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Making a perlin sound AS3 depending on a sound spectrum

January 27th, 2007 at 3:00 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Adobe, Experiment, Flash, Flex, Tutorials



The January session of the AUGG (Adobe User Group Geneva) was the first workshop made by the group. Thierry presented us Flex 2.0 by making some nice example (code to come). I presented a fast introduction to AS3 by showing & explaining the code of my Perlin Sound Spectrum Visualizer (example 1, example 2). [...]

Photoshop CS2 Lessons

January 20th, 2007 at 1:03 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe, General, Photoshop



Monday at the Nomades (IT school in Geneva), I’ll be giving Photoshop CS2 lessons. It’s already the third time I teach an Adobe technologies. My first time was with Flash, my second time with Premiere Pro and now Photoshop. I feel myself very lucky to be able to change the topic at each time (even [...]

Actionscript 3.0 Video Tutorial #8: Compute Audio Spectrum

January 18th, 2007 at 6:13 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Flex, Tutorials, Videos



Video #8 is here!
That time I speak about creating a simple audio spectrum for the right and left channel with Actionscript 3.0. It’s approx. 13 long. As always it’s totally free…
Watch the video
Check for other video tutorials about actionscript 3.0
Ahmet

Perlin sound visualizer

January 15th, 2007 at 4:22 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Experiment



Here is a little Perlin Noise Sound Visualizer…

Simple AS3 mp3 player

January 13th, 2007 at 6:20 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Experiment, Flex



Simple try to make a MP3 player in AS3… Takes the ID3 soung tags, get the buffer, the sound position and make a small visualizer…

A Flash Decompiler that works!

January 11th, 2007 at 2:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash, Sponsored review, Tutorials



I had a strange call with a new customer who asked me to edit the work of another flash developer that has left without leaving them the fla… I told him that it was crappy to find a good swf to fla decompiler (as I never found a good working one). But I told him [...]

Actionscript 3.0 Video Tutorial #7: Xml & AS3

January 10th, 2007 at 12:27 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Flex, Tutorials



I’ve just updated as3.metah.ch, with a new video tutorial about the loading of an XML and the search within the Xml with E4x. It’s approx. 13min long.
Watch the video
Goto the video tutorial part
Enjoy it ;)
Ahmet

Lift07, challenges and creative solutions of technology in our society

January 9th, 2007 at 1:42 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Marketing, Mobile, Point of View



I had the luck today, to assist to a presentation from Laurent Haug, the guy behind Lift Conference and coComment. He made a very interesting talk.

LIFT is a gathering of talented observers, explorers, and builders who discuss the current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. LIFT is three days to face cutting edge [...]

AS3 video tutorial: Tracking the Mouse in ActionScript 3.0

January 4th, 2007 at 1:41 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Flex, Tutorials, Videos



A new video tutorial about tracking a mouse when outside the stage with ActionScript 3.0 using Flex 2.0. Useful when using click & drag. This video is about 15min long.
You can watch it here or go to my actionscript 3 tutorials section.
Hope you enjoy it ;)
Ahmet

Tracking mouse leaving the Flash Player (AS3)

January 3rd, 2007 at 5:34 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Tutorials



[kml_flashembed movie="http://blog.metah.ch/image/example/mouseTrap.swf" height="200" width="300" /]
Actionscript 3.0 allow us to detect easily when the mouse leave the Flash Player, making it possible to avoid strange behavior of our clip. For example during “drag and drop” it can be useful to know when the mouse leave the stage. To do this you just have to use the [...]