Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • _parent Who? & Can’t Drag A Button Natively

    First gothca is if you attach a movie clip/button and assign a handler to it such as “onPress”, it doesn’t know what _parent is. You have to use this._parent instead, as _parent will equal undefined.

    Secondly, in optimizing my project using Buttons (as opposed to movie clips that just have button events assinged to them), I forgot that the Button class doesn’t natively support startDrag (2nd time I got bit), so instead of doing this.startDrag(false), you must do startDrag(this, false) instead. Same goes for stopDrag.

  • Insecurity

    Had a bunch of whacked dreams last night. First one; I’m in Baghdad, Iraq. Me and some other dude are walking to some capital building, and I’m feeling scared as hell someone is going to bomb us. I wasn’t in Israel, but I still get the same feeling probably because a cool co-worker is heading to Israel soon with his family, and I worry about him. I see this pretty girl and her friends, and we ask for directions. She, in slightly accented English, asks where I am from. I say America weakly. She suddenly moves about a centimeter back, and mouths “oh” like she is disappointed and saddened. Instead of wanting someone to like me, I feel like I want her to like my country. I get really frustrated. She starts to leave and I think she gives me something, like a postcard or somesuch. I say wait, and struggle to find something worthwhile in my backpack. I procure my hackysack, and explain it’s very American, and we “chill together” with it back home. I feel like I’m trying to prove we’re not all bad, but instead just end up sounding apologetic, and I hated that feeling.

  • Golden Rule bit ye in yer arse?

    Have you been nice to a programmer you know? If not, you may be in trouble. I’ve made an extreme effort to be nice, courteous, and respectful to all of the programmers I’ve met in online mailing lists and forums in helping them with Flash. Anytime I had a hardcore programming question, they were more than willing to help me out.

    Now that Flash Pro has landed, people like me need a lot of questions answered to get over the initial programming hurdles before I can make serious progress on my own. Thankfully, I’ve picked up a few good online friends to help out, and other aquaintances.

    I just hope others are in my boat. It’s nice having all of these smart people around now to ask questions, who, for the past year and a half, I was ansering theirs. When the tables are turned, it’s still cool, ya know?

  • EOLAS: Who gives a…

    Alright, enough is enough, stop talking about this retarded subject! For crying out loud, this is stuipid, and NOTHING WILL HAPPEN!!!

    Someone once told me Microsoft had to remove IE from windows because of all those suits. It never happened.

    Someone once told me search engines were going to go to a “you pay, you come up in a search.” Big companies were supposedly paying for this. So, if you searched for “ducks” on google, only those who paid would get a higher search engine placement. It never happened.

    Someone once told me that a patent infringement case against Microsoft would remove plugins from working in web browsers the same, thus affecting the web in negative ways. From removing existing browsers from the market cause they cannot afford the patent infringement cost to negatively affecting the industry because web pages would be reduced to older technologies to get around the infringement. It will never happen.

    Shut up and move people… there are a lot cooler things to discuss, like Flash 7, for example. It, for example, is a reality that will instatantiate change into things.

    I know I can’t prevent it from coming up again in a few years when all the appeals get publicized, but I hope by then you’ll at least take them with a grain of salt seeing that NOTHING HAPPENED!