Oooops I did it again, many of you have hear the story of the infamious sparky the laptop, the only laptop in history to have almost committed a darwin award on it’s owner,

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Had a student ask me how to add a movieclip from the library to the stage,

pre-as3 this was easily done via the excellent attachMovie function, it was a simple yet powerful function which did the job properly good,

Unfortunately like many function which were properly good yet quite were based on analogies which were IDE specific these were removed in as3, and those wishing to replicate their functionality were left in a ditch on fire to read adobe’s frankly awful documentation, or buy one of the many as3 bibles which have become essiessenal reading in this post-as2 age.

So basically i give you the simple attachMovie function (for were you are working with libraries object which are not in child swfs):

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Been playing with processing js it’s very very cool, but i can’t help thinking that flashblock just went out of date, how long before we start to get canvas based adverts coming in…

experiments all rip offs of my favourate processing experimentor http://www.complexification.net/

http://zapper.hodgers.com/files/javascript/processing_test/index_bin.html

http://zapper.hodgers.com/files/javascript/processing_test/index_angel.html

http://zapper.hodgers.com/files/javascript/processing_test/index_candy_light.html

of course my similar flash experiments were much much faster, but it shows that this new fangled js maybe onto something…

Binary Ring Studies

http://zapper.hodgers.com/files/binary_ring.html

http://zapper.hodgers.com/files/blurry_binary_ring.html

More info about processingjs here

check it out, it could be the future as soon as IE get their canvas support sorted, it maybe does vml stuff but since i went mac i care less and less about obslete browsers while on hoilday

Zapper

ps FireUnit and Code Burner are fab install them into your Firebug today!