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How to run Flash Catalyst CS5.5 projects on Android devices 17 Jul 2011 | 06:14 pm
While playing around with Flash Catalyst 5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 I realized it's pretty easy to get your Flash Catalyst projects onto android devices. This tutorial will walk you through importing ...
Using a Custom Preloader in Catalyst 11 Apr 2011 | 11:30 pm
A common request for Catalyst is the ability to customize the preloader that displays while the main swf is loading. I've tweaked some FXP's and FXPL's to simplify the process of modifying the preload...
Day 12: Tab Navigator Component 5 Apr 2011 | 08:20 pm
And one more makes twelve! Hurray! This component is pretty simple, buttons 1-10 that, when clicked, navigate through pages 1-10. They also disable the button for the current page, so the component a...
Day 11: Flickr Feed 30 Mar 2011 | 07:09 pm
One more skinnable component I created a while ago while I was learning to write skinnable components. It pulls a list of recent images uploaded to Flickr, with the ability to search by tag or user id...
Day 10: YouTube Component 25 Mar 2011 | 05:22 pm
I've seen a couple requests for embedding YouTube videos in Flash Catalyst projects. This skinnable component pulls in a YouTube video at runtime, using a video id and the YouTube AS3 API. Click the ...
Day 9: Drag & Drop Canvas 19 Mar 2011 | 04:41 am
Also known as, the Dress-up Robot! This skinnable component has a "droppables" group of graphics you can drag to and position on a "canvas" group. For this example, the droppables is a set of accesso...
Day 8: Drag and Drop Lists 18 Mar 2011 | 04:32 pm
I decided to whip a simple custom skinnable component to enable drag and drop between lists. I've posted a quick sample skin of how this might look in a 'these are a few of my favorite things' drag/dr...
Day 7: FlightBox 10 Mar 2011 | 07:41 pm
I mocked up a quick Flex Lightbox component, which I have lovingly dubbed "FlightBox." Click on the image below to hop to the actual swf. Take an image list and wrap it inside the FlightBox skin. You...
Day 6: Popup Component 3 Mar 2011 | 06:50 pm
Here is a skinnable popup component, a little button that displays some popup content. In this case, I've decided to play graphic designer. The popup is displayed on top of the rest of the applicatio...
Day 5: Weather Component 3 Mar 2011 | 06:33 pm
Howdy doody, here's a weather component. It displays the forecast for up to the next 7 days. In this case, the skinnable component is using the zip code "94103" -- that's San Francisco, so there's a g...
