Category Archives: Flash

Redispatching Custom Events in AS3

Another one of those “I’ll blog this so 6 months from now, when I run into this again, I’ll remember that I blogged something about this and search my own blog for the answer” posts. 🙂 I ran into this … Continue reading

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Liquid Components

In recent posts I stated that the only general 3rd party UI component set for AS3 I knew of was the AsWing set. I was just reminded of the Liquid Component set, which looks very nice. Haven’t actually used them, … Continue reading

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How to Write Timeline Code

For any major project, you couldn’t pull me away from classes and an external editor. Nowadays it’s Eclipse and Flex Builder. Before that it was FlashDevelop, and before that PrimalScript. In general, I hate coding in the Flash IDE. But … Continue reading

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Mandelbrot Set in AS3

This was too easy. Copied the pseudocode from this page on Wikipedia onto the timeline of an AS3 FLA in Flash CS3, massaged it a bit, wrapped stuff in functions and added some data types, and came up with this: … Continue reading

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Line Golf

Remember LineRider? I don’t think this is related to it, but has a lot of similarities. http://www.candystand.com/play.do?id=18253 Pretty cool. But when I see stuff like this, I generally kick myself for not doing it 4 years ago. 🙂

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Speaking at FiTC Toronto 2008

Well, I’m on the speaker list, so I guess it’s official: http://fitc.ca/speaker_detail.cfm?festival_id=22&speaker_id=6174 FiTC Toronto is always a highlight of the conference schedule. I’m probably cutting back somewhat on my speaking this year, but wouldn’t miss this one. I’m really psyched … Continue reading

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MinimalComps v0.91

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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Cobwebs 2

A little variation. See full entry for SWF. Didn’t want to put up a whole bunch of running SWFs visible on the main blog page.

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Cobwebs

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sticky-logo.swf” width=”676″ height=”168″/] Kickin it BIT-101 Old Style Experimentation.

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Blogging: Relatively safe

http://xkcd.com/369/

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