AS3 Apex

Hello everyone,  I’m sorry to say after a lack of resources and organization  needed to make this contest work I now  have to say that the Biggest Tweener contest is now canceled. Also the user group is going to be taking the next 3 months off.  Over the next three months I will be trying to arrange more of an agenda for the group to help this from happening again.  I hope to see you all again once there has been more time to arrange and organize the events.  Also if you would be interested in  doing a presentation or providing resources for the group please contact me at josh@gfxcomplex.com

- Josh Chernoff.

As I had said before I will be posting the link here to the fullscreen image and video library. http://gfxcomplex.com/actionscript3/free-as3-image-and-video-full-screen-library/

Also we still need some help to get the biggest tweener contest under way. There is a need for two like computers and two monitors or projectors. If you can donate any of the two for a night please contact me at josh[at]gfxcomplex.com.

- Josh Chernoff.

The next AS3 Apex meeting will be held at URBAN EATS at 6:PM I will be showing a few classes that I have been working on for images and video that scale the full screen of the browser. Also the meeting for 4-11-0-9 will be the contest date for the biggest tweener so I will be going over this again and hopefully getting the details hashed out by this next meeting. See you there.

- Josh Chernoff.

Due to a lack of organization and other personal matters I will not be hosting a meeting for February. I would like to say I’m very sorry to everyone who was gonna attend this meeting, but there is a little good news. One of the major issues why I wish to wait is because I plan to kick off the biggest tweener contest very soon.

Flash and Flex Developer’s Magazine is kicking off the new year with more content  more often. Ewa Samulska, the lead editor for FFD has informed me that the new magazine is going Bi-monthly (”was quarterly”) and is adding an extra 16 pages per issue. You maybe thinking, “That’s great and all, but what about the content?”. Well I can tell you that the magazine is maturing rapidly and is becoming a most have resource for all skill levels of Flash, Flex and Air coders. The first issue of 09 is packed full of content for all skill levels. Going from learning about Google maps in flash to using flash with the Nintendo Wii to accessing Microsoft Analysis Services to Retrieve OLAP Cube data in flex. Long story short there is something in FFD for everybody.

- Josh Chernoff
FFD Link: http://www.ffdmag.com/

I made a blog post on my own blog about a class that I made some time ago. Today I decided to remake it so that you can work with different positions of scaling and bitmapsmoothing on or off.

In short what this class will bo is take a url for a image, load in interanly, span and algin the image to fill the whole stage and resize if the browser window or stage size changes.

You can read more at http://gfxcomplex.com/actionscript3/as3-full-screen-image-class-with-alignment-scaling-and-smoothing/

Meeting is canceled. Sorry to everyone who was gonna attend.
Since we don’t host a swingers user group, the Valentines day meeting is gonna be moved back t0 Sunday, February 15th at 6pm. The location and topic are still TBA.

Thanks.

- Josh Chernoff

The Next meeting is coming up soon. Since the group has started I have seen more people who are looking to learn the basics about OOP in as3. So I thought I would be best for the next meeting to be an all out Q and A with examples.

This meeting will be held once again at the Kayaks coffee house at 6pm this next Satarday the 10th.

And of course we will also talk alittle about the new contest coming up.

Hope to see you there.

- Josh Chernoff.

PS: go join our forums and promote Action script.

AS3 Apex will be hosting a contest soon. The grand prize will be a copy CS4 Web premium, plus there will be runner up prizes tshirts, books ect…. All of this is still in the works and we need your help to refine the idea so that it’s a fun and fair contest to all skill levels and types of people. There is a new Area in our forums that I would encourage you to post about your ideas, dislikes, questions and just about any thing else related to the contest.

Now on to the good stuff.

Please keep in mined that to details are still in the works. You have a maze that you tween a little icon through with out touching the wall or crossing the wall. The tweening is accomplished by a switch and a incrementing integer The current ideas for some of the rules are that you can only add an x and y value to an tween per case to navigate the icon. I may just brake this down even more to make it even easier for new action script people. This contest is about gaining awareness for our industry by educating people about action script and getting them excited to learn.

I have attached to source of the current idea.  the-biggest-tweener

If you haven’t seen the Audiotool from hobnox it’s time you did.  The Audiotool has a virtual tr 909, tr 808, tb 303, kobolt mixer plus 12 effects pedals all made with flash. I don’t really know what else to say other then, you have to see it to beleave it!

link: http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html