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Re: Customise your Flex preloader the easy way

Lee Probert — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:45:08 -0000

I'm putting together a collection of photos where I've been. Check it out:

http://gowalla.com/r/27qf9?904

- Lee

Re: Hex colour words

Low Acid Coffee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:19:32 -0000

Very tricky ideas there.

Re: Streaming Video in Actionscript 3

NiGGa — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:44:33 -0000

Hello.. sorry for mi poor english =P

this code don't work... and my old code was similar =S

Help me please !!

Re: Installing World of Warcraft on a MacBook Pro

mike — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:58:50 -0000

Thanks a ton. I can finally play WoW at work now :-)

Re: #BADA55

Freelance web designer — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:20:22 -0000

I love this color as well. lol

Re: Set scroll policy to OFF globally … the dirty way.

Lee Probert — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:22:01 -0000

hmmm, weird. Let me look into it.

Re: Developing Flex with ASDoc in mind

Jovi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:29:24 -0000

Aah, great!!
Thanks a lot!

Re: Developing Flex with ASDoc in mind

Lee Probert — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:25:28 -0000

Hey Jovi. You need to do it like this ...

<mx:button icon="{Assets.getInstance().iconFolder}"/>

... note the use of {} to differentiate the attribute as a piece of code and not a String reference.

Re: Developing Flex with ASDoc in mind

Jovi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:22:37 -0000

Hm. The "most comfortable" solution to me seembs to be:

<mx:Button id="myButton" creationComplete="myButton.setStyle('icon', Assets.getInstance().iconFolder)" />

Not optimal, but still doable inside of mxml.

Re: Developing Flex with ASDoc in mind

Jovi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:18:11 -0000

Hi!
Thanks for the info, I started using this way.
The problem that I currently experience is: I dont know yet how to use the assets inside mxml tags.
When I simply try
<mx:Button icon="Assets.getInstance().iconFolder" />
I get a warning "Cannot parse a value of type Class from text 'Assets.getInstance().iconFolder'".

When I find a solution, I will post it here. Maybe you have an idea or solution already too.. If so, please post it when you have time.

Thanks for the article. Greetings
Jovi

Re: Customise your Flex preloader the easy way

Lee Probert — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:11:32 -0000

yea, his is a lot slicker ... I left a comment yesterday.

:-)

Re: Customise your Flex preloader the easy way

Adrian Parr — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:25 -0000

Hey Lee,

I see Lee Brimelow has just posted a video tutorial on creating a Custom Flex Preloader.

http://www.gotoandlearn.com...

I am so sick to death of that default progress bar. I wish people would make more effort.

Re: Customise your Flex preloader the easy way

Lee Probert — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:14:05 -0000

Hey, thanks for the compliment. Unfortunately, my now old and creaky website doesn't have a custom preloader at all ... I just changed the styles of the default component. I'm going to re-design it very soon with the intention of using a WordPress engine hack to manage the site content and rest assured it will have a wonderful preloader! It's all in the details.

Regarding the lack of examples on my blog: I have now found a decent plugin for embedding the SWF files and have a system for generating the code without too much disruption to my daily work so I will be finding time to update these posts soon. I wish I could find a really good MXML stylesheet though.

Re: Customise your Flex preloader the easy way

Viv — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:16:41 -0000

I have seen the running example at http://lyraspace.com/. Liked it. Not only that I also liked your rotating cubes. Excellent!!! Keep it up!!!!

Re: Customise your Flex preloader the easy way

Viv — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:10:33 -0000

Just one thing. I guess if you put a link where they users will be able to see a running example of this example will help a lot. Any way thanks for making it available. Regards...

Re: Hex colour words

MattCopp — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:59:50 -0000

If you're thinking of CSS colour values you can do 3 character hex codes too. So 5AD would work, as well as the ones you have above.

I like 50D0FF though :P

Re: Hex colour words

Ed Smiley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:27:13 -0000

How about BEEFED?

The words like CAFEBABE AND DEADBEEF are 8 characters long, hence they fit in one 32 bit integer (2 symbols per byte X 4bytes per int). So they have a long history being used as type signatures for binary file formats. Perhaps the most famous instance is "CAFEBABE" for the Java binary class file format (open any class file in a hex editor!), but this tradition goes way back.

Now the interesting thing about RGBs is they are three bytes long, which is an oddball length. (Take a 32 bit integer, zero out one byte, use for _R_ed, _B_lue, _G_reen, in that order--so the valuues are 0..FF). So some of the traditional values won't work.

That's why I thought your search should be "BEEFED" up to look for words that are ALL letters that fit in exactly 6 letters. :)

You might want to play with this palette picker.

Links:
http://websitetips.com/colo...

Re: Hex colour words

Steve Davis — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:02:49 -0000

Here you go:

ABACA5, ABA5ED, ABA5E5, ABBE55, ABE1E5, AB0DED, AB0DE5, AB011A, ACCEDE, ACCE55, ADD1ED, ADD1E5, AD0BE5, AD0B05, A1BED0, A1CADE, A1D015, A1D05E, A11E1E, A110D5, A55E55, BAA5E5, BABB1E, BABE15, BAB001, BAB005, BACCAE, BAFFED, BAFF1E, BA1B0A, BA1DED, BA11AD, BA11ED, BA15A5, BA0BAB, BA55E5, BA5505, BEADED, BEAD1E, BEDDED, BEDE11, BEDE15, BEEBEE, BEEFED, BEFA11, BEFE11, BEF1EA, BEF001, BE11ED, BE11E5, B1ADED, B1ADE5, B1AFF5, B1EED5, B100D5, B0BBED, B0BB1E, B0CCE5, B0FF05, B011ED, B00BED, B00B00, B00C00, B00D1E, B055ED, B055E5, CABA1A, CABA15, CABBED, CAB1ED, CAB1E5, CAB0B5, CACA05, CAECA1, CA1CE5, CA1E5A, CA11A5, CA11ED, CA11EE, CA5ABA, CEA5ED, CEA5E5, CE1EB5, CE11AE, CE11ED, CE1105, CE55ED, CE55E5, C10ACA, C105ED, C105E5, C0A1A5, C0A1ED, C0BB1E, C0B1E5, C0CCA1, C0C0A5, C0DDED, C0DD1E, C0DEC5, C0FFEE, C0FF1E, C01EAD, C00C00, C00EED, C00EE5, C001ED, C05EC5, DABBED, DABB1E, DADD1E, DAD0ED, DAD0E5, DAEDA1, DAFFED, DA11E5, DEBA5E, DECADE, DECAF5, DECA15, DEC0DE, DEEDED, DEFACE, DEF1EA, DE1EAD, D0AB1E, D0B1A5, D0D0E5, D0FFED, D011ED, D00DAD, D00D1E, D00D00, D001EE, D055A1, D055ED, D055E1, D055E5, EA5E15, EDD0E5, EFFACE, E10DEA, FAB1ED, FAB1E5, FACADE, FAECA1, FAECE5, FA1CE5, FA11A1, FA5CE5, FEA5ED, FEA5E5, FEEB1E, FE11A5, FE11ED, FE110E, FE0FF5, FE55ED, FE55E5, F1EECE, F100D5, F0A1ED, F0BBED, F01DED, F011E5, F001ED, F055AE, F055E5, 1ABE15, 1AD1ED, 1AD1E5, 1A11ED, 1A55E5, 1A5505, 1EADED, 1EAFED, 1EA5ED, 1EA5E5, 1E55EE, 10ADED, 10AFED, 10BBED, 10CA1E, 10CA15, 10C0ED, 10C0E5, 1011ED, 100FA5, 1005ED, 1005E5, 105E15, 1055E5, 0B01E5, 0B5E55, 0FFA15, 00D1E5, 5ABA15, 5ABBED, 5AB1E5, 5ADD1E, 5A1AD5, 5A1A15, 5A1015, 5A15A5, 5A55ED, 5A55E5, 5CA1D5, 5CA1ED, 5CA1E5, 5CA115, 5C1AFF, 5C0FF5, 5C01D5, 5EABED, 5EA1ED, 5ECC05, 5ECEDE, 5EEDED, 5EE1ED, 5E1FED, 5E11E5, 50BBED, 50C1E5, 50DDED, 501ACE, 5010ED

FYI:
I took the 15553 six letter words from the scrabble word finder [http://www.a2zwordfinder.co...] and spent a couple of minutes writing a perl script to filter them to only ones with the letters abcdeflos.

If you wanted to be really complete you could make a script to generate the word pairs the letter combinations 1,5 2,4 and 3,3.

To get you started here is my little perl script.

#!/usr/bin/perl

@words = ("aahing", "aaliis", "aarrgh", ... [other 15 thousand or so words] ..., "zygote", "zymase");
foreach $word (@words) {
if ( $word =~ /[abcdeflos]{6}/ ) {
$word =~ s/o/0/g;
$word =~ s/l/1/g;
$word =~ s/s/5/g;
print uc $word . ", ";
}
}

Re: Hex colour words

Dee — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:51:04 -0000

You are such a GEEK! But then so am I....

CABB1E
DEEDED
FAECE5
5ODOFF
FECOFF
FAÇADE
FACIA5
FACIE5
DEFACE
DEF1ED
ABELE5
5ADD1E
CADD1E

Any there take yer fancy? I like FAECE5. Yes, I really do-do. Ha HA HA...oof.
Dx

Re: Hex colour words

Lee Probert — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:06:41 -0000

OMG! How could I have missed #DADDEE! Sorry kids.

Re: Hex colour words

Lee Probert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:50:45 -0000

Oh man, there's so many good ones if you include the alpha : BEEFBABE, FACEFEED, DEADBEEF, DEADBABE, BA51CBABE ... the list can go on. I think we should keep it simple though as we want to see the colour at 100%. There's got to be a killer 6 letter word out there.

Re: Hex colour words

DaveMee — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:36:16 -0000

If you're going to take alpha into consideration...

One of the old Amiga debuggers used #DEADBEEF to identify trampled memory address space.

Re: HSlider Seek Bar

tyler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:41:26 -0000

thank you very much for this! --twas' exactly what I was looking for.

Re: Writing JSFL in AS3

Lee Probert — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:34:24 -0000

Yes indeed ... and handy they are. I needed to dynamically generate the JSFL within classes and add logic. It was easier within the AS.

Re: Writing JSFL in AS3

Steven Sacks — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:33:16 -0000

You know you can write a .jsfl file and call functions inside of it using runScript, right?