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  • Wish List for Flash Player 11

    The following is my wish list for Flash Player 11.  My agenda is making my job easier, and making the job of those who need to work with me, such as designers & middle-tier developers, easier.  Additionally, I’d like to do things I couldn’t do in the past, or had to “fake” in the past.

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  • Rowan Tivonah Warden

    Rowan Tivonah Warden (Daughter & child #2), 7 lbs 13 ozs (3.5 kg) was born at 12:04 pm on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009. Mom and baby are fine. We showed her sister, Sydney, some videos and she’s excited to meet her new sibling.

  • Fix for Ely’s SuperImage

    SuperImage does not abort previous loads in it’s internal Loader. This means those Loader’s no longer have IOErrorEvent handlers. If you do have a case where the image fails to load after you’ve attempted to load a second image, this’ll cause an uncaught exception. This can happen when SuperImage is used within an itemRenderer where multiple image requests can occur during scrolling.

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  • Make fl.containers.UILoader Use Image Caching

    This is not code I’m proud of, nor have I thoroughly tested it.  However, I know SOMEONE out there will need this, so here it is.  Keep in mind, she leaks memory like a seive, but for a slideshow that shows to the user for 30 seconds, who cares.  If you’re bored, you’re welcome to fix/mod/improve/re-write.

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