So after about 400 lines of code writing my own video player, I decided to scrap it. We were having some serious issues with NetConnection and the video only working half the time. I spent way too much time debugging and finally had enough.

The component took 8 lines of code to get working…

Skinning is the same as it was in Flash 8, which is kind of dissapointing considering what an amazing job gskinner.com did with the skinning of all of the other components. I don’t know what Adobe was thinking, not letting them take a crack at the video player as well. Oh well, at least we have a mostly functional video player now..

http://www.jarringsenses.com/courses/nmtp/mediapane/MediaPaneComponent.html

Here’s a nice update to the MediaPane. Lots of bug fixes after an impromptu usbility test, plus every image preloads properly. I’ll keep the bugsquashing coming…

http://www.jarringsenses.com/courses/nmtp/mediapane/MediaPanePrototypePreloader.html

Well, I finally got into AS3, and I must say, it is awesome. The learning curve is steep, especially if you’ve been doing AS2.0 for a while since a lot of little things have changed that will trip you up, but the benefits far outweight the negatives.

We’re doing our Senior Project in AS3.0 as a result, so I did a little test app to get started. It’s a pretty simple gallery, but it also incorporates deep linking, so browser buttons work and you can bookmark individual pages to go back to them later. Check it out…. (Flash 9 Player required)

http://www.jarringsenses.com/courses/nmtp/gallery

Finished writing the trig and methods to get the carousel working with the adding and removing of connections. You click on the + symbol to add a connection and click on the icons themselves to remove them.

Final Prototype

Welcome to the Labs section of Jarring Senses. Here you will find some of the many experiments that I’m working on at the moment to test the viability of projects in the future.

My name is Joseph J. Schmitt and I am a 4th year New Media
Design and Imaging major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I am proficient in Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, 3D Modeling and Animation, Web Development, XHTML/CSS, and Flash. I enjoy the entire process of design, from the beginning of an idea to the follow-through on the implementation.

Please visit my Portfolio to see my work, or the Labs section of my website to see some of the recent things that I am working on.