http://blog.hydrotik.com actionscript and creative playground of Donovan Adams Tue, 04 May 2010 15:24:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch has responded to Apple's statement today. I was kind of hoping for a little more of a roadmap and some glimmer into the personal responsibility Adobe is taking in this feud. However, it does make sense that Adobe isn't going to sit there and list ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2010/04/30/adobe-responds/ When I was growing up in L.A., everyone in school had the T&C Surf Design T-Shirts. It got to the point that the person with the newest and coolest shirt was pretty much king for a day. I did a little research and found that the talented dude behind ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2010/04/30/tc-surf-designs-characters/ UPDATE: Reader Hector found a couple of interesting videos showing some benchmark testing. One of which I found quite interesting. And also check out the Adobe section of optimizing for mobile content. Useful information for any type of development. UPDATE 2: Apple may change iPhone SDK to avoid legal ramifications. Original Thoughts: There's ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2010/04/29/iphone-and-ipad-flash-10-and-cs5-solutions/ How awesome would it be if we could put conditional code in our switch statements other then strict equality? I'd love to be able to throw some inline operators in my case code like: var value:int = 2; switch(value){ case < 1: trace("Value is less than 1"); break; case 2: trace("Value definitely equals 2"); break; case >= 3: trace("Value is ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2010/04/22/the-conditional-switch-statement-complete-with-case-operators/ I had some difficulty migrating my scrolling/content display system to CS4. I've been a big fan of Didier Brun's Liquid Components. He was kind enough to release these as open source and they work great. Simple, easy to use, and a lot less kludgy then the Adobe components. Not to ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2010/03/16/as3-liquid-components-scrollpane-with-cs4/ I had someone come to me with some issues using the CSS item in QueueLoader. We went back and forth and I had forgotten that QueueLoader parses the stylesheet from the loader data internally. OK great, but still couldn't get the text to style. I've actually had problems with textfields ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2010/02/04/queueloader-3-1-8-css-example/ I've decided to take a step back in the hopes of taking two steps forward. HydroTween is now deprecated for the most part as I've stripped it down and done some rebuilding in the form of OpenTween. The hope is by having the project on gitgub, the project will attract ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2009/12/01/hydrotween-is-now-opentween-and-on-github/ http://blog.hydrotik.com/2009/11/25/queueloader-is-now-on-github/ Having some problems with the vcs on Google, but the featured link is current. I'm in the process of moving QueueLoader over to github to ultimately make life easier. 3.1.8 addressed an issue with throwing an error when running the queue with no items in it as well as the ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2009/11/23/queueloader-3-1-8/ Just completed a rush project for the film Across The Hall. Being that this is a noir styled film, I came up with a simple class that emulates the effect of sign letters turning on. Could work for Fluorescent lights as well as other stuff. Easiest way to use it ... http://blog.hydrotik.com/2009/11/23/fluorescent-ballast-and-neon-flicker-across-the-hall-movie/