I am very happy with the K2 wordpress theme (you’re watching it right now), beside having some pretty amazing browsing enhancements (I did not enable them yet, features like search results that appear as you type your search phrase, timeline view of your posts) it...
Glossy buttons in pure as3 code
I’ve been playing with the drawing classes, experimenting gradients and blending modes, and so I put together a small (basic) as3 class that generates a glossy button with pure code – no library assets. You can download the class here. The class constructor expects only...
PC is a blue screen in Mac networking icons
In Leopard’s (latest Mac OS) Finder networking, the default icon for PCs sports a typical error blue screen.. I love it : )
ResizeManager – simple scaling engine for MovieClips
Flash objects (SWF) can fill the entire Html body, and scale along with browser window as you resize it (it’s done by setting width and height attributes to 100% in the embed tags). However unless scaleMode is properly defined as well, the outcome may look...
scrollPane background customization – as3
I was trying to customize a scrollPane component (as3) and ran into some difficulties, I wanted to change the background of the panned area. The default background is kinda gray with rounded corners, I wanted it dark and strait corners. After far too much time...
window.onblur – strange behavior on browsers
About a year ago I posted an example for using externalInterface to start and stop sound inside flash, based on focus and blur events in the window. After recently receiving several comments and questions about strange behavior on different browsers, I decided to test the...
New year upgrades
After many troubles with my (old) hosting provider, along with the new year I finally moved to a new one, hopefully no more down times and mail issues..I grabbed the opportunity and also upgraded the blog’s WordPress to the latest version, and customized a K2 theme to fit my...
WordPress blog in flash – in SWX contest
I was going through the SWX PHP contest entries, and was so happy to find an entry under the API category for the WordPress platform by Benjamin Wiederkehr, it is something I was considering to do my self ; ), and can be really handy...
Hunting swf memory issues – take ‘em down!
In one of my current projects I’m experiencing a ‘memory waste’ issue, after a basic efficiency re-writing did not solve the problem, I began reading about how flash handles scope chains and memory, and found this very interesting article ‘Scope Chain and Memory waste in...
Cool recycled MacbookPro stand, do it your self!
Few days ago my good old 17″ Studio Display monitor died after almost 9 years of devoted service. It’s been about two years that my main computer is a MacBookPro, and the old G4 is nothing more than a file server & itunes jukebox.One thing...