Archive for the ‘Programming & Design’ Category

How To Use The Type Tool In Photoshop

photoshop-icon If your are a fresh man for the Adobe PhotoShop, the following series simple tutorials will help you entry the PS world easily. In this tutorial, we will introduce the type tool —which allows you to pick a font, size and make other changes to your text, you can easily add text to an image or a blank document with PhotoShop Type Tool. Now let’s start.

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Example How to Use Buttons(UIButton) in XCode for iPhones

Button-Log-Off-icon An instance of the UIButton class implements a button on the touch screen. A button intercepts touch events and sends an action message to a target object when tapped. This class provides methods for setting the title, image, and other appearance properties of a button. Here is just a very simple example on how to use Buttons (UIButton).

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Pros and Cons of Flash Designing and What is New in Flash Designing?

pros-vs-cons The pros of Flash design are easy to see from a human point of view. If a site loads as a whole entity then it’s quick and simple to get around. That said, a browser often thinks that the Flash site is a single page no matter how many levels into the site you’ve gone: so if you hit the back button on your browser when you are several “pages” into a Flash site you end up going back to the site you were at before you loaded the Flash one.

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50+ Very Useful Javascript Effects for Web Developers

File-Adobe-Dreamweaver-JavaScript-iconHere we have prepared a long list for Javascript effects. It include effects like photo gallery, social network, making graphical plots, creating tool tips and so on. If you are a web developers, you will not miss this list. You may get some inspiration from them. Now let’s start.

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10 Unit Testing Frameworks for Flex/Flash Applications and Libraries

bug-icon Unit test is an important stage for an project. For Java projects, we can use the great unit testing framework such as JUnit, for C++ project, the similar tool CPPUnit also be used popularly. For ActionScript developers, are there similar frameworks for us? That’s sure, here is a collect of unit testing frameworks for Flex and Flash applications and libraries. Enjoy!

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68 Small but Useful Open Source ActionScript Libraries(misc) help Flex/Flash Developers Improve Work Efficiency

Folder-Library-icon We prepared a list of Misc Class in pervious article 8 Useful Misc ActionScript Class. There are more and more open source projects floating around all over the place, it’s real beauty for all Flex/Flash developers. Here is a new list open source ActionScript 3 MISC libraries – all of them are small but very useful. Please don’t stint your time to try, these libraries can help you to improve your develop efficiency faster.

Please left you comment to help consummate this list if you feel I missed anything.

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How To Track Loader Progress in AS3

1-Pictures-icon We introduced three ways to load an image file in Flex in previous article. Normally there are no any problem with loading progress of external files. You can add an event listen(Event.COMPLETE) to monitor if it is complete then do something, but if you also want to do something when any errors were caused on the loading, what should we do? Below is the sample source code on how to track Loader process in AS3:

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4 Ways To Preload Images With CSS or JavaScript

File-Adobe-Dreamweaver-CSS-01-icon If you use an image for the background image of an element on a mouseOver or :hover event(for example, navigation menu which images are used), the image will not load until the first :hover event if you only apply that background-image in the CSS for the :hover state. The preloader will help you with this! It’ll load those images when the page loads and stores them in your browsers cache. So avoid delays with rollover effects. In this article, you’ll learn 4 ways to preload images with CSS or javascript technique.

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