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Here a fun little experiment that takes screen shoots of the video at 1 millisecond cycles then breaks it down in to it’s rgb channels then makes a color histogram of it.
See it here http://gfxcomplex.com/labs/histogram.html
You can download the source here. http://gfxcomplex.com/labs/histogram.zip
Now things are still in the works, but I am very pleased to announce Joey Lott “hopefully” will be presenting for AS3 Apex in October. For any of you who are unfamiliar with Joey’s work there is a not so small list of links for you at the bottom.
Now before this meeting can happen our user group needs a new location for this event per request of Joey. So I am calling you the community to help out and donate a location for this event. If you can help please write me at josh@gfxcomplex.com or just post a reply in this blog post with a way that I can contact you.
And once again for any of you looking to learn a thing or two about Action script here is a list of books and tutorial that Joey created for you. Take my word for it, he is a great presenter and knows Action Script inside and out. If you don’t believe just have a look for your self.
Online Content:
Lynda.com video Tutorials made by Joey Lott
Community MX Tutorials
Books:
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns
Flash 8 ActionScript Bible
Programming Flex 3
Programming Flex 2
Macromedia Flash MX
I was doing some home work on the addChild method and found that it's has a return type of DisplayObject. At first I thought how strange that is since most people would never think to use addChild as a way to get a return value. And that's when I had an idea. Why not use the return of addChild?
A very common thing to do when you add a DisplayObject to the DisplayList is to also save that same DisplayObject in a Array so that you have fast access to that DisplayObject if you need to use removeChild or what have you.
so why not addChild and push in the same line?
I know this is really simple and not a huge deal, but since I have never seen any one else use addChild in such a way I thought it would be cool to see what every one else thinks.
Today's meeting will be a great day to get better acquainted with each other and talk about ways we can make this user group more efficient. I am currently looking for a second in command to help with the user group.
see you there
- Josh Chernoff.
PS. join the forums!!!!
