http://blog.pixelrevision.com Excursions in scripting Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:52:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just tried out a nice zip library. This one was easier to use than fzip although fzip may offer some features I'm unaware of. Super handy with flash 10 to have this available as the local file load/save feature is limited to one file at a time. ... http://blog.pixelrevision.com/uncategorized/zipping-files-in-as3 Just built a new 8-bit style video game for SF Environment. http://blog.pixelrevision.com/uncategorized/recycle-slam For whatever reason there html text in flash does not support too many of the named characters. Any time I'm loading in an external file I'm constantly forgetting about that and things like bullets and emdashes don't show up. I finally broke down and went to: http://www.evolt.org/entities and ... http://blog.pixelrevision.com/uncategorized/html-entities-in-flash Been spending some time really digging into some of the popular frameworks and libraries lately. Seems like a lot of companies are putting out their own MVC flavor frameworks. Seems like there are a couple of winners in this arena: Cairngorm and PureMVC. Looking through the docs ... http://blog.pixelrevision.com/actionscript/flash-frameworks Most people are getting pretty hyped on design patterns and frameworks these days. Most of what I have seen floating around though is the use of MVC. MVC is a really nice pattern, and I wish I had known about it when I was doing a lot of ... http://blog.pixelrevision.com/actionscript/event-mediator