Category: actionscript

  • 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 […]