Archive of October 2006


Improved Delegate

The Delegate class has existed for some time. We just added a little twist to it. Our version Delegate (com.bigspaceship.utils.Delegate) does everything that Adobe’s does, but also allows for additional custom arguments.

myMovieClip.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this,_onEnterFrame,"hello world");
function _onEnterFrame($str:String):Void {
trace($str); // will output "hello world"
};

You can take a look at our version of this here.
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October 23rd, 2006  by Stephen  /  9 Comments

Image Cache

Big Spaceship has another fun toy for you to play with. Our very own ImageCache class.

The idea behind the ImageCache is to load an image one time and then never again. Once loaded, store its BitmapData in an invisible movieclip, where it can be retrieved forever (memory permitting, of course). The BitmapData for said image is availible and accessible via its file path.

Play with it here.
Download it here.

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October 23rd, 2006  by Jamie  /  19 Comments

AS3 Visualizer Class

We now have a version of the Visualizer class built in AS3. If you have the Flash 9 Public Alpha installed, you can download our demo and try it out. At this point, its not highly optimized and unfortunately you won’t see any performance gain. Perhaps we’ll work on an AS3 version of the Visualizer interface application as well. FYI: Visualizer 1.3 is now in the works.

October 19th, 2006  by Stephen  /  1 Comment

Sleek New Skin!

Big Spaceship Labs now has a sexy new skin! Thanks for being patient with us while we slipped into something more comfortable. In the right column you will notice that we have downloads listed. That column will continue to grow as we have time to prepare more classes and projects for public consumption.

October 19th, 2006  by Stephen  /  1 Comment

Re:Visualize It

Our Visualizer has been updated again. New features include remote background image loading, video dragging, continual color updates (so threshold and glow filtering colors are updated as you’re choosing respective colors), and improved usability. These features are also acompanied by a host of small tweaks and changes. Enjoy!

Visualize it (version 1.2)
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October 2nd, 2006  by Stephen  /  15 Comments