Month: May 2008

  • Belated blog from last week

    Ok, so all in all today wasn’t a bust. I think I walked away from each session with at least a couple new things to ponder about. Not so bad. ReflexUtil was one of those things. Looks to be a great debug utility.  Check it out yourself.

  • Flexmaniacs

    Ok so I’m in the first seminar for flex maniacs conference. While the keynote was pretty sweet, this skinning seminar is kind of lame. Let’s hope I get at least something out of it.

  • Utilizing FireFox Firebug

    FireBug, for those that don’t know about it, is a great little tool for debugging your apps online.  One of the many things you can do is use it as a logger. This is excellent for flash development debugging on the server as you can easliy utilize the console.log, console.debug, console.error, console.warn, and console.info. The […]

  • oh the randomness

    private function randomSort(a:*, b:*):Number { return Math.random()>.5 ? -1 : 1; } private function myFunc():void { var myArrayToSort = [1,2,3,4,5]; myArrayToSort.sort(randomSort); trace(MY ARRAY SORTED IS ‘+myArrayToSort) } Awesome way to randomly sort an array. I’m using this with the sliver movie to randomly place the clips in various positions so every time you watch the […]

  • oh man sweet

    So a little update with the video project. I’ve got things importing into the Sliver clips and tweening open yada yada.  Mostly all of the tweaks are externalized, i.e. the reavling time, duration, text x and y on the clip, but the most fascinating thing was what I just discovered.  I was aware of being […]

  • Where I am now…

    So for this project since I need all the text that will show up in the video to be externalized for language conversion, I have to load everything streaming. This will also cut down on loads times tremendously.  My first idea is to make this nice and quick and simple. I’ve got 2 classes that […]

  • latest work

    So lately I’ve been working a lot on the flash for the Luxury Collection brand site. This latest piece I’m finding interesting though. I have a week to complete a video in flash. Normally, I would jsut say “screw it” and be lazy with the tweening. Not this time though. Mainly, because the video needs […]

  • Adding Component Usability from Flex to Your Actionscript Project

    Today I was in need of a quick alert box but realized the mx.controls.Alert is not included in the accessible packages when creating an Actionscript project. Well, after a bit of searching I found it was really quite easy. Though I imagine it bloats your app due to the component libraries added. Here it goes: […]

  • More info

    I was intrigued by yesterdays talk on this AS3 physics engine so I went looking for stuff. Apparently, on top of the APE engine for 2d there’s a 3d engine called the Wow Engine. http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/as3-3d-physics-engine-wow-engine/ I’m still in the process of checking out the APE engine but we’ll see how that pans out and this […]