I been thinking of ways to preload things in AS3 like you would in AS2. Meaning a simple drag and drop and it preloads. I unfortunately couldn’t come to a solution of just drag and drop. But I have gotten pretty damn close. Last night I started working on a Basic Preloader Class in which I can build more complex preloaders off of. Just like some of the classes in my VIdeoPlayer API, the Base Class gets replaced with BasicPreloader to give it its functionality.

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Just would like to let everyone know to pick up the 155th issue of Web Designer Magazine. I have been published AGAIN!! What a great feeling to see your words in a publication. Anyway, I wrote a Papervision 3D tutorial for beginning PV3D users. It is an interactive 3D Menu. By the time you get through the complete tutorial, you will know most of the basic tools for creating 3D scenes in PV3D. This isn’t a tutorial on the Great White version of Papervision, This is on the newest release of PV3D which I recommend everyone get.

Here is a link to get your issue.

This weekend my good friend Peter Panton asked my for some help setting up some communication between Javascript and Actionscript. He wanted to be able to get the scroll value of the HTML page and use it in Flash. To be honest, I never did any kind of communication between the two and had no idea where to start. I did some research and came across the ExternalInterface Class.

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Here’s a project I had to do for my Multimedia Design Class. We needed to pick a subject that is up for debate. I decided to do Mac vs PC, seemed to be more fun than smoking or something like that.

I went for a fun UI approach and make it like a desktop. Click on the icons and a window pops up that you can drag around, minimize, etc. It was a pretty fun project. Best of all I got an A!!!!!!.

I also posted the code for anyone who was curious.

Check out the site here

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