Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • CaptivatePlayer Article & Upcoming Features

    Macromedia graciously gave me the opportunity to write an article about my CaptivatePlayer, now up on DevNet, which is used to help Captivate users easily deploy their content to the web.

    I’ve received feedback from a variety of Captivate users asking for specific features. That said, when things calm down towards the end of June, I can hopefully add these 2 requested features to it.

    • Global Navigation vs. the per demonstration navigation that Captivate generates currently. Something akin to a DVD player’s chapter controls so you can jump to other demonstrations.
    • Ability to have the presentation automatically play the next demonstration, and have this ability be controllable through the XML and through the interface.

    CaptivatePlayer DevNet Article

    Thanks, Macromedia!

  • Killzone 2: OMFG!!!!!

    Yes, that’s real-time.

    I want a PS3 now please!

    Sony Press Conference Game Trailer – in WMV format.

    Via DJ Wrangla.

  • FAME Chronicles #2: TRACE (not trace) in MTASC

    One of the nice things about MTASC is it’s TRACE function. Utilizing the -trace compile parameter, you can map the TRACE function written in your ActionScript to a static class method of your choice.

    You get an additional 3 parameters passed to your trace:

    1. Full class package path and name with method
    2. File name of the class
    3. line number the TRACE command is at in your class

    You can get some really informative and nicely formatted trace messages now. Below is something I whipped up this morning to get it to look cool in Flashout; you can use this with trace too if you don’t use Flashout. Modify the tabs to suit.

    static public function coolTrace(str:String,
                                 classNameAndMethod:String,
                                 fileName:String,
                                 lineNumber:Number):Void
{
        var splitClassAndMethod:Array = classNameAndMethod.split(".");
        var classAndMethod:String = splitClassAndMethod[splitClassAndMethod.length - 1];
        var classAndMethodArray:Array = classAndMethod.split("::");
        var theClass:String = classAndMethodArray[0];
        var theMethod:String = classAndMethodArray[1];
        
        var theString:String = "message: \t" + str + "\n";
        theString += "\t\t\tclass: \t\t" + theClass + "\n";
        theString += "\t\t\tmethod: \t" + theMethod + "\n";
        theString += "\t\t\tfilename: \t" + fileName + "\n";
        theString += "\t\t\tline: \t\t" + lineNumber;
        
        //trace(theString);
        Flashout.debug(theString);
}

    The above, when tested, will give you something alone the lines of this:

    Pimp as hell, eh!?

    Thanks Kenny for inspiring me to get this to work! Now, if I can just figure out how to make the line # a hyperlink so if you click it, it’ll take you to the line number you clicked on in the correct as file…