http://bowievanling.com/blog Actionscript and Multimedia Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:57:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just installed Firefox 3 beta.  The old Flashtracer extension wasn't doing it's thing, and as of the writing of this post the Mozilla addon site doesn't have a compatible version.  Luckily, Allessandro is on top of his game and there is an XPI available here: http://www.sephiroth.it/firefox/flashtracer/ Didn't even have to re-define the ... http://bowievanling.com/blog/firefox-3-and-the-flashtracer-extension/ Re-inventing the wheel? Definitely. Discovering that wheel for myself? Absolutely. The code written here is procedural and we're dealing only with two dimensions, I'm sure there are plenty of classes and aggregations of classes that handle the same thing. I started looking at some fundamental vector geometry ... http://bowievanling.com/blog/exercise-in-vector-geometry/ I've been trying to figure out how different frequencies of the sound spectrum can affect each other, and how graphical waveforms represent all of those frequencies. A friend and excellent sound engineer was giving me a couple of pointers on sound design, namely with multi band compression. A couple ... http://bowievanling.com/blog/auditory-waveforms-frequency-ranges-and-composition/ I'm working on my first as3 class. There has been a discussion of it going on over at actionscript.org I'm questioning whether or not this should extend the MovieClip class. In any regard it works well for my needs. In working on this class, I've stumbled ... http://bowievanling.com/blog/draggeras-with-eventmouse_leave/ This was a nice little exercise getting some name value pair data into an embedding flash object. swfobject 2.0 has a great new way to pass objects with your variables to your swf. This is the javascript: <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var flashvars = {dataFeedXML: "./data/regions_feed.xml"}; swfobject.embedSWF("swf/filename.swf", "flashDiv", "687", "486", "9.0.0", "swf/expressInstall.swf", flashvars); </script> I ... http://bowievanling.com/blog/using-flashvars-with-swfobject-20-and-as3/