Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Good Stage Resize Example

    Via <a href=”http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000021.html”>MoockBlog</a>.

    Moock linked to a Japenese site that makes a good use of Stage.onResize. It’s a little processor intensive, but they haven’t implemented Greg B’s more efficient one, which is cool and I understand. The point is, it’s a good start, and a creative use of utilizing whatever screen real-estate you can get your hands on. Go to the site, open up a panel via the top navigation, and resize your browser slowly to different shapes. You’ll see the panels minimize, and then move to other spots where there is room. This is one skill I think Flasherz need to master.

    <a href=”http://www.nttdata.co.jp/”>http://www.nttdata.co.jp/</a>

  • if ( anObject ) then do stuff

    Manager taught me something today about Flash while I was bitching how Flash didn’t support overloading of functions.

  • How to pass parameters components

    You cannot do:
    <pre><code>my_mc = new MovieClip();</code></pre>
    Nor can you do:
    <pre><code>my_mc = new FUIComponentClass(true, “my_txt”);</code></pre>

    So how do you initialize your components just like a class? Furthermore, how do you write them to accept such a usage? Read on…

  • Icewind Dale 2: The Collapse of the Severed Hand

    *** warning: spoiler ***
    <img src=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/WorgRidr.gif” />

    Finally… I’ve been struggling with this dang, final battle for the past 3 weeks! The game is supposed to provide solace to me when I wish to escape from my book writing, retreating to the frozen north to feel alive again. Instead, I’m fraut with an unending tide of summoned creatures; demons, giants, and other horrors… that is, until I found the conjurer responsible. One by one, I eliminated the evil scum of that tower, and that made it so much easier to tackle Isair and Madae in their tainted pool chamber. My paladin, armed with the Holy Avenger I wrested from the six Lost Followers, enriched by the vitality that battle had given, and my party as a whole, working together like a well oiled machine, quickly fell the Legion of the Chimera on my 19th try (lost count at 2, so guessing). <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/iwd2007.jpg”>Here’s one of my failed first attempts</a>.

    <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/iwd2007.jpg”><img src=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/iwd2007_thumb.jpg” border=”0″ /></a>

    God, I hope <a href=”http://icewind2.blackisle.com/”>they</a> make a 3rd. Onto <a href=”http://www.interplay.com/bgate2/”>Baldurs Gate 2</a> to fell that frikin’ black dragon, kickin’ it <a href=”http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/october00/minsc/”>Minsc style</a>…