Category Archives: Components

New MinimalComp component: Window

Posted on August 5, 2009 by keith

To celebrate my return to the world of Flash, here’s a new component to go into the Minimal Components set: Quite simple, just two panels and a label, made draggable. I created a simple version for a level editor I’m … Continue reading →

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New MinimalComp: WheelNav

Posted on November 18, 2008 by keith

This is an idea I got from this article: http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/pie-in-the-sky/ I read it a while back, but was recently thinking of ways to make a decent 3D interface. Not an interface that is in 3D, but an interface that allows … Continue reading →

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New MinimalComp: The Knob

Posted on July 31, 2008 by keith

Chuck Freedman will be happy to know the knob is back. I needed it for an idea I’m exploring, so here it is: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/knob.swf” height=”240″ width=”250″ /] It’s got a pretty good feature set. You can change the mouse … Continue reading →

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Minimal Comps in the wild

Posted on July 9, 2008 by keith

Eugene from inspirit.ru just sent me this link to his ASCII screensaver engine that is using my Minimal Comps. Nice to see your stuff out in the world. 🙂 http://www.inspirit.ru/exchange/ascii_saver/

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CS3 Component Glitch #3

Posted on April 7, 2008 by keith

As I’ve mentioned, I’m building out the UI component set for Ribbit. There have been quite a few setbacks on this process, the biggest ones being bugs in the Flash IDE itself. I’ve already blogged about the problems with inspectable … Continue reading →

Posted in Components, Flash | 11 Comments

New MinimalComps. And now on Google Code

Posted on April 6, 2008 by keith

I know people are using these. It’s fun randomly running into them here and there on the web. I even have people submitting changes and fixes for them. And, I’ve been continuing to add to them. So it’s time to … Continue reading →

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Popforge + MinimalComps = MinimalSynth

Posted on April 5, 2008 by keith

A couple of nights ago I downloaded the Popforge audio library and had a play with it. I couldn’t get a peep out of it. But then last night dug around a bit more and found the sample files in … Continue reading →

Posted in Components, Flash | 10 Comments

CS3 Component Parameters – defaultValues

Posted on March 4, 2008 by keith

The first CS3 component tip is really a bug in the authoring environment. It has to do with inspectable getters and setters and default values. These are done pretty much identically to the way they were done in the old … Continue reading →

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CS3 Component Tip Series

Posted on March 4, 2008 by keith

As I mentioned a week or so ago, I’m working on the Flash CS3 UI components for the Ribbit service at Infrared5. They are going to really rock. Already, we have a few basic components that you can drag right … Continue reading →

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MinimalComps v0.91

Posted on January 16, 2008 by keith

Get the new version here: MinimalComps v0.91 A few additions and changes. Now you see the VUISlider and HUISlider, which contain a label, slider and value label with settable precision, and a basic Text component. Many of the components take … Continue reading →

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