Josh Milstead http://jmilstead.com/2011 Developer Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:53:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Adobe Air App Template http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/adobe-air-app-template/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/adobe-air-app-template/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:35:00 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=342 This is a template I use when I start a new Air app.
AIR TEMPLATE

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/adobe-air-app-template/feed/ 0 Skinable Gallery with Video Player and Skin Creator (AS3) http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/skinable-gallery-video-player/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/skinable-gallery-video-player/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:38:00 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=333 skinable gallery
This is a gallery that I created for SCAD. It needed is easily skinable so that it will fit the design of any page it’s placed on. I created the gallery and made it read XML that described the colors of the assets. I then created a Skin generator that writes the XML and Saves it to a server using PHP. This gallery includes videos using my Streaming Video Player.

Download

Skinable Gallery

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/skinable-gallery-video-player/feed/ 0 Protected: Site for Dooz http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/site-dooz/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/site-dooz/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:36:21 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=328

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/site-dooz/feed/ 0 Protected: SCAD Exhibitions Gallery http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-exhibitions-gallery/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-exhibitions-gallery/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:35:15 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=326

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-exhibitions-gallery/feed/ 0 SCAD Exhibitions Home Page http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-exhibitions-home-page/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-exhibitions-home-page/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:34:38 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=324 exhibitionHomePage

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-exhibitions-home-page/feed/ 0 Protected: Fashion Forward http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fashion-2/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fashion-2/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:32:21 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=322

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fashion-2/feed/ 0 Protected: SCAD Admissions Mobile Site http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-admissions-mobile-site/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-admissions-mobile-site/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:31:00 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=316

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-admissions-mobile-site/feed/ 0 Protected: SCAD Museum Old Flash Site http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-museum-flash-site/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-museum-flash-site/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:30:13 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=314

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/scad-museum-flash-site/feed/ 0 Protected: Simple Sprite Based Game Engine http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/simple-sprite-based-game-engine/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/simple-sprite-based-game-engine/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:29:32 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=312

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/simple-sprite-based-game-engine/feed/ 0 Protected: Fashion Seen http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fashion/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fashion/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:28:51 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=310

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fashion/feed/ 0 Protected: EMG Site http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/emg-site/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/emg-site/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:28:03 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=297

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/emg-site/feed/ 0 Useful links http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/useful-links/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/useful-links/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:07:37 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=293 HTML5 project template generator
An awesome way to share code
Lorem ipsum generator
Markup validator
A super easy way to make cross browser shadows visually
Javascript compressor
Google web fonts
Good resource for info on Flash game development

Awesome blog with good as3 links

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/useful-links/feed/ 0 AS3 Full screen WordPress theme http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/as3-full-screen-wordpress-theme/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/as3-full-screen-wordpress-theme/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:14:53 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=286 This is a theme I started setting up that can be used to get information from word press. It has built-in deeplinking and works with the Ajax For All plugin.

WARNING: The code on this is messy. I haven’t had time for refactoring yet and there is no unified interface yet. I plan on making a wordpress AS3 api soon if I have the time and I see a need for it :)

AS3 WORDPRESS TEMPLATE

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/as3-full-screen-wordpress-theme/feed/ 0 AS3 Project Template http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/as3-project-template/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/as3-project-template/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:08:25 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=282 This is a template I use when I start a new AS3 project. It’s a simple setup with a document class.

AS3 PROJECT TEMPLATE

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/as3-project-template/feed/ 0 Streaming Video Player (AS3) http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/streaming-video-player-as3/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/streaming-video-player-as3/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:18:36 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=261





I created a video player that could play videos streaming from Flash media server, a local file on a serve or YouTube. The player was easily skinable by designers with little or no Flash experience. The solution I came up with is heavily based on polymorphism. I wanted the player to treat the different video types the same regardless of their source, allowing for expansion in the future. I setup a standard interface that the different video player types would share. This allows me to add different video sources easily by creating a new Class that implements the video player interface.

I used that video player as part of many projects I did for SCAD.

Download

steamingVideoPlayer

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/streaming-video-player-as3/feed/ 0 Sidewalk Arts Virtual Sidewalk Gallery (AS3) http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/sidewalk-arts-virtual-sidewalk-gallery/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/sidewalk-arts-virtual-sidewalk-gallery/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:55:06 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=254 side walk arts

Here are the source files for the SCAD Sidewalk Arts festival online contest gallery. It uses AS3 and uses Papervison3D.

For this project I made a gallery that could hold a large number of images and could scroll them across the screen in 3D. I decided to go with a Bitmapdata based approach. So, I made 2 3D planes and added them to a papervision3D scene. Then I applied a bitmap as the texture for the planes. Using the Bitmapdata Classes copyPixels method, I copied all the images needed on the screen at any given time. When the user moves down the sidewalk there is no need to recalculate and 3D transformations because the scrolling is in 2D.

Download

sidewalkGallery

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/sidewalk-arts-virtual-sidewalk-gallery/feed/ 0 Protected: Moon Base Ware-wolf Game Engine http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/moon-base-ware-wolf-game-engine/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/moon-base-ware-wolf-game-engine/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:39:40 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=247

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/moon-base-ware-wolf-game-engine/feed/ 0 Inline form labels jQuery plugin http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/inline-form-labels-jquery-plugin/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/inline-form-labels-jquery-plugin/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:06:15 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=244 inline labels

This is a simple jQuery plugin that I wrote. It takes elements in a form and links them with the corresponding labels inline. There aren’t many options built-in yet but I have used it in several projects so far and it’s been super useful to me :)

The code



The results

inline form example

I originally developed this for use on my SCAD Challenge Project

Download

inlineFormLabels

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/inline-form-labels-jquery-plugin/feed/ 0 Protected: Fonts! http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fonts/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fonts/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:20:20 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=239

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/fonts/feed/ 0 Time Based AS3 Ad with XML http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/time-based-as3-ad-with-xml/ http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/time-based-as3-ad-with-xml/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:26:26 +0000 Josh http://jmilstead.com/2011/?p=193 This is a template that I use when I make simple ads that need to read from XML. I built in an option that lets the user change the text of the ad based on the current date.

TIME BASED XML AD TEMPLATE

]]> http://jmilstead.com/2011/2011/07/time-based-as3-ad-with-xml/feed/ 0