Tag: Actionscript

Someone asked how to store a key value pair in HistoryKeeper recently, and this was my answer. History Keeper does not provide any state management features beyond the information you store on the actual deep link (URL hash). However, you should be able to use the deep link information to grab the data you need …...

UPDATE: I intended to post the source for this a long while ago (after cleaning it up), but I never got around to it. Here it is in it’s current state. I wanted to see how far I could push that exploding Actionscript 3.0 code – see if Flash could handle updating each animating pixel …...

Update: I posted a follow up an exploding video! Well I guess technically the pixels don’t explode as much as the DisplayObject explodes into pixels! I recently needed an effect that would make a bitmap image look sparkley, so I did some goggling, and game across a Firefly particle effect on a blog post belonging …...

Testing Flash apps in a browser can be cumbersome, but it needs to be done for some browser only functionality, such as deep linking and back button functionality – as well as checking other things that might change once you are out of the Flash “test movie” sandbox, and into the browser – things like file …...

A brand spanking new Beta 4 of unFocus.History Keeper is out, and ready for download! Download it from Google Code. (If you are wondering what happened to Beta 3 – I actually rolled that update about half way, and had it sitting in SVN for a while, but I never made the archive, or release …...

I made a promise on someone else’s blog to post the code for the Tetris clone I made a while back, probably in fatigue induced delirium, a little bit ago, so here it is in a new Google Code project called unFocus.Games. The post on bit-101 post was about game architecture. While developing the code for …...

I added an initial round of AS3 files to the SVN trunk to make HistoryKeeper more accessible from Actionscript 3.0. If you are feeling adventurous, feel free to check it out of the trunk, and give it a try. There is also a small resurrected Actionscript to Javascript communicator (eh, it’s totally new actually, but …...

So for some reason MouseWheel.SCROLL events don’t work on Mac OS X. There is a fix! Gabriel over at Pixel Breaker created a script which fixes it up nicely. The script did require some modification to get it to work with SwfHTML, since it was designed to work with SwfObject. It took very little modification …...

I thought the site needed a new coat of paint, and so I think Tetris is in order! Update: Moved to a separate page. Click to give flash focus – arrows move, up arrow rotates. There’s no start button, or end to the game – and no levels or scores either. But it’s a start. …...

Just a quick post. There have been a couple of fixes and changes that have gone into HistoryKeeper, SwfHTML and SwfShim that are now in the SVN trunk, as well as a few other issues that have been nailed down, and put into the issue tracker. Among the fixes are finally a fix for the …...

As you may have heard, Adobe recently released the first beta of Flash Player 10. It looks like unFocus.FlashPlayerInfo has been checking for single version digits, rather than multiple: [cc lang=’javascript’ ] _versionRaw.match(/Shockwave Flash (\d)\.(\d)/); [/cc] The fix is easy enough (I could swear I actually fixed this at one point too): [cc lang=’javascript’ ] …...

unFocus.History Keeper 2.0 Beta 2 is now available for download. Feel free to download, test and use the new beta. Here’s what’s new and fixed: History.js – There was an odd error, from a mixed up function, keeping History Keeper from working at all in the last release. It was the first issue reported by …...