Category: Programming
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Create lightweight 3D models with Away3D
Alot of the flash 3D project on the internet are massive. They first have to download 40mb before they start. There are 2 ways to reduce this. Use PreFab 2.0 export (not yet released) to export every model to awd files. Make simple models with Actionscript I made a example project to show how to…
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Code snippet: pass preloader flashvars to main swf
Needed some way generic way to get my flashvars from the preloader to the loaded swf I just extend the url with the flashvars like this
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Music visualisation with SoundMixer.computeSpectrum();
Just some fun with Away3D and the SoundMixer class. View example
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Distort with drawTriangles()
There are a growing number of posts about the technique to distort an image with the drawTriangles() function. But most of those examples create a lot of extra vertices that aren’t needed for displaying the image and more calculation means more CPU consumption. I explain here how to work with verticals and show some basic…
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Experimental flickr photo viewer
Not so long ago I saw a nice menu from (I’m not really sure) a game console on TV. It had a tilted view on 3D planes with information from a games and after selecting a plane the plane rotate toward the camera so you could see more detail from the selected game. I made…
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Calculate DataGrid height
I have a dataset with more than 200 items. If I use that as dataprovider of a datagrid and set the rowcount to 10 the datagrid is not alway resizing to the right size. Sometimes I see 10.5 rows. This is a nice solution for that problem: dataGrid.height = measureHeightOfItems(-1, dataGrid.rowCount) + dataGrid.headerHeight;
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AdvancedDataGrid GroupingCollection and sort
Here an example of the advancedDataGrid. I’m using a groupingcollection to get all the data from one searchengine in one group [SWF]http://arnomanders.nl/upload/advanceddatagrid/AdvancedDataGridExample.swf, 400, 400[/SWF] One problem that I encounter in the advancedDataGrid is sorting a column on application start. I try to sort the “number of visits” field and it is working for the known…
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LineChart datatip with degrafa skin
Here is an example how you skin a DataTip from a LineChart with the help of Degrafa. Source
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TimeDateAxis
I’m going to try to shift the focus of my blog a little bit more to examples and away from the “I have this problem bla bla”. Well I just try to blog more because it a bit quiet here. I’m going to post some things that is useful for myself to archive and maybe…
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What is the deal with application.parameters?
I send a userId to my application to display a linechart with the application.parameter object. I get the userId parameter inside my application and can trace or alert it and I see the userId on my screen. Ok everything is working fine for now. Then I want to use the userId to call php function.…