Archive for January, 2004

Robotron 2004

Sunday, January 11th, 2004

If you like high-intensity shoot-em-ups then check out Mutant
Storm. It has the frantic gameplay of the old-school arcade game Robotron,
but it’s been updated to include a nice keyboard and mouse control system
and beautiful, trippy 3D graphics. Mutant Storm is created by a small [...]

And The Winner Is… Chosen By You!

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

The AOL
MovieGoer Awards Voting Interface is live. I developed the Flash front
end, which talks to a AOL backend for voting and tracking. Votes are stored
locally via a Shared Object. Over 7 million
votes were tallied last year, hopefully this year [...]

Dynamic Text ‘Wrapping Spaces’ Bug Fix

Monday, January 5th, 2004

Grant Skinner mentions the dreaded wrapping spaces bug. This is where dynamic textfields will wrap spaces on the end of a line to the
front of the next line, creating an uneven left margin. One solution
is to slightly increment the textfield’s width after setting the text. As a textfield prototype:

TextField.prototype.unwrapSpaces = function() {
this._width = this._width [...]


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