Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

Category: Flash

  • Roogle

    BTW, I found that previous article’s site via the new Blog/Weblog/Journal search engine, <a href=”http://www.fuzzygroup.net/roogle/” target=”_blank”>Roogle</a>. Not bad for a first impression of a search engine. They say they are gonna change the name, but anyone in software development knows the name never changes… that’s why programmers freak out when they can’t come up with a variable name that fits.

    Was searching for the word <b>flash</b>, and it came up.

    References:
    <a href=”http://www.swfnews.com/?storyID=37″>http://www.swfnews.com/?storyID=37</a>
    <a href=”http://www.hypermind.dk/blog/archives/000045.html”>http://www.hypermind.dk/blog/archives/000045.html</a>

  • Lonely Guy on a Sunday Night?

    Rated PG-13 (in US terms, anyway)

  • Dynamic Masks

    Some people had asked for this file today. I emailed it to them, but just in case anyone is interested, I was playing with dynamic masks in Flash last summer. <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/downloads/JXL%20dynamic%20masks.fla”>Here is the file</a> (or you can download from the left).

    As I look at the code, and I balk at how it’s written, it’s nice to know I’ve improved. Why is it programmers always look at their code and go, “Who in the f)*$% wrote that!?! … oh… I did…”

  • New Flash Player: 6.0r79

    <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/releasenotes/player/rn_6.html”>http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/releasenotes/player/rn_6.html</a>

    <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/downloads.html”>http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/downloads.html</a>

    I have sumarized the Flashcom stuff, so check the link above for exact changes.

    <b>Flashcom</b>
    – better audio and video syncronization from Flashcom
    – better video framerate in live mode
    – better audio latency in live mode (fewer gaps)
    – new NetStream property in live mode called <code>liveDelay</code> which shows how much audio delay you are experiencing because of varying network delays
    – syncronization of buffered FLV’s between video, audio, and data is now more precise (pre-recorded FLV’s)
    – stream time property is now more smooth in changing whereas before it increased in steps

    <b>Time Zone Fix</b>
    – Fixed invalid daylight savings time offset in the southern hemisphere.

    <b>Nested Masks with Device Text</b>
    – Fixed rendering bug with device text and nested masks. This issue was only present on Windows XP.

    <b>Screen Reader Crash</b>
    – The Windows Tablet PC Operating System ships with the Screen Reader ?Speak Text? on by default. This system along with others that rely on a screen reader were experiencing a crash on certain web sites. This issue has been resolved.