I have to admit that I have been shying away from Flex for a long time now. I think this has to do with a general hatred for making forms based applications. Now before people tell me Flex isn’t just about forms based applications, I know, I know. Flex is actually pretty cool but in [...]

I have recently changed the final student project in my OOP class to a multi-touch app. One of the briefs I gave to students was to do a non-destructive crop on the multi-touch. Two students, Jae-Ho Yoo and Morgan Roddick made a short video of it in action and I thought I would share. Check [...]

I was alerted to KitchenSync, a AS3 tweening library by Mims Wright, on the Adobe blog feed a week or so ago. I was a bit skeptical at first of another tweening library for Flash but I have been searching for a true AS3 replacement to FUSE (I never started working with GOASAP but should [...]

Revolute Joints Revolute joints can be used to create rotating joints (aka motors) or joints with friction. Both types can have angular limits placed on them. Take a look at the TestRagdoll, TestCrankGearsPulley and TestTheoJansen for more examples of how to use this joint type. Creating Motors The motor features of a revolute joint provide [...]

With the release of the 2.0.1 update of Box2D a couple of things have changed. Here are a couple of changes I have found. If you know of more post a comment. Creating Bodies Previously when creating bodies you had to specify if the body was static or dynamic, this is no longer the case. [...]