iPlat

Κατόπιν απαίτησης του αδερφού μου, δημιούργησα μια απλή Air εφαρμογή η οποία φορτώνει το κουπόνι της ημέρας (ΟΠΑΠ) και υπολογίζει το κόστος συστημάτων (Απλό, 3/4, 3,4/4, 3/5, 4/5, 3,4,5/5). Επίσης δίνει την δυνατότητα στον χρήστη να δει ποια είναι τα πιθανά κέρδη των γεγονότων που επέλεξε, καθώς επίσης και τα ακριβή κέρδη με βάση επιτυχημένα γεγονότα (βλέπε την παρακάτω εικόνα). Η εφαρμογή έχει μερικά bugs ακομά, αλλά μόλις τα διορθώσω σκοπεύω να την διαθέσω δωρεάν μέσα από το blog. Οποιοδήποτε σχόλιο, ή πρόταση για προσθήκη feature στην εφαρμογή, ευπρόσδεκτα.

Πάει καιρός από τότε που δημοσίευσα κάτι σ’ αυτό το blog. Μεσολάβησαν διακοπές, εξεταστικές και πολλά άλλα. Ξεκίνησε και το πρωτάθλημα της Super League και σκέφτηκα να διατυπώσω μια δυο σκέψεις που με βασανίζουν τις τελευταίες μέρες μετά και το ΠΑΟΚ - ΑΕΚ 1-1.

Έχω την αίσθηση ότι ο περισσότερος κόσμος που βρέθηκε στην Τούμπα το βράδυ της Κυριακής γύρισε απογοητευμένος στο σπίτι του, όχι τόσο για το τελικό αποτέλεσμα, αλλά κυρίως για το τρόπο με τον οποίο η ομάδα διαχειρίστηκε το παιχνίδι.

Θεωρώ ότι ο ΠΑΟΚ, ναι μεν θα μπορούσε να είχε κερδίσει το συγκεκριμένο παιχνίδι ωστόσο 4 βαθμοί στα πρώτα δύο παιχνίδια είναι μια εξαιρετική συγκομιδή βαθμών και δε θυμάμαι να έχει γίνει κάτι ανάλογο τα τελευταία δέκα χρόνια.

Μπορεί μέσα από τέτοια παιχνίδια να κερδίζονται πρωταθλήματα, όμως στόχος της ομάδας είναι άλλος - η έξοδος στο κύπελο UEFA (ή UEFA European leage όπως ακούγεται ότι θα ονομαστεί από την καινούρια χρονιά).

Το να διώξεις καμιά δεκαριά ποδοσφαιριστές, να φέρεις άλλους τόσους καινούριους και να κάνεις ομάδα για να πάρεις πρωτάθλημα την ίδια χρονιά, δεν έχει γίνει ποτέ και ούτε πρόκειται να γίνει. Ο ΠΑΟΚ βήμα - βήμα πρέπει να ξαναγίνει μεγάλος. Θα χρειαστεί καιρός αλλά θα γίνει.

Σκοπός φέτος του ΠΑΟΚ, είναι να κερδίζει τις θεωρητικά μικρότερες ομάδες και να παλεύει τα ντέρμπι. Αυτή η λογική αυτόματα καθιστά το επόμενο παιχνίδι με τον Πανθρακικό, σημαντικότερο απ’ αυτό με την ΑΕΚ. Και είναι σημαντικότερο για έναν ακόμη λόγο. Με δεδομένο ότι η διοίκηση του Πανθρακικού δεν προτίθεται να διαθέσει εισητήρια στους οπαδούς του ΠΑΟΚ, το συγκεκριμένο παιχνίδι θα είναι το πρώτο εκτός έδρας…

I was searching the other day to find some examples demonstrating the use of the TextShortcuts classes of the AS3 Tweener API. The truth is that I didn’t find something specific, so I thought to myself why don’t you try using the Tweener the normal way. So I did, I created a textField with some initial text value and I tried to animate the content of the textField. Surprisingly, the textField disappeared after testing and I was a bit confused about what happened. The code that I initially used was this single actionscript line:

As I said, this didn’t seem to work so after a lot of expreriments and tests, I found out that I had to come up with a way to update the textFormat of the textField continuously to actually see the animation. So I added an onUpdate method to achieve that.

That did the work, although I didn’ t like the animation at all! Anyway, I thought that was useful for some of you.

It’s been a month and a half since I last wrote something on my blog so you would probably thought that I was too busy. Well, I really was. That was a tough period for me that included exams (that didn’t go well) and a keynote presentation for my diploma homework (that did go well). So I guess now I have some time to rest till August when I shall start studying again my final three lessons. I was thinking to start developing some AS3 flashden items on July so I uploaded the iMenu AS3 Platinum Edition which I already had developed since May but I didn’t have the time to upload it. iMenu AS3 Platinum Edition is basically the AS3 version of iMenuPro. It’s a dynamic accordion photo menu that now supports both horizontal and vertical implementations. It also provides a plethora of rollover effects such as Saturation, Brightness and Blur.

Now I am working on a youTube – like video player which will be able to load videos from youTube. It will also support all the well-known features such as fullScreen mode, scrubber and volume slider. The initial idea was to embed videos on the iMenu layout, so I thought I should start creating a video player class. But during the development procedure I was thinking why don’t we add this feature or that feature so the class became too complex and too large (1000 actionscript lines for a video player, are too many, however nobody cares if it works properly). Anyway, till my next post have a nice summer!

iPlat.

Yesterday, I was searching for some AS3 Tweening Classes, and I found this one. TweenFilterLite is very easy to use and it provides access to properties such as saturation, brightness, contrast etc. Since Tweener does not officially support this feature yet, I ‘ll put this weapon in my inventory!

iShow[v2.0] was finally approved for sale. You can view it here!

Two new updates were recently approved by flashDen. The first one upgrades iShow to version 1.6 and fixes a preloading bug. Now the slideshow begins only after all photos are completely loaded. The second one upgrades iMenu to version 1.5. This file is completely redesigned to reach the object - oriented standards of the rest iPlat files.

Although this is a spanish version and the quality is not good enough, I couldn’t help myself. For those of you who don’t know what’s this all about, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is the new David Fincher film coming out on Christmas. Just one word; AMAZING! See for yourself before YouTube deletes this video due to copyright issues. Also the official site was launched yesterday although there ’s still nothing on it.

OK, I decided to get some privacy, since Wordpress didn’t offer to many services for the web developers (handle actionscript code etc.). This is the brand new look of iPlat’s blog, hosted by freesitespace (by the way this is an amazing free host - service, check it out here).

It’s been a while since I came up with news about by flashden items. Well I have already uploaded an item called iNavigate which is a serious solution for creating horizontal menus, although it hasn’t made an important amount of sales so far (I guess this is because, too many files are uploaded every day, the recent items section doesn’t work properly, and the search services are a little fuzzy).

Now I am working on the new version of iShow. This time iShow[v2.0] will support thumbnails, navigation, three types of transitions and a timer. It will be much more customizable.

I am trying to find a way to upload some flash preview on this blog, since now I am allowed to do that. So have in mind to visit again the blog in the following days in order to see how the new iShow looks like.

It’s May, so I may post more stuff this month.

Good night and good luck.

iPlat.

I worked on some updates for my flashDen files last weekend and now I am waiting for them to be approved. The updates concern the files iMenu[v1.0], iShow[v1.0] and iMenuPro.

iMenu[v1.0] | Upgrade to iMenu[v1.1]

This update fixes a reported bug and adds a clickable button on the “details page”.

iShow[v1.0] | Upgrade to iShow[v1.0]

This update adds a play | pause button and 2 transition modes: a. fade and b. burn.

iMenuPro

This update removes the gradient mask that was making the file too dark and substitutes the dark overlay rollOver effect with a saturate | desaturate transition.

Coming Soon

I am currently working on two classes.

a. iButton: is a class that generates customizable rectangle Buttons

b. iNavigate: a class that generates customizable button menus (horizontal and vertical)

So, stay in tune to get the latest news for the release dates…