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  • RadioButtons & Damn Doctors

    Just a note about RadioButtons; they do some cleanup via an onUnload. What this means is, you can’t remove them (removeMovieClip/destroyObject) and immediately repopulate their depth until they have run their onUnload command. Therefore, it is an appropriate place to utilize a doLater (basically waiting 1 frame).

    A sore throat & 1 degree tempature; symptoms which cause panic hysteria at my house if my wife showcases them. Take her to the doctor, and they confirm it’s a minor virus, like a minor strep throat, that one can get easily, and isn’t infectious.

    BS. I have been hot as a mug (even with a semi-fixed AC) since 11:00, and my throat is sore. This ensures I’ll not be hitting that rave that was at the Compound this weekend and instead sitting at my parents house in the west-side version of middle of nowhere, getting fauned upon by mother who makes good coffee for her sick son, while I’ll fiddle with “experimental software” on the new wireless they don’t need, but I plan to setup for them whilst my her majesty is up north giving a baby a shower.

  • Wrong ClassID for Object Tag

    Some of you wrote me saying my site was telling you to install the Flash Plugin even though you already had it installed. Apparently, the MTGotoAndComment Flash form I use for comments to avoid blog spambots had a weird class id which caused havoc. My man Jeff found this, although, I’m not sure how. Regardless, it’s fixed now; sorry for the hassle.

  • Can’t wait for Zorn? Get FDT!

    The development tool for for Flash, FDT could replace the “A” in FAME. Typically, one would use ASDT (ActionScript development tool) for code hinting, coloring, and creation/recognization of ActionScript in Eclipse.

    They have a lot of great demos done in Captivate, and documentation if you care to read instead.

    Check it out!

  • Battlefield 2: Fix a memory leak with more RAM

    The problem with drugs is one knows they are bad, but they keep using them; repetitive, self-destructive behavior.

    Same thing with me playing Battlefield 2; it crashes EVERY GAME, but I enjoy it so much that I keep re-launching it. After removing the intro demo movies, the launch time is quick enough that I can get back into the action in 1 minute. However, I’ve already lost 1 keyboard, and got syrup on my carpet in response to the crashes…

    Upon a classic “sound repeats, game locks up”, I did a Control+ALT+Delete to see how much RAM & CPU BF2 was using. I noticed 387megs of RAM, which was extremely telling because I had ALL the settings down, but probably had left Tomcat (40 megs), Apache, and a plethora of other background services running, quickly filling up my 500 megs 1 gig of RAM.

    My guess is, once she hits the page file, she yukes. I installed and additional 500megs 1 gig of RAM last night bring it up to 1 2 gigs.

    No crashes.

    So, if you are sick of waiting for patch 3 of 15 to make the game even more playable, just get more RAM! (assuming you already have a beastly CPU & Video card)