Category Archives: ActionScript

MinimalComps 0.9.6

Posted on November 7, 2010 by keith

It’s been a while, but I finally got around to doing some work on MinimalComps. I went through all the issues that people had entered in Google Code. Some were older and already handled. Some were requests for new features, … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 9 Comments

AS3 Sound Synthesis IV – Tone Class

Posted on July 23, 2010 by keith

In order to make the code so far a little more reusable, I moved it over into its own class, called Tone. I also implemented some optimizations and other little tricks. The most important is that instead of calculating the … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 21 Comments

AS3 Sound Synthesis III – Visualization and Envelopes

Posted on July 21, 2010 by keith

In Part I and Part II of this series, we learned how to utilize the Sound object to synthesize sound, and how to create sounds of various frequencies. This post will just be a quick detour onto a couple of … Continue reading →

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AS3 Sound Synthesis II – Waves

Posted on July 21, 2010 by keith

This post will show you how to generate sine waves for specific frequencies using the AS3 Sound object. It assumes you have read, or are familiar with the data in Part I of this series. Basics of Sound Sound itself … Continue reading →

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Sound Synthesis in AS3 Part I – The Basics, Noise

Posted on July 21, 2010 by keith

I’ve been meaning to write something up on this for quite a while. It recently struck me that there still wasn’t a whole lot of good material on this out there already. So I figured I’d throw something together. We’ll … Continue reading →

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Scientific American

Posted on May 28, 2010 by keith

In the June 2010 issue of Scientific American, on page 58, there is an article entitled, “Is Time an Illusion?” by Craig Callender. You can see it here: The large artwork on the first and last pages of the story, … Continue reading →

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A few MinimalComp updates

Posted on April 16, 2010 by keith

Addressed all reported bugs and added a few graphical goodies. [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Updates.swf” width=”420″ height=”320″ targetclass=”flashmovie”] [/kml_flashembed] First is grids. The Panel now has a few new properties. Panel.showGrid turns on or off a grid drawn in the background. … Continue reading →

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MinimalComps: RangeSlider

Posted on April 2, 2010 by keith

I know I’m supposed to stop making new components and clean things up for 1.0, but this got in my head and I had to bang it out. It’s basically a slider with two handles. You get a lowValue and … Continue reading →

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Minimal NumericStepper

Posted on March 27, 2010 by keith

I wasn’t planning on doing this before 1.0, but I needed one and put a couple of buttons and an input text together for the project I’m doing. Then I needed another one elsewhere in the project. So I extracted … Continue reading →

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Encoding PNGs in AS3, asynchronously

Posted on March 27, 2010 by keith

Occasionally I make apps that create bitmaps and save them. To do so you need to use an encoder to turn the bitmapdata bits into a byte array that can be saved in some image format. AS3 has a PNGEncoder … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript | 17 Comments