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FullScreen OnMouseMove Bug

Pixelwit — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:00:46 +0000

Here’s an interesting fact: Going to FullScreen mode causes Flash to temporarily stop executing all onMouseMove events.

I’m sure if someone from Adobe was pressed hard enough they might be able to provide some convoluted ~logical~ reasons why going into full-screen mode stops all onMouseMove events but I’m not buying it. I wasted a few frustrating hours figuring this out and when I searched the web to confirm my suspicions I found no mention of this “feature” so I’m calling it what it is, a BUG.

Here, take a look at this ugly SWF (move your mouse around to draw a line whenever the OnMouseMove event is fired and then press the blue square to toggle fullScreen mode)...

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Post tags: ActionScript, Adobe, Bug, Code, Tutorial

Flash Scripted Conic Angle Gradient

Pixelwit — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:00:25 +0000

One of the quirkier aspects of Flash is its lack of a ‘conic’ gradient fill. The conic gradient has been a mainstay of drawing apps like CorelDraw and Photoshop (where it’s called an “Angle Gradient”) for ages but Flash still hasn’t implemented this basic feature. Go ahead and check… it’s not there.

NOTE: This tutorial uses some of the code and concepts from my previous Color Gradient and Circle Drawing tutorials so I highly recommend checking them out for a more in-depth explanation of the following code...

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Post tags: ActionScript, Code, Color, Draw, SWFs, Tutorial

Rotated Oval Tutorial

Pixelwit — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:33:36 +0000

Making the transition from drawing circles to drawing ovals is pretty simple but when you need to go from drawing ovals to drawing rotated ovals, you might run into a few problems. This article documents some of the pitfalls I encountered and presents them as a learning experience. If you just want some solid code to draw rotated ovals or twisted ellipses, skip ahead to the end of the article and copy the last block of code. If you think you might gain from my experience then by all means… read on....

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Hexadecimal Color Fading Array

Pixelwit — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:45:55 +0000

A while ago I wrote a Hexadecimal Color Fading Tutorial explaining how to select a single color at any point on a gradient between two specified colors. In that tutorial there was a function which efficiently broke each of the 2 specified colors into their Red, Green and Blue components and then calculated a single new color at a specified point between them.

Here’s what the code looks like:...

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How to Draw a Logarithmic Spiral

Pixelwit — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:31:56 +0000

What is a Logarithmic spiral? A logarithmic spiral steps around center at an additive rate while stepping away from center at a multiplicative rate. Increasing the distance from center at a multiplicative rate causes the arm of a logarithmic spiral to increase in size as it gets further from center. To illustrate, take a look at this photo of a spiral staircase:

Photo by: darijus

As you can see in the above photo, the number of steps...

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