There is often confustion by new adaptors of Starling about what Events to use to handle touch/clicks. Unlike AIR's native TOUCH_BEGIN, TOUCH_END events, Starling uses a single TOUCH event, the type of touch is then extracted in the event handler through the event (e) object. See below. private function onTouch(e:TouchEvent):void { var touch:Touch = e.getTouch(stage); [...]
Recently I have been spending more time looking at Html5 gaming solutions. Haxe NME has been my specific focus of recent. I have decided to approach the learning process similarly to the way I learn flash many years ago - by making real simple games. For my first test I have create a simple shooting game [...]
At Pixel Utopia, we LOVE as3, its a versatile language with some great development tools and a solid community. Recently there has been a bit of discussion in the community about the future of AIR as a platform. The murmurs and speculation are closely related to Adobes PR, or lack of. Alas, there are some alternatives [...]
Pages with varied content on different pages can often experience ‘content jumps’. This happens as the browser decides to add or remove the scroll bars, causing page content to move the width of the scroll bars. An unsightly event… The fastest way to stop this behavior is to force scroll bars to always be present. Read [...]
With starling v1.3 came the introduction of filters. In this post i will show how to use the DropShadow filter. the fiilter takes 6 Parameters: Distance, angle, colour, alpha, blur, resolution. Make sure you download the latest version of starling and add it to your project http://github.com/PrimaryFeather/Starling-Framework/zipball/v1.3 // import the filter import starling.filters.BlurFilter; //apply it [...]
If you are new to starling and just learning the ropes, you have likely gone through some of the well known tutorials for the framework including the fantastic series from Adobe's Hermanth Sharma. They all demonstrate the use of Texture Packer or Flash CS6 to generate sprite sheets which are later embeded into your project. This [...]
//declare the signal private var _sigSomthingHappened= new Signal(); // optional Data type for explicit coding incase you // want to pass along a specific argument with the signal when its dispatched // you can use any data type Strings, ints, numbers, value objects etc. private var _sigSomthingHappened= new Signal(String); //DISPATCH _sigSomthingHappened.dispatch(); [...]
In this post I am showing a list screen resolutions for popular devices, this list will grow and shrink as time goes by based on device popularity. You will find that most devices fall into a common resolution group, ie many android devices of 2010-2012 had a device res of 800×480 pixels, then in 2012+ they [...]
By default when publishing AIR to iOS apps, there is a default shine over the icon courtesy of apple. There is some what of a stigma around the use of this feature, and I not recommend it for apps falling into the 'games' category. (I'm yet to see a top page app in this category use [...]
There are several joystick scripts going around, however the few I stumbled upon had limited control sensitivity. A virtual analog controller should allow full 360 degree control (even if limited to certain directions within game-play, the system should allow for expansion/re-use), and MUST enable movement sensitivity (the character should move with a relative speed to the [...]
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