Author Archives: keith

March is JavaScript Month. And… Introducing WireLibJS

Posted on March 1, 2011 by keith

Over the last few weeks I’ve taken a deep dive into JavaScript and Canvas. It’s been a blast, a real eye opener and paradigm shift. As with a lot of other Flash developers, whenever I’ve thought about “HTML5” I’ve thought … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, Technology | 36 Comments

Run a Half Marathon With Me (in spirit)

Posted on February 12, 2011 by keith

[Edit] So, this might have been a great idea, but too little, too late, and would really need to make some kind of “click this button and record your message” application. And maybe someone bugging people go get it done. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 6 Comments

Ubuntu and Me, Happy Together.

Posted on February 2, 2011 by keith

I tweeted today about this being my second full day on Ubuntu and it a bunch of responses from people wanting to know how I did this or that, what my experience was, etc. So here’s the story. For a … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, Technology | 34 Comments

Dipping the toes into Canvas

Posted on January 27, 2011 by keith

Been wanting to play with this for a while now. It’s a lot of fun, in an old school, AS1 type of way. I have a lot to learn, but was able to whip this up in an hour or … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 18 Comments

More MinimalComps updates

Posted on January 27, 2011 by keith

A couple of things today. First is on adding content to Windows and Panels. By default, if you added a child to one of these, it would just add it like any other child, positioning it from the top left … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 2 Comments

MinimalComps Google Group

Posted on January 22, 2011 by keith

As suggested by Vic C, I’ve set up a Google Group for MinimalComps. Discuss, request, share. http://groups.google.com/group/minimalcomps

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 1 Comment

MinimalConfigurator.getCompById

Posted on January 22, 2011 by keith

Just added a new feature, as suggested by Karim in the previous post. This saves a hash of all components that have id attributes, and then allows you to find any component by its id. Here’s an example: [code lang=”as3″]package … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 4 Comments

MinimalComps Updates: Dark Style, HBox & VBox alignment

Posted on January 20, 2011 by keith

A couple of updates to MinimalComps. First, go over to soulwire and check out the great GUI tool created there. One thing that struck me about it was the dark colors on the components. I liked it and set out … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 10 Comments

SWFSheet 1.1 Final

Posted on January 19, 2011 by keith

Here’s the link. Haven’t actually added anything in quite a while, but haven’t had any bug reports or problems with it, so I thought I’d make it official.

Posted in General | 13 Comments

Introducing MinimalConfigurator

Posted on January 18, 2011 by keith

This is a concept I’ve had for a while, and last week started to implement it. It wound up being orders of magnitude simpler than I imagined. The core part of it was done days ago. I cleaned things up … Continue reading →

Posted in Components | 19 Comments