Archive for November, 2008

Why No Love for the Monostate Pattern in ActionScript 3?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

A coworker of mine recently introduced me to the monostate pattern. At first I was like "wtf is that?". I had never heard of that pattern before. He is of the opinion that the monostate pattern is far better than the singleton pattern. I had no opinion on the subject ...

Just One of My Favorite Flash Tools: swffit

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I just have to mention this really quickly. When working on tridentgum.com I was introduced to, what I thought might be, a little known JavaScript tool for Flash proejcts. We had to give the site a minimum height and width in the browser but still go 100% if the screen ...

Anyone Using PureMVC Multicore For Non-Flex Flash Sites/Apps?

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Lately I've been experimenting with PureMVC. I'm really curious if it could aid in the development of side projects and even projects at work. In fact, I gave it a go on the project I'm currently on at work right now. All started out well, but then I ran into ...

Free ActionScript! AbstractButton

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

As many of you might know, when you're doing Flash everyday for a job, you find yourself doing a lot of the same things over and over. Such things include building a navigation system, a video player, a form, etc. At some point you say to yourself, there's got to ...

Papervision3D Beta 1 Cube.destroy() bug?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

So I've been working with Papervision3D quite a bit lately for a project at work. I've been creating controllable boxes and using Cube's with a depth of zero as the panels for the box. I used this technique in order to apply different materials to opposite sides of each box ...