


var myTween:Tween = new Tween(target_mc, "blur", Strong.easeInOut, 0, 20, 3, true);
myTween.onMotionChanged = function() {
target_mc._parent.filters = [new BlurFilter(target_mc.blur, target_mc.blur, 1)];
};

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Σενάριο / Σκηνοθεσία: Sebastian Schipper

Βαθμολογία: 9/10
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try {
(Runtime.getRuntime()).exec("open -e " + logFileName);
}
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Unable to launch log file: " + logFileName);
}


Where logFileName is the absolute URL of the file that we want to launch. I hope there was a platform independent way to do this, because in this way Java looses its portability advantage. Be brave my brothers, Adobe Air is on the way!

import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*;
import com.mosesSupposes.fusefx.*;
import com.endologik.fusefx.ColorFX;
ZigoEngine.register(PennerEasing);
FuseFX.register(ColorFX);
photo.onRollOver = photoOver;
photo.onRollOut = photoOut;
function photoOver() {
ZigoEngine.doTween(photo, [ColorFX.SATURATION], [-100], 1, PennerEasing.easeOutQuad);
}
function photoOut() {
ZigoEngine.doTween(photo, [ColorFX.SATURATION], [0], 1, PennerEasing.easeOutQuad);
}

That was simple, wasn’t it?