Jul 15th, 2010
Formatting Numbers in AS3 / Flex
A quick google search of this topic yields, pages and pages of people rolling their own number formatting functions. Everyone has their own little tweaks to their function. Isn’t there a built in function to do something so trivial ? Yes, it’s the NumberFormatter class, Why does nobody talk about how to use the NumberFormatter class that [...]
May 13th, 2010
HTML5 + video Tag + iPhone, iPad = iHaveHeadache!
Here at no.inc we try to keep things fresh, support new technologies and devices. So recently we have a client who wants some videos on their site, and we decide to make it work with both PC’s and mobile devices (and specifically the iPhone and iPad). The Approach Well, since flash 9.0.115 flash supports h.264 video [...]
Mar 31st, 2010
Using a custom preloader in AS3 with wmode=transparent
Recently we had trouble with a flash piece for a client. The swf’s we made would not load and just show the loading progress bar. Upon further investigation it turns out we changed the swf to wmode transparent. Now I know from past experiences that flash’s internal timing changes with transparent and normally I recommend [...]
Mar 19th, 2010
Created Flash interactive for BET’s Rip The Runway promotional site
This week BET aired its annual Rip the Runway fashion extravaganza. The event was hosted by Nicki Minaj and saw performances from Minaj, Estelle, Trina, and Ludacris. No.inc collaborated with BET to create a Flash interactive for the promotional website called “Fierce and Frugal”. http://bit.ly/d211Hg
Jan 21st, 2010
Accordians and Ukuleles
At no|inc we love creating online games ( check out Water Street Fighter, Cake Boss)! Recently we had the opportunity to license a copy of our Accordion Hero game to MVNP, a marketing firm out of Honolulu for their own spin “Ukulele Hero“.
Nov 23rd, 2009
Cake Boss Game on Discovery
It’s now live. We hope you have fun playing it! Check it out on Discovery’s web site: http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/cake-boss/games/delivery-dash.html
Sep 2nd, 2009
Forcing class import with dynamic classes in AS3
Recently I came upon a situation where I’m trying to dynamically instance classes based off meta data loaded externally. Flex compiles ok, but running fails… Futher investigation while debugging during runtime shows the following error: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable MyClass is not defined. It turns out, that because I have no reference to using the class statically, [...]
Jun 4th, 2009
Prototype – Xbox Game
So this new game Prototype looks sick. I remember seeing a preview of it last year during E3. The website is one of the first examples I’ve see that uses Facebook-Connect to create a dark moody intro and they do it well. If you have a face book account check it out. The wait is [...]
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