AS3: runtime font loading (embedding)

posted in ActionScript on 2011-04-25   font field loader import flash swf public static const format font_export_name string font_file_name class

Flash is wonderful technology and has many advantages. Before a couple of years it was really popuplar to use it for displaying fonts that are not installed on the user's machine. Flash is still powerfull tool for such kind of tasks. These days I worked on a project which had to use a lot of fonts. It wasn't possible to embed all of them so I decided to implement runtime embedding.

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Mighty Antlers

posted in Inspiration on 2011-04-13  

Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.Story: a man drives his car furiously down a narrow road, surrounded by a vast forest. When he encounters a deer in the middle of the road he makes a villainous attempt to ram it. However this particular hit and run has jaw crushing, battering consequencesBy: Sune Reinhardt, Mikael Iln?s, Michael L. Fonsholt, Jouko Keskitalo

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AS3: converting XML to JSON object

posted in ActionScript on 2011-04-02   label url image xml id img cdata node var version xml2json class http site int childnode object

I'm absolutely sure that you are using external data in your flash/flex applications. It is a good practice to transfer information in XML format. Most of the projects that I'm working on also use XML and in most of them I have a class that converts the data to JSON object. The problem with this workflow is that the parser's logic is always different because the XML is different. These days I wrote a class that solved this problem and directly converted every given XML file to a JSON object.

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FlashDevelop scripting: open file by name (part 2)

posted in ActionScript on 2011-03-29   file results script open

After a couple of days of using my script for file opening I decided to rewrite it and add more functionalities.

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FlashDevelop scripting: open file by text selection

posted in ActionScript on 2011-03-20   file script projectpath system path text private static string plugincore

FlashDevelop is one of the most preferred editors for the flash development. I've been also using it last few years. I found it helpful for writing JavaScript, HTML, CSS and PHP code as well. I just took a big project with over 1000 php files and it is a little bit difficult to open the right file, even by using the Project panel. That's why I decided to invest time in solving this task and found that I can write my own C# script and run it.

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Modular Marble Machines

posted in Inspiration on 2011-03-15  
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Convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML and reach more devices

posted in ActionScript on 2011-03-13   html supported wallaby reach

"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML. This allows you to reuse and extend the reach of your content to devices that do not support the Flash runtimes.

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PHP: add text to transparent PNG image

posted in PHP on 2011-03-10   im digit image png font originalimage php width

Simple way to produce numbered image with PHP. The script uses PHP GD.

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First person view of a mountain bike race in urban Chile.

posted in Fun on 2011-03-04  
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OOP in JavaScript (part 2)

posted in JavaScript on 2011-02-22   child function parent prototype getname superclass parentclass childclass prototype extend child parent getname function return

I already wrote an article on this topic (Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript (Extending / Inherit classes)), but last few days I realized that there are some things that I didn't explain.

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