The ImageManager class displays a series of images with the transition from one image to the next actuated by a mouse click. Otherwise hidden next and previous arrows are displayed when the mouse is hovered over the image – clicking on the right half of the image navigates to the next image and clicking on the [...]
Entries from February 25th, 2010
Using a fly transition to load images: the ImageManager class
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes
Saving XML to disk using ByteArray and FileReference
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Tutorials
This post examines a method for saving a modified XML file to disk. To accomplish this task, the XML is first converted to binary data using byteArray – and then saving the byteArray to disk using fileReference.
Modifying XML files
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Tutorials
In earlier posts, I discussed various methods to read XML data (here, here). In this post we’ll look at various means of modifying existing XML files.
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Programming Conway’s Game of Life
February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps
I first read about the study of self-replicating systems or Cellular Automata almost twenty years ago. The great mathematician John von Neumann studied the problem during the 1940’s while working at Los Alamos. In the 1970’s, another mathematician, John Conway devised the Game of Life, which was intended as a study of Cellular Automata, was then [...]
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