Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Fields in Flashcom

    Captured this video of one of my Half-Life 2 maps that I made to showcase an issue with Flash/Flashcom’s video. I’m not sure if this is a setting on my end in terms of hardware, if it’s the capture settings software wise, or what, but I do know I only see it at high resolutions, typically 640×480.

    No one the Flashcom list yet knows what I’m talking about; I posted this example there so they could see exactly what I’m talking about. It’s not the whole file… both my Mediatemple and Fusionlink servers time out after 10 megs… wtf. WS FTP, Dreamweaver, it doesn’t matter, they both get connections reset.

    Anyway, if you know, it’d be nice to know what I could do, thanks!

    HL2: Tubes Map Fields Example Video

  • Firefox Tip: Middle Mouse Click Opens Link in New Tab

    As the title states, if you click on a link using middle-mouse click, Firefox will open it in a new tab. This is awesome for Google searches as you can open the first 10 results in tabs, and proceed to the next 10. Once you have 20 open, you can Control + W, and start reading your results to your search.

    Also works good for Blog Aggregators, like Fullasagoog.com for instance. You can pick entries you wish to read, and then when your done picking, go through each tab.

    Quicker than Right Click + Open in New Tab.

  • Post AJUG: Flex is OK on the Server

    I’m convinced Flex is ok on the server. I’m convinced Flash developers are in no way a part of the Flex vision.

    Spoke about Flex & FlexBuilder tonight at the Atlanta Java User’s Group, and when talking about how Flash developers weren’t comfortable with Flex being on the server, but most Java developers I’ve seen on the Flexcoders list are, a lot of audience members were nodding their heads before I even finished the statement. I just met Flex’ target market tonight, first hand.

    Macromedia doesn’t encourage prototype usage in Flex, they don’t encourage using Flash to make Flex components, and they condone the use of Flex generated SWF’s outside the browser (Central non-withstanding).

    Although my time was my limited, and the speed of my speech accelerated, racing across details at 60mph, I think I got a lot of people at least interested in further investigating Flex. As a whole, I think the Roundbox Media Development team hopefully got many interested in OpenAMF, and Java & Flash integration in general.

    Thanks for letting me speak about Flex at your meeting, AJUG members! Thanks for inviting me, Dan!

  • Using a TextField in a class extending mx.core.View

    Since createChild(className:Object, instanceName:String) abstracts the creation of the actual object, TextField’s are hard. They aren’t supported as the first parameter, and doing a createTextField messes up your styles, but createLabel uses it’s own depth.

    There IS a depth variable, however, you must take care to access it in the right order. The best way is:

    createLabel("my_txt", depth++);

    If you do a ++depth, it’ll increment too soon, whilst the rest do a depth++ and overrwrite the depth of one of your controls, destroying it.