Recently we have had a bit of time to play around with one of Google’s newer experiences, the Google Hangout. For kicks we wanted to see what all could be done with the platform. So we devised a Testbed and AS3 Bridge to flash. This allowed us (and now you) to explore all of the nooks and crannies of the Google Hangouts System. Plus, floating green dots that follow your face are just plain fun. Click through and check out the post and source to have a play!

A cover flow is a great way to display and browse through discrete content. It feels like flipping through a magazine: easy and fast, but informative. Its a natural addition to many user interfaces, but many existing implementations are like black boxes with strict display rules. You add in your elements, and you end up with iTunes 7. We needed something more generic and reusable; those were the priorities. We take a look at the built in transform property of a DisplayObject, and how that can be used to build an flexible flow

We have finally managed to get everything together so that we can release the Alchemy Source Code to our Ogg Vorbis Encoder/Decoder library for Flash! Hit link from the post and start getting your hands dirty with the source!

This episode is a bit of a catch all for some other random things that we wanted to cover in this series, like multiple file libraries, async functions, and Flash access from C. The hope is, by the time you are done reading this post (along with the last 4) you will be able to start build swcs of other libraries, or even creating your own directly in C. If this ends up being the case, please let us know, we would love to see what you guys make! Anywho, on with the show…

This week, in Part 4 of our Alchemy Series we are exploring Data Management and Manipulation from Flash to C and back. We cover keeping state inside of Alchemy code, as well as dealing with ByteArrays as File Streams and other basic data handling.

In part 3 of our Adobe Alchemy series we finally dive into some C code, and get an example up and running from scratch. You will be exposed to words like “thunk” and “bash” and not be referring to a bad cave man joke. Oh, and you will also make calls to C functions from Flash

Part 2 of our Alchemy Series will get you all set up to start building and porting your own C libraries to Adobe Flash. The initial setup seems to scare a lot of people off, so we tried to do a very easy to follow step by step guide to getting the Alchemy Development Environment up and running. Check it out, and get started having fun with Alchemy! You know you want to