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New PDF release: The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create

By Craig M. Vogel, Jonathan Cagan, Peter Boatwright

ISBN-10: 0131860828

ISBN-13: 9780131860827

The iPod is a harbinger of a revolution in product layout: innovation that goals patron emotion, self-image, and delusion, not only product functionality. learn the hidden tales in the back of BodyMedia's SenseWear physique visual display unit, Herman Miller's Mirra Chair, Swiffer's mops, OXO's potato peelers, Adidas' clever sneakers, the hot Ford F-150 pickup truck, and plenty of different profitable strategies. Meet the innovators, studying how they motivate and inspire their humans, as they shepherd their visions via company paperwork to ecocnomic reality.  The authors deconstruct the whole technique of layout innovation, exhibiting the way it particularly works, and the way today's smartest businesses are innovating extra successfully than ever prior to.

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When you extend the UIButton class, you can use this object to grab whatever data you need for the various methods you’ll be writing. You’ll see this in action later in the chapter. qxd 1/27/06 11:53 AM Page 25 A BASIC SELECTION SYSTEM public function init(_selectionSystem:SelectionSystem, _id:Number, _itemData:Object):Void: This is a public method called by the selection system after attaching the button to the stage. It takes three parameters: a reference to the selection system, a numeric ID assigned by the selection system, and a generic object that will be assigned to the preceding itemData property.

Tween. These packages contain simple-to-use methods for creating property tweens with your Flash objects. We use them fairly often in this and subsequent chapters, although you should certainly feel free to use whatever you’re comfortable with. shtml. Then we’ll make our class definition. Note that this class inherits all of UIButton’s functionality, and UIButton inherits all of MovieClip’s functionality. This concept is termed chain of inheritance in OOP-speak and is a great way to string along functionality to make superpowered classes.

You can adjust tweens with a graphical interface rather than relying on complex math calculations. qxd 1/27/06 11:49 AM Page 8 F L A S H A P P L I C AT I O N D E S I G N S O L U T I O N S : T H E F L A S H U S A B I L I T Y H A N D B O O K Flash vs. Ajax As previously mentioned, new Internet technologies have emerged recently that compete with Flash on the points we’ve just described. Many web applications these days (Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Flickr, to name a few) are employing one of these new technologies, Ajax, to give them a seamless, rich, software-like feel.

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