Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Audiotool wins at FlashForward

Published on Aug 25, 2008 in Flash and news. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

Last friday was an awesome day. It was my birthday, Microsoft released Photosynth which is a product I have been watching since two years and we won the FlashForward Award in the category Sound with our Audiotool.

The Audiotool development became a very interesting topic. We implemented so many things to keep stuff optimized not only on the code layer but also on the algorithm layer. I am really looking forward to talk about some techniques in my session “Audiotool’s Private Parts” at Flash on the beach and Flash on tap.

FDT supports Vector syntax now

Published on Aug 11, 2008 in Flash, as3 and news. 0 Comments Tags: , .

This FDT update makes me so happy that I have to post about it. The Powerflasher FDT developers implemented the new Vector.<T> syntax. Hooray — we can make full use of the Vector class!

FDT is implementing it also in a nice way. So for instance if you have a Vector.<int> named vec and you write var sprite: Sprite = vec[0] this will result in an error because FDT knows that your Vector was typed int.

There are still some glitches here and there but I hope this will be fixed soon as well.

By the way I am using the beta site to update my FDT — so if you want to have Vector support too you should use the beta update site.

AS3C — take a look inside

Published on Aug 11, 2008 in Flash, as3, c++ and others, experiments, personal and projects. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

I have started working on AS3C at the end of last year. After a quick prototype the development stagnated and I added just several fixes and tests to the code. Basically I started AS3C as a complete C# newcommer and because of that the code is very ugly.

Due to the fact that I do not have much free time to continue developing AS3C I think it is the right time to release the source-code on the one hand and to let people experiment with it on the other hand.

You can either download the sources and build AS3C manually (you will need zlib.net) or download a binary from trunk/bin/.

When using AS3C you will need the ActionScript from the SVN. Remember that you write real ActionScript code which gets translated by AS3C. There is also one undocumented and very experimental feature existing. If you run as3c.exe -optimize main.swf you could get some speed improvements if you have heavy loops using the Math class. But it could also destroy the SWF so do not forget to make a backup :o)

ActionScript 3 Quine

Published on Aug 4, 2008 in Flash and as3. 1 Comment Tags: , .

A quine is a programm emitting its own source-code. I guess this is the most simple variant one could produce.

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