Over the last three years, we have invested a great deal of time into JSFL extensions, panels and other time-saving utilities for use on internal projects. Over the next few weeks, we hope to finally publish a bunch of these extensions to our site and invite anyone interested to download, share and comment on them. To kick it off, here are the first two extensions…
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Flex Bug with List and toString
I stumbled on this simple and interesting bug with the List component in Flex: Adding an item with a label of “toString” to a List component will break the List, and take down much of your application with it. Just add the following to a new or existing mxml app…
Understanding DisplayObject.scrollRect
I recently learnt a lot about the specific mechanics of how DisplayObject.scrollRect works in the current player… but scrollRect really becomes useful when you combine it with cacheAsBitmap. This can be used to gain really substantial performance benefits.
John Grden’s New Blog
I rarely blog about blogs, but for John I’m happy to make an exception. He’s always coming up with crazy ideas and working on neat things with Flash and Flex, so I’d definitely recommend keeping an eye on his blog…
Great Pumpkin Showdown v3.0
Following our tradition of beer-and-candy-fueled jack-o-lantern carving, we broke into teams and started the carving and smack talking (in about equal proportion), we wound up with: FrankenFriends (Frankenstein and some spider pals), Jack Skellington (from the Nightmare Before Christmas), Grumpkin (one angry pumpkin), and PumpkInvaders (Space Invaders meet squash). Vote for the one you like best
AS3: Music Visualization Demos with computeSpectrum
Two music visualization demos using the new computeSpectrum feature in ActionScript, using the drawing API and BitmapData / Filter effects.
FITC Goes Hollywood
I’m getting ready to fly down to LA to speak at FITC Hollywood next week. The event should rock – FITC is always fun, but with a focus on the entertainment industry it should be a blast! Definitely not one to miss out on. It’s pretty exciting that FITC is starting to expand to new […]
Blazing Blazes!
The Blaze (Flash 9 codename) logo with some bitmap fire fun.