Explore Rabbit Fall

Explore Rabbit Fall Part of a really exciting project I’ve been working on at Tactica with TAG Communications, is an interactive map for the Canadian television series Rabbit Fall. For us, developing the Flash content has been a pleasure working with talented designers and 3D artists. We’re also very excited about some upcoming features of the site we’ve been working on. Tweet Read More

Error #2035: URL Not Found – a fix to the problem

Ok, so the Adobe docs say: var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler); But thanks to the FlashKit forums: var pictLdr:Loader = new Loader(); pictLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imgLoaded); I realize these are two different classes, but the docs on this type of thing are just so poor. Nevermind the horror that you can’t catch AN IO ERROR in a try catch block. Hopefully... Read More

Flash Nightmares

Whenever someone asks me to work on a Flash project that someone else started, I try really hard to wake up. It’s never good. I try to kid myself that maybe the code will be organized, maybe there will be comments, maybe I won’t find anything held together with duct tape. Ok, once or twice I’ve been pleasantly surprised, but most of the time, this is what I’d like to tell my predecessors: External scripts – not only... Read More