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Archive for December, 2004

Pixel Tools extension

( JSFL )

Update: v2 available

The pixel tools allow you to create pixel perfect shapes that won’t degrade when the low quality setting is selected.

The pixel rectangle tool creates a rectangle that snaps to pixels and has a border made of fills.

The pixel line tool creates an aliased line out of fills. It can snap to horizontal, vertical, […]

Modified sinewave tool

( JSFL )

Based on Keith Peters’ sinewave tool, it uses curves instead of lines to render the sine wave, drastically reducing the number of segments needed for a decent curve (from 100 to about 6). A tutorial on actionscript.org is available for the math background on this tool.

Note: I’ve tried to contact Keith several times for his […]

Resource backlog

( News )

I’ve decided to scrap the old sections on the site outlining all of the useless stuff I’ve done over the years to bring everything to this blog, which makes more sense to me. You can see these in the links, downloads, open source movies, etc. categories on the right side. Also I get to use […]

From XML to Remoting

( News and Remoting and Actionscript and PHP )

I had to rework some functionality in a movie I made for a client a long time ago, a dealer locator. The backend was originally handled by PHP and sent back to Flash in XML, an ugly but working solution. Since I’m developping AMFPHP 1.0, I decided to switch over to Remoting and see how […]

Quick tip: Manual virtual hosts on Windows Apache

( PHP and Misc. )

I write a lot of php/mySQL apps on a Windows environment. Instead of deploying scripts to a test server, I test them locally through an installation of Apache with PHP and MySQL. I was getting tired of changing the httpd.conf file every time I switched projects, so I did some research and found a nice […]