Category Archives: Flash

Frameworks vs. Toolkits

Posted on August 20, 2009 by keith

Today on Twitter, Robert Penner posted a couple of really interesting links… http://theshyam.com/2009/08/is-inheritance-overrated-needed-even/ and http://code.google.com/p/noop/wiki/ProposalForComposition This got me in a researchy mood about inheritance vs. composition, and I dug up this great series of interviews with Erich Gamma (one of … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Objective C | 29 Comments

MinimalComps advanced Color Chooser

Posted on August 14, 2009 by keith

Well, we have the first major contribution by someone other than myself. Rashid Ghassempouri decided to revamp the color chooser to allow for a color panel popup so you can choose a color with the mouse. Actually, he added all … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 15 Comments

Making Things Move in London

Posted on August 14, 2009 by keith

My good friend, Tink, has been bugging me for close to a year to come to London and do a training workshop for the London Flash Platform User Group. I finally gave in since I’ll be in the neighborhood next … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Conferences, Flash | 1 Comment

Matrix3D bug? or me confused?

Posted on August 12, 2009 by keith

I assume the latter… Anyway, trying to wrap my head around AS3’s Matrix3d class. In particular, the pointAt method. This supposedly, “Rotates the display object so that it faces a specified position.” Here’s the class I’m using for testing: [as]package … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 7 Comments

MinimalComps now in wonderfl

Posted on August 12, 2009 by keith

I just noticed that my Minimal Components have been added to wonderfl. http://wonderfl.net/blog/2009/08/added-some-libraries-and-checkmate-vol2-started.html If you’re not familiar with wonderfl, it’s a site that allows you to type ActionScript into the page and compiles and runs it right there. You can … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 8 Comments

MinimalDesigner 0.04

Posted on August 11, 2009 by keith

Now with full class generation. 🙂 Even generates empty event handlers if you specify an event. I actually went through and refactored all those nasty long conditionals into strategies. That worked nicely. Now when i release the code, you won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 8 Comments

MinimalDesigner … um … Alpha?

Posted on August 10, 2009 by keith

I don’t know what you want to call it, but I wrapped up the rest of the properties panel and plain vanilla code gen. VERY minimal testing, so let me know what breaks, as I’m sure something will. Tomorrow I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 7 Comments

MinimalDesigner working preview

Posted on August 9, 2009 by keith

Go check it out! http://www.bit-101.com/MinimalDesigner/ Still lots to do. As far as the properties panel goes, the first column should pretty much work. The second column partially works. The others, not at all. As far as code generation, it just … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 11 Comments

MinimalDesigner

Posted on August 9, 2009 by keith

Ooh, look what I am playing with…

Posted in ActionScript, Components, Flash | 5 Comments

The Need for AS3 (non-Flex) UI Components

Posted on August 9, 2009 by keith

Am I the only one to notice a gigantic gap in the Flash Platform? I’m talking about the lack of AS3-only UI components. Currently there are three main ways to create a Flash application. 1. Use Flex and MXML in … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 21 Comments