Alchemy - asynchronous jpeg encoding
Just a quick note, motivated by bytearray.org post about fast jpeg encoding. I am preparing a short talk about Alchemy project and, as an example I have developed an asynchronous JPEG encoder. [read more]
Overriding default Flex/AIR mx.managers implementations
The problem is - You want to customize behavior of managers available in Flex/AIR framework. For example, You would like to change the way PopUpManager manager handles popup windows.
Most common solution to this problem is creating custom manager class and using this in code instead of default manager class. For example lets take a look at PopUpManager. If You want to customize addPopup method, You create Your own manager, lets call it PopManager, and later on You use it instead of standard PopUpManager class. [read more]
Alchemy - round two
Since last post about Alchemy, I have successfully ported SFFE library. It was ported with use of real number arithmetics. I'm not planning to port it with use of complex arithmetics. Why ? I will explain this later on. First I will write some words about ported library. [read more]
Flash Player 10 meets 3D
It have been over one month since last post, but there were so many things that needed to be done :) In this post i will just drop a line about 3d in new Flash Player 10. Recently Im writing some experiments, tring to understand how 3d in fp10 works. Doing this I also came across one very interesting site - http://wonderfl.kayac.com. At this page You can write and build Your AS3 code. But lets get back to 3d... [read more]