Monthly Archives: August 2007
Fun with Winsock (Windows == work of the Devil)
I spend a few hours last night trying to fix my PC and thought I’d mention how it got fixed. Turns out either getting spyware or removing spyware or even removing spyware shield programs can screw up your winsock chain.
Flash is Everywhere
I’ve been noticing that Flash is being integrated in many ways that surprise me every day. Take for example a project I just completed for Yahoo IMV and Ford (Ford Escape CowTipping).
Set Bitmap Properties MXP
I’ve put together a smaller command set that designers will find useful. This command allows you to change the bitmap properties of all the currently selected library symbols. I’ve posted this to Adobe Exchange and will update with the newest … Continue reading
TIDY up XML source
SCITE includes TIDY for cleaning up HTML/XML documents (rewrapping lines, cleaning up spacing, etc). If you’ve never used Scintilla based products before (and you have if you’ve used SEPY, FlashDevelop, Scite|Flash) it’s a great text editing library that is wrapped … Continue reading
MXI file format specifications for packaging components
I had some trouble finding good information regarding the mxi file format (the package description file format for mxp file generation).
TextScript Component
Satori Canton’s TextScript source code is good, but when we used it in the production of a few movies for some banner ad’s on Lincoln’s site we had some problems with how the animated text was being built, so I rewrote it … Continue reading
ColorFader Class
Here’s a class I used for building Mercury’s transition effect between vehicles. Starting from senocular’s ColorFader class, I’ve rewritten it to use the ColorTransform classes instead of Color / setRGB. It’s pretty good and relatively fast.