A very nice tip over there:
http://blog.comtaste.com/2008/11/how_to_know_who_called_my_acti.html

I was looking for class that would create a really cool lightning effect for me just like that, without having to deal with mathematics and co. Useless to say that when looking for such a thing, this will most likely end as a waste of time.
Well, I was wrong. I found this fabulous piece of art over there: http://blog.oaxoa.com/2009/07/27/actionscript-3-as3-lightning-thunderbolt-electric-discharge-class/
I take absolutely no credits for what I have done as it’s a pure copy of what this guy did. I just needed to re-do it in order to understand and see …

And the very last project I worked on is a promotional website for Samsung: http://www.samsung-3dtv.be/
Samsung is now promoting their new 3D Televisions and it was a great occasion to organise an event with plenty of things to win (like this Home Cinema full featured worth +- 6300 €) and a website with plenty of things to win as well (like this Home Cinema full featured worth +- 6300 €)… yeah I’m repeating myself, but it has been discovered that nothing else can be better to actually make you memorize something …

Launched a few months ago, here is the last project I worked on: Fanta Less Serious, a Youtube channel dedicated to “less serious” stuff…
So what’s the main purpose of this website ? sell more fanta… yeah but also entertain people. This channel regroups all the best fun videos on youtube and that’s pretty great actually.
A few words on the flash development though.
It isn’t really over glowing on the website but there is a smooth displacement effect on the big buttons on the home page (and other pages as well) that …

http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#/explore/TopRated
Just go and see, this thing is just great.
In a few words:
take a song of Johnny Cash (Ain’t no grave can hold my body down) and allow people to redraw each frame of the video clip. This gives a really good hand drawn video clip in black and white. All drawn by people from all around the world. My participation is at frame 44.

If your project compiles a bit faster than usual but doesn’t seem to work at all without even giving you any error. Or when debugging your project, it simply tells you that there is no actionscript code or something similar, you might want to have a look at this post first: http://blog.open-design.be/2009/05/27/5005unknown-error-when-optimizing-byte-code-bullshit/
And if this doesn’t solve your problem then you might have this problem:
Two symbols having the same Class name. I know, flash doesn’t allow that but when assigning a base class to a bunch of symbols, it might happen …

Well in fact, it is… or is it not ? depends on how you see it.
The trouble
If using masks or objects that have their “visible” property on true but “alpha” at 0.0, it is taken into account into the calculation of the bounding rectangle. Even objects that are outside of the masked area are added to it.
The solution(s)

During my search, I found a post from David Barlia: http://studio.barliesque.com/blog/2008/10/the-trouble-with-getbounds/. He uses a custom technique to approximately calculate the bounding area of a DisplayObject.

In that same post, someone proposed to use BitmapData …

Here is the “configuration”:

One main movie that loads external movies.
Externals movies that have stop() functions on their timeline.

When played alone, the external movies run perfectly. The stop() functions work well and everything’s fine.
But when loaded into the main movieclip, all the stop() functions stop working… (well in a way they work “too well”)
Reason:
Conflicting classes… (I suppose)
My external movies have a base class, let’s call it “ExternalMcBaseClass”.
In my main movie, I declare that my external movies are of the type of “ExternalMcBaseClass”. When I specify their type as a simple “MovieClip”, …

New official website for Jacques Dutronc. If you don’t know who Jacques Dutronc is, then check this link.
Jacques Dutronc (born April 28, 1943 in Paris) is a French singer, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since March 30, 1981, and the two have a son, (jazz guitarist Thomas Dutronc, born 1973).
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Dutronc

Not really much to say. For people like me, I mean people who expect to see “wow” websites all the time, this one will definitely not be one of them. But… there are actually …

New project for a Belgian design agency : Eye-Design. Nothing really fancy here except for the navigation system and the design which I think is really nice and sober.
The idea is simple, every section is contained in a circle. When you click on it, it smoothly gets bigger till it takes the size of the screen, then the section contained in it appears.
The system allows you to put as many sections inside a section and thus have as many sub-sections as you want. You even can put a section inside …