May 2002

Samuel Wan keeps on cooking on great Flash MX projects. This time its a Fisheye Menu in Flash MX that is up for serving. Sam’s implementation of the fisheye menu extends the original Listbox component that is part of the Macromedia components shipped with Flash MX. I must say I am impressed with the way the whole list menu handles, and with Sam’s references to sources for building it. But I am not so sure I like the usability aspect of it (see the demo). I feel the menu hides […]

John comments on RSS as a follow up to my posting about Phil’s Flash MX RSS reader. I wish you had comments on your weblog John, or at least that it was possible to reach you by e-mail. Just wanted to point out that while there is a healthy discussion going on about the RSS format, there is actually an RSS standard (RSS 1.0) being used today that supports categories (in RSS 1.0 called subject). Check out my weblog in RSS 1.0 format for an example.

Vectorkid is a cool site with great tutorials on creating vector art in Flash. With tips on how to greate realistic metal, plastic, wood, cloth and much more. I especially like the vector tomato :-) [Via Flashblog]

This is the coolest intergraton of an RSS parser in Flash MX I have seen so far. Phil Chung work as Multimedia Instructor at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He made the RSS reader for his own use, but promise that he probably will make the source for the reader available in the near future. The scrollbars use the FScrollPane component, not the browser scrollbars, so instead of having the Flash movie appear in a small “box”, Phil is letting it take up the entire browser area. It works

The Flash Enabled Book site was made by Steve Leone one of the authors of Flash Enabled, and the designer of the book as well as the web site. BTW: If you want to pick up the book, you can find it here. [Via SwfNews & Flashenabled.com]

Phillip has posted the source for a Pocket PC Phone Dialer (zip download) featured in the Flash Enabled book. Here is a great example of what you can do with Macromedia Flash MX and the Flash Player 5 for Pocket PC. It’s a phone dialer that stores numbers using cookies.. Pocket PC, Mobile Devices, Innovation Here is a request Phillip, could you get permalinks on your blog soon, pretty please? :-) Its really hard to link to a spesific story at Flashenabled as it is now.

David Doull’s Urbanev: Thinking in Flash is an interesting site, found it because he has started linking to me (thanks David). David is a brilliant Flash developer, responsible for such great projects as the award winning – as well as great example of a very useful use of Flash in an application – smallblueprinter I like Davids writing style, I think he would do good with a weblog – it wouldn’t have to be just two words and a link or two you know David :-) For now he is

Mike has a new list of new content about Flash MX now available on the Macromedia.com site. There is a lot of good content there, including a couple of articles regarding usability, Featured Community site (as reported earlier today), a user survey, and last but not least John Dowdell’s “JD Forum”. John lets us under the blanket to see what Macromedia is doing to help finding the information you want easier at the Designer & Developer Center. I have to tip my hat *g* to John for linking back to