2008-05-26: I fixed some parts of this port. For further details check the updated works post. Through a long web discovery session, i have come along the website of Jared Tarbell lately. If you aren’t familiar with his works you should definitely have a look. Needless to say i was very impressed by his procedural [...]

dragonworx, a user from the FlashDevelop message board took the time to write an SWC compilation plug-in for FlashDevelop. So, if you’re a FlashDevelop user and you’re looking to compile an SWC library you should definitely have a look at this. http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=2987 I personally have not yet put it to use as i am waiting [...]

I recently had to write a rather simple picture viewing application with a little twist. The image display had to be interesting looking, which means blends, filters and movement. In addition to that the display unit had to run in Full-HD resolution (1920×1080). Now i don’t know about your system, but with my Core2 Duo [...]

If you’ve been checking my blog regularly (yeah, right) you might have noticed that there have been no updates lately (yes i am really sorry). But i am very grateful for my 100 visits a month, so i have to give you something. Ok, just for the fuck of it, so you know i am [...]

So the other day i was trying to build the AsWing library with the Flex SDK. Sadly, i failed miserably. I didn’t even know where to start. How do you feed all the files into the compiler? What command line switches to use? So after reading basically every piece of documentation that Adobe has to [...]

Nothing special, yet fun, somehow. Control the direction and speed of the bubbles with the mouse. YAY \o/ Leftclick to start/stop. edit: Make sure you got the latest version of the Flash runtime (9,0,115,0)!

Here is a small function that will shorten a filename based on a weighted curve. I used a simple sine curve given the start and end of the filename the highest weights.

I ran into some trouble today with batch processing some files. I am processing a set of files, but it is possible that some of the supplied files are invalid. In that case i want to be able to pop up a messagebox and ask the user if he wants to retry, ignore or abort. [...]

I lately commited a new class to the AsWing Kit SVN. It enables you to display simple message boxes in AsWing based ActionScript applications. The class was modeled after the Windows API function MessageBox(). The repository can be accessed through http://svn.aswing.org/aswingkit