Chapter 3 of the best little free iBook (or now PDF) is available!

I guess I should update this blog at a faster rate than I’m updating this iBook. She’s kept me busy for sure this past week. But I’ve added a whole chapter on getting started with Cocos2D, which outta be a great companion resource for my current iOS students. And there might even be some things [...]

What would a CartoonSmart book look like?

I dunno. Because neither of us will probably ever see one.  But how about a CartoonSmart iBook??… you can read one today! Well part of one. Last Wednesday (so one week ago) I decided to really explore iBooks Author. It is the most intuitive program I’ve ever used. Like most of Apple’s consumer software, without [...]

Anyone play with PhoneGap yet?

Just curious if anyone out there has played with PhoneGap at all. Longtime student Marcus pointed this out to me today and it looks interesting. If you have, pop some comments up with your thoughts / whats possible / etc. This is probably the 3rd or 4th export-to-everything type platform I’ve been emailed about in [...]

Gesture Recognizer code and source files

Sometimes (like all the time) I forget to actually post some useful code on this blog. Well I was just pondering the epic usefulness of these relatively new Gestures Recognizers you can use in your iPhone or iPad apps, so here’s some code for ya (sample files) or you can read the meat of it [...]

DetectMobileBrowsers script gets an update for iPad

Hey I mentioned this site DetectMobileBrowsers.mobi a couple weeks ago when I was looking to divert mobile visitors to CartoonSmart to a different homepage than our Flash version, and I just got an email from the coder extraordinaire thats making that happen saying his script now includes iPads in the detection. If you want to read the [...]

Kripes, do I REALLY have to make a mobile CartoonSmart now?

So it looks like I’ll slowly undertake the annoying task of cloning CartoonSmart and all its easy-to-layout-and-publish-Flash-files, and converting them to mobile friendly pages. Which is something I should have probably done a year or more ago, but with the iPad releasing soon, I would at least like to see SOME version of my site [...]

My iPhone App is available!

. Yeah, my App is finally approved and downloadable! You can find out more details at ZombieAirStrike.com , or just Click HERE and jump to the iTunes Store. I’m planning on writing a lot more on the whole process of developing it and getting into the store, but since I’m being called to babysit, I’ll [...]

Flash through Javascript = Flash on the iPhone

My buddy just sent this link over, http://ajaxian.com/archives/gordon-flash-runtime-implemented-in-javascript . I haven’t tried out installing it, but boy, it sounds interesting.

View Cart button for Actionscript 3.

Okay the troubling question of the day was… what is the Actionscript 3 code to view the contents of your Paypal cart. Not add to the cart, but just view the Paypal cart. And it is…   viewCart.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, viewPaypalCart); function viewPaypalCart (event:MouseEvent):void { var url:String = ‘https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr’; var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); var paypal:URLVariables = [...]

Coloring HTML Text in Flash (Actionscript 3 quick code note)

Just figured I’d post this real fast. Its not much code, but I’ve been color coding a lot of htmlText in Flash this week and coincidently just got an email about doing so… var urlLinkColor:String = “CC4477″; var textToColor:String = “Rules”; var myTextVar:String = “CartoonSmart <font color=\u0022#” + urlLinkColor +”\u0022>” + textToColor + “</font>”; myTextField.htmlText [...]