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  • The Nex Obi Wan

    I think it’s a phat idea to have Mark Hamil play Obi Wan in Episode 3. Don’t know the status of the movie, but it’d just be sweet…

  • Predator, Metal Gear Ninja’s: Cloaking Cloak

    Via <a href=”http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000240.html”>enterFrame</a>.

    …even if you <a href=”http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html”>wore one</a> when it finally matures, I’d still kick yer arse wif me katana!

  • How to display an big array in the output window so you can read it

    Some arrays can have large amounts of data at each index, making it diffucult to read sometimes for debugging purposes, ecspecially in the output window. A nice way for the output window is:
    <pre><code>
    trace(my_array.join(newline));</code></pre>

    Or for HTML content in a text field (say a custom debugger you made in Flash):
    <pre><code>
    trace(my_array.join(“&lt;br /&gt;”));</code></pre>

    These will display each piece of data on a newline so you don’t have to scroll horizontally and visually mark the next index by spotting the comma’s mixed in (which are the default).

  • You know your a Flash Developer when…

    … you can’t remember the last time you tweened anything.

    Your told you can’t use components on a project, and you suddenly have no idea how to do the project.

    Designers call you a programmer and programmers call you scripter.

    You spend more time working on a Flash project in another program other than Flash (using an external code editor).

    Clients have no idea that Flash can do what you can make it do.

    Your implementing interfaces in Flash, not creating them.

    You’ve answered the loadMovie-can’t-move-a-jpeg question more times than is humanly possible.

    You can’t make a web app all in Flash because then your department doesn’t get dual developement, so your forced to use JavaScript calls to help keep state, therefore bringing up the question why did you use Flash in the first place when the initial reason was to prevent the multitude of technologies and keeping application state?