Just finished version 2 of the pixel tools for Flash. The pixel tools are a set of JSFL tools that allow you to make pixel perfect drawings in the Flash IDE. These drawings won’t degrade when the player’s low-quality setting is used.
Version 2 brings quite a few enhancements:
New tool: Pixel eraser (thanks to Julian Dolce) New […]
I’m working on a video project and just bought the Proxus video component. I’ve had a lot of issues with Macromedia’s and so far the new one is working really great. The skin looks really good and it loads video like a charm. Saving a day of work (and frustation!) rebuilding one myself is certainly […]
Description by Paul Bourke: The solution to the Duffing equations is often used as an example of a classic chaotic system. The Duffing system of differential equations is:
where typically, a = 0.25, b = 0.3 and w = 1.
Simulating it in Flash is amazingly easy. This movie is less than 1 kb! Here’s the source.
There are a few reasons why you would use a TextField and UIScrollbar instead of TextArea: making the scrollbar a different size than the text, Inputting the text visually instead of through the component properties, and changing the look of the surrounding border. In the bit component set, VertScrollbar and HorScrollbar don’t have built-in TextField […]
I’m reorganizing my reading stack (I have more than a hundred books in an Excel file in philosophy, physics, math, biology and whatnot that are flagged to read eventually), and have been browsing to through my library for references to other books that I might want also need to read. The quality of bibliographies these […]