Andrew M. Whalen » actionscript http://amwhalen.com Thoughts on the web, programming and other nerdery by Andrew M. Whalen. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:13:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Andrew M. Whalen Photography http://amwhalen.com/archives/2007/05/18/andrew-m-whalen-photography http://amwhalen.com/archives/2007/05/18/andrew-m-whalen-photography#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 16:08:19 +0000 Andrew http://amwhalen.com/blog/archives/2007/05/18/andrew-m-whalen-photography/ As my final project for my Interactive Web Animation (Flash) class this semester, I decided to make a web site. I’ve had the idea now for awhile to have a site that is just intended to showcase some of my better photography. In 2004 I started a photoblog, which lasted for awhile, but I grew tired of taking photos just for that. The next step was keeping an updated photo gallery, but with that the photos are too scattered and inefficient to scan through. My final project gave me an excuse to finally make a site that just has the best of the best, displayed in an easy-to-browse fashion.

Enter Andrew M. Whalen Photography. The site features a spiffy Flash version, and also an HTML version if your browser doesn’t have at least Flash Player 8. Even if you do have Flash Player 8, there’s an option at the bottom to switch your browsing session between Flash and HTML. The About section contains links to featured photography of mine. Eventually, I may want to offer some sort of print ordering of the photos, to see if the site can produce a little cash.

]]> http://amwhalen.com/archives/2007/05/18/andrew-m-whalen-photography/feed 0 Flash, _lockroot, Stage, and hitTest http://amwhalen.com/archives/2007/04/03/flash-_lockroot-stage-and-hittest http://amwhalen.com/archives/2007/04/03/flash-_lockroot-stage-and-hittest#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:35:35 +0000 Andrew http://amwhalen.com/blog/archives/2007/04/03/flash-_lockroot-stage-and-hittest/ While working on my portfolio project for my Flash class, I realized that _lockroot doesn’t help at all with Stage and hitTest when loading one SWF from another. I had to search around the Internet until I finally found something about _lockroot and hitTest on this guy’s blog. This is what I found to remedy the hitTest situation. This code overrides the hitTest function, and translates the coordinates to the global frame. It should go in the SWF that’s being imported.

MovieClip.prototype.oldHitTest = MovieClip.prototype.hitTest;
MovieClip.prototype.hitTest = function(x, y, sf){
	var obj = {x:x, y:y};
	this._parent.localToGlobal(obj);
	return this.oldHitTest(obj.x, obj.y, sf);
}

Warning: this still doesn’t work for the version of the hitTest function that takes in a MovieClip as its parameter. That’s that, and hopefully I won’t have that problem again.

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