Category Archives: Lab

The quest for the elusive “N-gleton”

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Mims H Wright

Sure, we’ve all heard of Singleton, the design pattern that limits the number of instances of a class to one. It’s a feel good pattern because it’s easy to use and make us feel smarter in front of our co-workers, … Continue reading →

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AS3 number to hex converter

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Mims H Wright

I’ve been working on some code for converting colors lately and getting quite into bitwise operations. In one of the demos I was making, I needed a quick and easy way to see the results of a color calculation. Of … Continue reading →

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Flash Player 10 – 3D Example

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Caleb Johnston

I’ve tinkered a bit with Flash Player 10. One thing that seems almost funny about the 3D effects of Flash thus far is that very few examples show off actually 3D objects. Most examples I’ve examined show 2D planes transformed … Continue reading →

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20 reasons to use KitchenSync for animation and sequencing on your next project

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Mims H Wright

Versatility – Great for tweening animation, yes, but also great for calling functions, disptaching events, playing sounds, controlling MovieClips, and more. Virtually any code can be run at a specific time. In KitchenSync, any event or behaviour that can be … Continue reading →

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Tweening timeline animations with KitchenSync

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Mims H Wright

One of the new features in KitchenSync 1.5 is the ability to tween animations on a MovieClip’s timeline… and I’m not just talking about gotoAndPlay(), I’m talking about controlling the starting and stopping points, speed, and easing functions of an … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex, Lab, Site-seeing, Tutorial, Videogames, physics & motion | Tagged | 2 Comments