Mouse bad, keyboard good
Probably only interesting if you’re based in Norway (yet, who knows?), but I thought I’d give you all a heads up that FUGN – Flash User Group Norway is starting up again after a lengthy summer vacation.
The first meeting is this coming monday, and the details can be found at the FUGN website (^^). If you’re Oslo-based; Get your ass over there.
I couldn’t possibly code in anything but TextMate. Hell, I even blog from TextMate. And since I’m lazy by nature I wanted a better way to import classes from my class library. The TextMate ActionScript 3 Bundle Simon Gregory offers a nice auto complete functionality that lets you define a list of classes to choose from on triggering.
While this is indeed very nice, the solution is really only suited for your most frequently used classes as putting your entire class library in the list would render it unusable. So something else was needed.
This code was written by a far less awesome version of me and using it is strongly discouraged. You should go here and use that code instead. Do it. You’ll thank me.
I’m an avid user of Twitter. I’m also a Flash developer so it figures I had created a Twitter badge in Flash to display on my old blog. I even had a tutorial on how to do it. The thing is; Twitter all of a sudden decided to close off their feeds to Flash. By changing their crossdomain.xml 1 the pretty much messed up any Flash apps out there talking to Twitter. A tad frustrating, but oh well.
This just means we’ll have to be a bit more creative when we create Twitter stuff. To get the Actionscript and the clever solution for the cross domain issue, read on.
While showering last night (this is usually when ideas and / or solutions present themselves) I came up with this idea.
Basically it’s a simple class that allows you to listen for specific sequences of keystrokes. So if the user was to press the sequence in the title, in the correct order naturally, you might react to it in any way you might deem funny. Code beneath the cut.
(BTW: I’m not all that familiar with the Text package in AS3 yet, so if there is some kind of method that does this for you please let me know.)