We at the Adobe Pittsburgh Flash Users Group just released our 10th podcast. I thought I’d post it my blog because of our special guest. Asger, a DFUGer from Denmark and www.flashforum.dk called in all the way from Denmark to give us a perspective of the Flash scene there. Take a listen if you get a chance. Most of it is localized to the Adobe Pittsburgh Flash Users Group (PittMFUG) but it still might be interesting. My Pittsburgh brethren may find it more interesting…

Check out the podcast and listen to Asger from www.flashforum.dk to learn about what the Flash scene is like in Denmark! Thanks for all your kind words about the PittMFUG and for calling in!

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Direct Feed URL: http://www.pittmfug.com/podcast/podcast.xml. If you don’t listen to podcasts or subscribe you can always download the mp3 itself here.

Adobe has just released an awesome interactive/video application to celebrate 10 years of Flash history. Check out the Flash Anniversary Microsite to watch the videos (direct link)!

We had a great time at the PittMFUG Birthday Party for Flash – too bad the video wasn’t ready for then! Anyway, better late than never – great work!

I Pooted


You no doubt you have already seen this but I thought I’d share anyway. Something to make you smile. Genius self-promo from cartoon network imho.

If you have ever needed to have a Flash piece fill the browser and center the movie contents without stretching all while having a repeating background pattern that never ends then look no further!This class takes a pattern and repeats it using one of two methods. The first is repeating movie clips that display as needed in the background. This is great for Flash 7 and older. Small patterns can hurt resizing but I tried to help that out with a method in the class called destroyTiles. This gets called automagically so it should run pretty well. For you Flash 8 people out there I use the Bitmap Data object to handle the repeating background. This is very fast and very light on overhead. You just need to change the way you instantiate the class to jump from one version to the other.Example:


//Flash 7 – clip in library with Linkage ID of pattern_mc

//args(target mc, linkage ID, useBitmap?)

sb = new SeamlessBackground(bg_mc,”pattern_mc”,false);



//Flash 8 – bitmap in library with Linkage ID of wood_bmp

//args(target mc, linkage ID, useBitmap?)

sb = new SeamlessBackground(bg_mc,”wood_bmp”,true);

Notice that when using Flash 8 you have an image in the library with a Linkage ID, NOT a movie clip. Just right-click on your jpg or what-have-you in the library and assign a Linkage ID to it.There is also a method for centering another clip in the center of the window. It is basic but a nice addition to the class imho. You can set the clip like so:sb.setCenteredClip(logo_mc);Here is the class:


The direct link to the class is here. A demo of the class is available here. A downloadable zip containing an FLA is available here.

Recently I had a post requesting source for the demo of my Red Eye Reducer written in Flash 8. I thought I would post the class. I didn’t clean this up or make things pretty in it. This was a quick proof of concept – feel free to do with it what you like.RedEyeReducer.as