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Archive for October, 2005

Battle of the component sets

Just a year ago we were stuck with v2 components, and lots were dissatisfied with this state of affairs. Well, behold, as there are an ever-increasing amount of contenders in the battle for component dominance.

The first commercial offering was in the AS2 arena was Keith Peters’ bit component set, now available through FlashLoaded. They’re lightweight […]

RFC: String repository and localization for Flash

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Recently there’s been discussion about loading settings files and strings on osFlash. I think it’s time we take a look at the issue of localization and come up with a standard way of handling things. I’ve seen various schemes for handling multi-language movies:

The copy-and-paste approach (ie: whenever the site is ‘done’ in one language, copy […]

Set radio button group command

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A small annoyance in the IDE is that if you create a group of radio buttons you have to go into each instance and set the radio button group name, unless you’ve copy-pasted the radio buttons. The solution: this simple command which allows you to highlight a series of radio buttons and set the group […]

FP8 experiment: Camera and DisplacementMap

I thought it would be cool if you could use a webcam as a displacement map source. That way you could warp stuff on screen in real time. In the end I ended up using the webcam as the image source as well. In that way it also ’senses’ contrast. It’s quite bizarre, even a […]