In case anyone needs em, here’s my Make PNGs actions for photoshop. I have them mapped to f1-f3.

My doppleganger posted this bitrate calculator for making FLVs. We should refer to this in the future for telling people what to set their compression settings to, instead of my usual “uhhh 400kbs?”

Noticed today that there is no onReleaseOutside in AS3 and events don’t fire when your mouse isn’t on the displayObject. Senocular, as usual, has the answer.

I was trying to save time and increase functionality by making use of the Flash 9 components. I’m really not a component person, never used them in old version of flash. But I’d gone to a presentation at the local user group where I “learned” that the new components were hella easy to use and, most importantly, skin. Well using them, yes, that’s easy and can really speed up a prototype. Tonight I tried to skin the slider component. Every bit I replaced was scaled wrong, as if it were being forced to fit within the size of the original slider elements. So if the grabber thing was 10×10, i couldn’t put a new grabber that was 50×50 in it’s place or it would scale down. Apparently the only scale you can change is the length of the slider. Bummer.

Leopard is launching Oct. 26! Just around the corner!

What was that quiet sound, heard for a moment and then gone? It was the soft, soft launch of bkwld.com.

Does this mean we’ll be getting mac games again? I doubt it, but I thing this is good news nonetheless.

Since we’ve started using SVN I’ve found I sometimes run into some errors when I try to commit a directory that I’ve copied from another repository. Here’s how to get rid of those old, hidden .svn folders so SVN can create new ones. Originally from here.

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

The multi columned text will really help text based flash. It’d be cool if they built in some easy hooks to dynamically resize the page. But the really amazing thing is that 3d stuff. Holy shit! Man, this woulda helped the BKWLD.com site out TREMENDOUSLY. This is really gonna lead to some exciting APIs. (link courtesy of Jeff)

Max showed me swfAddress. More elegant and documented version of what I’m using on BKWLD.com. I’m using some dhtmlHistory thang that I believe is crazy old.