A math-challenged teacher sent me an email today asking how she could simulate Newton’s law of gravitation in Flash: namely, show the earth moving around the sun in an elliptical orbit. Since it’s a classical example of applying math to Flash programming, I figured I might help her and other people here.
Newton’s law of gravitation […]
When you work with plain HTML sites, you can use stats programs to get an idea of the behaviour of the users as they go through the site. When your site all Flash-based, you lose some information about user behaviour. Apart from the raw number of hits, there are a couple of things you might […]
Does anyone know how it would be possible to do remote logging in AMFPHP? If you use trace in FlashCom by some unknown mechanism the NetConnection debugger can catch the event. I’m looking to do something similar in AMFPHP. Anybody has any ideas how it works?
In the current CVS, I’ve hacked in a convenient trace-like […]
This one had my head scratching for a while. This flash movie had addresses written in Verdana as static text and while it showed up on stage, it didn’t show up on the exported movie. The text was set not to use device fonts and the aliased option was selected.
Looking at the size report, […]
Word is arguably the most frustating software ever if you don’t know how to properly use it. With practice it can actually be not so painful, if you use the semantics features appropriately. Most people use Word like they used bad-old HTML: no structure, mixing presentation and data. Here’s a quick tutorial on using Word […]