Visual Gratis http://www.visualgratis.com An Ongoing Story About Why Two Heads Are Better Than One Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:52:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Support http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/11/12/support/ http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/11/12/support/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:52:31 +0000 Ed http://www.visualgratis.com/?p=152 No to 8

Support for our friends and all good folk. Art by the lovable Alex

]]> http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/11/12/support/feed/ One Of The Best TED Talks EVAR! http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/10/17/one-of-the-best-ted-talks-evar/ http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/10/17/one-of-the-best-ted-talks-evar/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:21:21 +0000 Ed http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/10/17/one-of-the-best-ted-talks-evar/

Hits rather close to home, we need some reforms =)

]]> http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/10/17/one-of-the-best-ted-talks-evar/feed/ The North Face Launch http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/07/the-north-face-launch/ http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/07/the-north-face-launch/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:18:02 +0000 Cat http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/07/the-north-face-launch/ It’s time to plug The North Face site e-com launch. This is my baby that had a gestation period of a normal human baby. In approximately 9 months from insemination, Fluid has launched a full redesign which includes The North Face’s first attempt at e-commerce. As of August 2008 our baby is a Leo. Check it out and shop for Gear!

thenorthface.com

The e-com launch and the kiosk design has been featured in the Aug 08 edition of Communication Arts! Buy it in stores to read up on why this is the best experience yet for TNF and it’s users!

]]> http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/07/the-north-face-launch/feed/ Disabling Mouse Events in AS3 http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/05/disabling-mouse-events-in-as3/ http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/05/disabling-mouse-events-in-as3/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:54:34 +0000 Ed http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/05/disabling-mouse-events-in-as3/ Took me a while to figure this out. In AS2, disabling a MovieClip was done by setting the enabled property for a MovieClip to false ( the enabled property is still there
but only for MovieClip’s Over, Down, and Up frames).

Over the fence to AS3 however, to disable an object from receiving MouseEvents, you have to set it’s mouseEnabled property to false.


Things to note, if the object is a DisplayObjectContainer( i.e. a display object that can hold other display objects Sprite or MovieClip ) this WILL NOT affect it’s children ( elements nested inside ). You have to manually disable each element. This gets a little tricky because if a transparent DisplayObject with children is say on top of a button. You would have to disable both the parent DisplayObject and the child(ren) that are directly ontop of that button for the mouse to actually trigger a MouseEvent on said button. Another solution would be to just use addChild( theButton ) to move the button on top of the DisplayObject, but I think the previous solution is better ( assuming the DisplayObject on top really doesn’t need any MouseEvents ).

]]> http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/09/05/disabling-mouse-events-in-as3/feed/ A Little Closer to a Pragmatic Web: Ubiquity http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/08/27/a-little-closer-to-a-pragmatic-web-mozilla-labs-ubiquity/ http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/08/27/a-little-closer-to-a-pragmatic-web-mozilla-labs-ubiquity/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:03:43 +0000 Ed http://www.visualgratis.com/2008/08/27/a-little-closer-to-a-pragmatic-web-mozilla-labs-ubiquity/
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Good God, why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?

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