adrianparr


Member since 02/09/2009

Name: Adrian Parr

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Location: Aylesbury, UK

Website: http://www.adrianparr.com

I am an experienced freelance multimedia professional with a strong mix of technical and managerial skills. I have more than eight years’ experience working in a busy London full-service digital media agency. I consider myself an all-round digital media expert with a focus on Adobe Flash and related technologies. I am a hard worker who is very easy to get along with.\r\n\r\nPlease visit my LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianparr) to view recommendations from previous co-workers. I have worked on interactive projects across a wide range of sectors, including education, government, television and advertising, receiving more than 20 major industry awards. I am passionate about the industry and active within the online community, and always ensure my knowledge is up-to-date.

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Full credit for this code goes to Scratchbrain (http://www.scratchbrain.net/blog/ver2/)
0 633 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
The docs for the Sekati SWC are here: http://docs.sekati.com/sekati/sekati/utils/ColorUtil.html Another useful blog post: http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/code/actionscript-3/extract-average-colours-from-bitmapdata
0 818 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Here is an example of a sound that is in a library with the class field set to MySound.
0 1107 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Credit for this goes to Terry Paton
3 604 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Use this static class to encode and decode HTML Entity Names. For some reason Snipplr doesn't display all the code, so download the ZIP file for a full working demo and source code.
0 1641 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Taken from Christian Cantrell's Adobe article called 'Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes'.
0 622 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Taken from Christian Cantrell's Adobe article called 'Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes'.
0 583 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
All credit for this class goes to Mark Walters (www.yourpalmark.com) This class needs to be put in the package structure "com/yourpalmark/utils"
0 749 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
These five characters should be replaced with their HTML entity names before being used in XML, otherwise they may cause the XML to be invalid.
0 1038 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This makes use of http://www.minimalcomps.com, https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib and http://alivepdf.bytearray.org
2 1228 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This can be used to help load, play and monitor playback of external video.
1 693 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Note: This example uses Arthropod Debugger (AIR App) which can be downloaded from here http://arthropod.stopp.se/
1 713 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
Here is a Document Class that loads an external XML file.
2 1054 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This function trims a string and removes empty entries in a comma delimited list, removes extra commas from the beginning and end and also remove extra space characters between words.
1 945 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
A handy little function to dynamically draw a black dot on the stage (or displayObject). This can be useful if you want to see where 0,0 is located.
2 943 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This code traces out the name (and display list path) of the object that currently has focus. This handy when you are testing the tab order and you can't see a yellow rectangle anywhere.
2 618 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This code uses Senocular SWFReader class to get the modification (publish) date of the SWF, and then displays it as a right-click menu item. You need to make sure that your SWF includes the XMP metadata. In the Flash IDE you can turn this on by going...
2 1022 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This code separates out the Flash Player Platform, Major Version number and Minor Version numbers.
0 761 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
From the Big Spaceship Labs website. This is a useful workaround for the following error message ... SecurityError: Error #2142: Security sandbox violation: local SWF files cannot use the LoaderContext.securityDomain property.
7 945 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr