Category Archives: Flash

"Double Buffering" with BitmapData

Posted on July 11, 2007 by keith

There’s an interesting discussion going on on the OSFlash list about what was originally termed “double buffering”, but is more accurately “offscreen buffering”. This is when you create an instance of BitmapData, but don’t add it to the display list, … Continue reading →

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FileFilter.macType

Posted on July 7, 2007 by keith

I was recently doing a bit of work with the File class in AIR, and in creating some dialogs ran across this “macType” property of the FileFilter class. The documentation is pretty scant on it, but a quick Google search … Continue reading →

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Hair v2

Posted on July 5, 2007 by keith

I was talking with John Grden after he saw my hair and we got on the topic of how sometimes you do something and everyone is saying how awesome it is, but as the creator, you can see every fault, … Continue reading →

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I won an Emmy!

Posted on July 3, 2007 by keith

No lie. A while back I posted about the Cyberchase Inventor’s Workshop I did all the ActionScript programming for. Cyberchase is a kids educational show on PBS, and I did the work for Thirteen. Well, turns out some aspect of … Continue reading →

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Hair!

Posted on July 2, 2007 by keith

No, not the musical. The Flash experiment. I did a static version of this in Flash 7, I think. Flash 9 rocks so damn hard I was able to animate it. (Lots of non-internet time over the weekend. New apartment, … Continue reading →

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Glow Filter

Posted on June 27, 2007 by keith

Ran across a cool use of the glow filter recently. Thought it would be fun to share. Basically, if you make a glow filter with a relatively small amount of blur, set to inner and knockout, it will just draw … Continue reading →

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Flash is just like…

Posted on June 27, 2007 by keith

http://www.little-gamers.com/

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I'm speaking at MAX!

Posted on June 26, 2007 by keith

Never been to a MAX before. While I’ve heard plenty of good things about them, they did seem to be kind of … different. Maybe not as … fun? Just an external impression. Anyway, Ted Patrick has taken over as … Continue reading →

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Flash Game, "Line Rider" on DS Lite and Wii!

Posted on June 20, 2007 by keith

No doubt you’ve wasted several minutes, or even several hours with Line Rider. When I first saw it, I kicked myself for not having thought of it. The orginal was done by Bostjan Cadez “…as a project I did for … Continue reading →

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Spider Defense Take 2

Posted on June 15, 2007 by keith

Had a bit of time to do a bit more work on this. Mostly graphic tweaks and a bit of code clean up. Code needs a lot more cleaning up before I think about adding new features. I got excited … Continue reading →

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