Category Archives: ActionScript

Flash and Me

Posted on April 23, 2014 by keith

Today I tweeted a link to another stupid linkbait article proclaiming that Flash is dead. Of course, this set off a huge flurry of tweets about whether or not Flash is still breathing. And it made me realize that I … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 90 Comments

Syntax

Posted on April 14, 2011 by keith

Doing some Android dev these days. Needed to check if a editable text field was empty or not. I had to dig around to find out how to do this. It turns out that an EditText’s getText() method returns an … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash, iPhone | 37 Comments

Ubuntu and Me, Happy Together.

Posted on February 2, 2011 by keith

I tweeted today about this being my second full day on Ubuntu and it a bunch of responses from people wanting to know how I did this or that, what my experience was, etc. So here’s the story. For a … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, Technology | 34 Comments

More MinimalComps updates

Posted on January 27, 2011 by keith

A couple of things today. First is on adding content to Windows and Panels. By default, if you added a child to one of these, it would just add it like any other child, positioning it from the top left … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 2 Comments

MinimalComps Google Group

Posted on January 22, 2011 by keith

As suggested by Vic C, I’ve set up a Google Group for MinimalComps. Discuss, request, share. http://groups.google.com/group/minimalcomps

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 1 Comment

MinimalConfigurator.getCompById

Posted on January 22, 2011 by keith

Just added a new feature, as suggested by Karim in the previous post. This saves a hash of all components that have id attributes, and then allows you to find any component by its id. Here’s an example: [code lang=”as3″]package … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 4 Comments

MinimalComps Updates: Dark Style, HBox & VBox alignment

Posted on January 20, 2011 by keith

A couple of updates to MinimalComps. First, go over to soulwire and check out the great GUI tool created there. One thing that struck me about it was the dark colors on the components. I liked it and set out … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 10 Comments

SWFSheet – create sprite sheets from SWFs

Posted on January 10, 2011 by keith

[EDIT: Just released a beta of SWFSheet 1.1 here: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2948] [EDIT: Version 1.1 final released: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2977] SWFSheet is a program I created in most of a day back in late December. I finally polished it up this week and it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C, Silverlight, Technology, Windows Phone 7 | 56 Comments

Good bye 2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by keith

As usual, it’s time to make my year end post. I’ll keep it relatively brief. A few changes this year. This spring, I got kind of fed up with Apple, their control-happy policies, and the general direction they are heading. … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C, Silverlight, Technology, Windows Phone 7 | 8 Comments

Using MinimalComps’ Scrollbar

Posted on December 20, 2010 by keith

The scrollbar component in minimalcomps was never really meant to be used as a standalone component. This is not to say that it can’t be, it’s just that the interface doesn’t really have the same simplicity and ease of use … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components | 6 Comments