http://www.flashgoblin.com Adobe Flash Tutorials Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:59:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are several text-to-speech packages out there. But thanks to Google Translate, you can create a sort of "poor-man's" text-to-speech application in Flash. The method is a simple query string to the Google Translate service, which returns an MP3. Simply load that Mp3 into Flash, and voilà. The draw backs ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=26 Attention all Flash developers in the Reading, Pa area!!! Be sure to check out the new Adobe Flash User Group in Reading. The Reading Flash Alliance is a group of Flash talent made up of local firms and freelancers who share ideas, knowledge, and talk shop. They are having a meeting ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=25 Ok so, in the beginning of 2010 I made a New Years resolution that I would learn one new thing each week and blog about it. Like most resolutions, it went for three weeks and then failed miserably. Now I would normally look at this as a failed attempt to ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=24 http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=23 This is part of my 2010 resolution of learning something new each week. I've been playing around with using ActionScript's BitmapData and FileReference classes. Use your webcam to position yourself in the frame. Then you can save an image to your hard drive. I still need to tweak some things, like ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=22 To build on my previous post about the Google Maps ActionScript API, I wanted to track the position of my iPhone in real time. I came across the site instamapper.com. After creating a free account with Instamapper and downloading their iPhone app from the Apple App Store, I was tracking ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=21 Incorporating Google Maps within Flash is one of those things that I always wanted to look into, but just never really had the time. Well it turns out that I actually did have the time, due to the fact that it only took me 10 minutes until I had a ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=20 A couple of areas that I'm trying to improve in are BitmapData and Trigonometry. Trig is really useful in Flash for working with angles and BitmapData can give some pretty cool effects. I started this example by making a MovieClip rotate around a center point. I know I could have used ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=18 For a while I have been wanting to focus on the areas of Flash where I am weakest. So what better way to step up my game than to make a New Year's resolution. My resolution: Once a week I will learn something new and post a blog entry about it here. ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=17 I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro that replaces my primary Dell desktop. But now that I'm on a Mac, I am no longer able to use Flash Develop as my ActionScript editor since its developed in .NET. So I've turned to Flex Builder 3 as my ActionScript editor of ... http://www.flashgoblin.com/?p=16