I went down a few algorithmic roads recently, digging into path finding and – for some obscure reasons – bit manipulations. Or byte. Whatever.
Along this way some utility methods (or functions) were born, and I thought: May be… Read more
As we all know Flash’s garbage collector is a hell of a beast. It tries to free memory from “unused” objects (aka objects not somehow cross-referenced by the root). So from time to time our garbage collector checks for those… Read more
Yesterday I had a presentation at the SFUG meeting covering some bits of my rewritten BBML framework (originated from the project laax.com). I’ve tried to share some insights into the technical concept and strategies for CSS parsing, CSS… Read more
This is a follow-up of this.
Yeah well, I was more than optimistic to show those JS guys how fast Flash can be with the help of some brand new Adobe magic – but Pixel Bender was, unfortunately, quite disappointing:
I did a quick port of a «graphic demo» called «metatunnel» (created by FRequency).
Paulo Falcão ported this to Javascript using canvas.
To make the set complete I ported Paulos JS version to Actionscript, just quick’n’dirty.
Click on it… Read more
GridFitType has a great impact on Text rendering:
Well not really much to say here:
- NONE Good for animation and people who prefer Font appearance over readability
- SUBPIXEL Good compromise between readability (small sizes) and appearance
- PIXEL Pure nonsense
I don’t discover as many bugs nowadays as I’ve used to in the old days when I was beta testing for Macromedia. But it happened today, and I’ve just installed the newest Flash Player 10.0.22.87 to be sure.
It happens… Read more
There’s still quite a gap between Flash and Flex – while Flash is great for creating animations, vector symbols and just keeping little assets within one place, Flex Builder is so very much better for anything code. So how to… Read more
I’m close to finishing a new project. Well, it’s actually not that new of a project, but it hasn’t gone online so far, and when I did the first version back in March I’ve used Papervision to achieve the goals.… Read more
Update: I’ve found an easier way without FlashCommand
Once you got used to developing for Flash in Flex Builder, you hate to do any programming in Flash IDE. Still you sometimes might have to: Flex Builder won’t allow to… Read more