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My sister always says a Bearded Man’s a Bad Man. THIS is so much fun (via flazoom)
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Last year I went on Holiday to New York, and I had a ball. I took about 400 pictures, which came out well and some digital video. The quality isn’t great, it came from a digital stills camera rather than a digital video camera. The volume’s also kind of loud.
The video [...]

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I work in an office. until we moved buildings there was quite a lot of space and, occasionally, to get around the office, I’d push myself around on my chair. A colleague of mine is working on a tank game and he wants to make it multiplayer. I was looking at [...]

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I’ve been working on a grid game in Flash for Ages. That’s not quite right. It’s been on the go for ages, but I haven’t really touched it for ages. It’s been so long that I think i am going to have to rewrite the thing totally to get it back [...]

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//create a 10 by 10 movieclip in the library and export for AS as “mcBox”
var gridRows = 35;
var gridCols = 40;
var squareSize = 10;
var myWidth = gridCols*squareSize;
var limit = gridRows*gridCols*squareSize;
for(var i=0;i
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I was surfing the Manbottle site as I do occasionally, and came across this. It’s some sample 999 calls (the same as 911 in the US) which are totally idiotic. one of the interesting things that there is the option to view the files using the flashplayer, including subtitles. This will [...]

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I was working with some Flash files that someone had sent me. They included some runtime shared library objects. The problem was that when the files were played in IE, the memory usage just kept increasing (IE6, 6,0,79,0 player, win2k) The files were as simplified as possible, but it turned out [...]

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When I’m making an application, I always come up against having to track the current depth, so I can attach objects to the new depth. I’m just starting out on the whole oop path, but this seems to make it a no-no to have a variable to keep track of this. I [...]

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I spent ages this afternoon trying to work out why an onEnterFrame script wouldn’t work. Neither would a setInterval script(my preferred method). Turns out it was the machine - I mailed the script to another machine and - hey presto - it worked beautifully. after a reboot, the script worked fine [...]

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I’m waiting for Moock’s book to arrive from Amazon, and I’m kind of excited. Aside from having a pleasingly alliterative name, it’s also THE BEST reference guide for Flash MX actionscript. I’ve decided to use the opportunity to try out an amazon associates link, so click to buy the book from Amazon:uk?us. [...]

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