labs.grupow.com

as3isolib Isometric Library

Raúl — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:53:23 +0000

i’m going to start a personal project using an isometric view, and i just find about as3isolib
it´s a very useful library that could help you in building your own isometric game.

i uploaded already a few examples on GitHub, and i will continue uploading more examples on the road.
http://github.com/rauluranga/as3isolib-demos-bundle

you can find more info here and here.

cheers!

Playing with GitHub!

Raúl — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:30:19 +0000

i started learning how GitHub works and created a new project http://github.com/GrupoW;
Learning git it’s a little bit more complicated than SVN, and if you are in MAC, installing it is another history! (you can go to this page for little help)
I´m going to start porting all the GrupoW googles repository to GitHub, yes……… i could export/import from SVN to GitHub but i also want to refactor some classes and remember, i´m doing this for learning purposes and because everybody is talking about git!!!.

so let’s start sharing code!

Weakreference + Robotlegs

Raúl — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:31:31 +0000

yesterday i was wondering why i just couldn’t get the eventMap.mapListener to work as expected.

in my mediator class i have the next code:

1
2
3

override public function onRegister():void  {
	eventMap.mapListener(view, CustomEvent.CLICK, onClick);
}

the onClick handler never happens… (using Flash CS4)
but if i change that line to this:

1	view.addEventListener(CustomEvent.CLICK, onClick)

it works!

it also works with:

1	eventMap.mapListener(view, CustomEvent.CLICK, onClick ,CustomEvent,false,0,false);

after two hours of digging in, downgrading Robotlegs version, downgrading Flash IDE version, changing from PC to MAC, i just realized that i needed to ask to google san. (yeah!! after two hours i just realized that!, can you believe it??)

made the next search: “Weakreference + Robotlegs”

google’s response: 0.37 segs
google’s first result

my fix was, changing this:

public class Main extends MovieClip {
	public function Main() {
 
		var context:MainContext = new MainContext(this,false);
		context.startup();
 
	}	
}

for this:

public class Main extends MovieClip {
	private var context:MainContext;
 
	public function Main() {
 
		context = new MainContext(this,false);
		context.startup();
 
	}	
}

the GC was only doing his duty!
man, if i would have asked to google before, it would have saved two hours of my lifetime!.

Getting started with Robotlegs

Raúl — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:19:02 +0000

i want to share all these links with you, helps you to start playing with RobotLegs from the very begining.

http://www.robotlegs.org/

once you understand all the wireup thing, you will notice that using RL is very easy.

did i mention that Robotlegs rocks?????

New ActionScript Editor!

Raúl — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:37:12 +0000

i’ve been waiting this for months!!!
now the Realaxy Actionscript Editor (RASE) goes public beta

download and test it now!!

for more info, you can follow Den Ivanov’s blog.

cheers!

WebFont Loader

Raúl — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:30:30 +0000

Google’s new app WebFont Loader rocks!!, let`s you to add web fonts to your pages and
you don’t need to do any programming, just a basic knowledge of HTML & CSS (vary basic)
here’s a quick example:

just copy and paste the following code:


  
    
    
  
  
    Hello World!

and you will see something line this

Hello World!

in deep:

here we add a stylesheet link to request the desired web font

1	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Reenie+Beanie">

here we style an element with our web font

body {
        font-family: 'Reenie Beanie', serif;
        font-size: 48px;
     }

so now you can see how easy is to use this new app!

for more info:

How to Use the Google Font Directory With WordPress
Getting Started
Google Font Directory

Google Pacman

Raúl — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:10:57 +0000

if you enjoy playing pacman on the Google´s homepage
go to github and download it!!
there’s a copy of Google’s playable Pacman game!

macek / google_pacman

cheers!

Ooops!

Raúl — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:45:16 +0000

sorry about the last days, we were trying to implement the new skin like GrupoW’s blog, but
we found some problems on the road….

so skin update will come later =(

Cheers!!

Versions Tip

Raúl — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:26:43 +0000

if you wonder how the heck you could do branching or tagging in Versions.app (SVN Client for Mac)
just go to your repository (not the working copy), then drag the folder you want to tag to it’s destination, fill in the resulting dialog.

cheers.

Sound Manager

Raúl — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:31:59 +0000

i been using the Sound Manager from Matt Przybylski
for a while and added some little updates:
first make it work with the latest TweenLite Framework and to do that, you just need to make these changes:

firts, change TweenLite package from:

import gs.TweenLite;

to:

import com.greensock.TweenLite;

second, activate the VolumePlugin:

import com.greensock.plugins.TweenPlugin;
import com.greensock.plugins.VolumePlugin;

and in the Constructor, add this line:

TweenPlugin.activate([VolumePlugin]);

and that’s it, is all you need to make it work with TweenLite.

then, i added two functions to extend functionality

public function addSound($id:String):Boolean
{
	return addLibrarySound(getDefinitionByName($id), $id);
}
 
public function addMultiplesSounds(value:Array):void
{
	for each( var name_str:String in value) {
		addSound(name_str);
	}
}

the addSound function works the same as the addLibrarySound function
only hides the getDefinitionByName call (need it to create the sound item class) and sets the name id equals to the linkage id.

instead of using:

import com.reintroducing.sound.SoundManager;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
 
var manageSound:SoundManager=SoundManager.getInstance();
manageSound.addLibrarySound(getDefinitionByName("loop"), "loop");
manageSound.playSound("loop", 0, 0, 999);

just do this:

import com.reintroducing.sound.SoundManager;
 
var manageSound:SoundManager=SoundManager.getInstance();
manageSound.addSound("loop");
manageSound.playSound("loop", 0, 0, 999);

and the addMultiplesSounds function adds the functionality to create multiples sounds from the passed Array.
so you can do this:

i’d like to put all the sounds id’s in a Class, just to avoid misspells

package
{
	public class Sounds
	{
		static public const LOOP_SOUND = "LoopSound";
		static public const CLICK_SOUND01 = "ClickSound01";
		static public const CLICK_SOUND02 = "ClickSound02";
	}
}

and then just referring by the variable name

import com.reintroducing.sound.SoundManager;
 
var manageSound:SoundManager=SoundManager.getInstance();
manageSound.addMultiplesSounds([Sounds.LOOP_SOUND, Sounds.CLICK_SOUND01, Sounds.CLICK_SOUND02]);
manageSound.playSound(Sounds.LOOP_SOUND, 0, 0, 999);
manageSound.playSound(Sounds.CLICK_SOUND01);

download the final class here

for more information about how to use the SoundManager Class see here