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as3: April 2008 Archives
Basically, its a really clever way of passing the content that you're overwriting when you use SWFObject directly into the flash. Super clean and requires only one data call. Handy for things like navigation bars, which while fancy in flash, can also easily be viewed (and indexed) without flash. Hats off, space150, hats off.
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Sometimes all you want to do is wait a few seconds to make a call to a given function, particularly when you're doing some sequenced animation. While this is certainly easier now that we've got the Timer instead of setInterval (*shudder*), it's still not a one-liner, especially once you take garbage collection into account.
That's where Delayer comes in.
- import com.squidder.delayer.Delayer;
- new Delayer( _testfunction , 3000 , "hello there" , 33 );
- function _testfunction( s:String , n:Number ) : void {
- trace( s + " , " + n );
- }
Simple enough! The only required variables are the function and the delay (in milliseconds). From there, you can pass through as many arguments you like, if any. There's also a cancel function, in case you're into that kind of thing.
Go grab it up over at our fancy Google Code project page.
TweenMax is the band new tween class, from the outrageously brilliant mind of Jack Doyle. It is the wonderful love child of TweenLite and TweenFilterLite and has some really excellent features, not least of which is the inclusion of bezier points, so we can finally and easily do some tweens on a curve.
Amazingly, Jack managed to pack all of this functionality in 8k (vs 3k for TweenLite), so serious hats off to him - I can certainly say we'll be using this from now on. Be sure to check out his comparison chart for full deets.
There are a slew of good options out there: Tweener, TweenLite, TweenMax, Go, and more, all with similar feature sets. So which one's the best?
We here at squidder have this debate often, with some devs who prefer Tweener and others who rely on TweenLite. Fortunately, there are others who have done the heavy lifting for us to give a numbers to numbers face-off.
My favorite point of comparison is the speed tester over at GreenSock. Although it was created by the author of TweenLite (so you could cry foul, I suppose, though it doesn't seem like there's any reason to), it seems to be the easiest way to quickly compare tweens in a real world situation.
For those of you interested in running your own test, you can roll over to the TweenBencher. Again, this is a tool created by one of the makers of a tween class (Go), but read that as you will. Regardless, the tool certainly puts out some good hard numbers.
Personally, I don't think you can go wrong with TweenLite TweenMax, but one thing is for certain: they're all better than the built-in tween classes.
Face it. Documentation is a total pain. Fortunately, generating it doesn't have to be. And while projects like NaturalDocs make things a little easier (and cleaner) to work with, there's nothing quite like a good ol' Adobe style, frame loving, totally unorganized doc folder.
Seriously, though. Commenting for ASDocs is extremely easy and ultimately a great way to go if there's even the slightest possibility that someone else might look at your code. Plus, it's standard and has a lot of great benefits, like showing up in introspection for those of you developing in FDT 3. And, if you are developing flash/AS3 in Eclipse, it's super easy to set up documentation generation at the click of a button. Screenshots and more after the jump.
Continue reading ASDocs and Eclipse: BFF.
That's where MoteDaemon, an awesome project out of Berlin, comes in. Ultimately, the plan is to integrate the tiny server application with the wiiflash.org library, but it updates have been spotty at best. To fill the gap in the interim, however, we have developed an as3 library based on Sebastian's javascript / as1/2 examples using the XMLSockets.
A very early version is available here and while we may not grow this library much beyond its current state -- hopefully we'll find a way to get into the wii flash library with a mac -- you may find it handy (or at least fun).
