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Reading Learning iOS Game Programming book by Michael Daley, i found this handy class created by Matt Gallagher. SynthesizeSingleton macro enables you to turn a class into a singleton class simply by adding a line of code to your header and another to your implementation. The intent of the Singleton pattern as defined in Design Patterns is to “ensure a class has only one instance, and provide a global point of access to it”.

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KissXML was inspired by the TouchXML project, but it was created to add full support for generating XML as well as supporting the entire NSXML API. KissXML is a good approach for parsing xml data, and the x-path functionallity makes it more powerful, you could also use NSXMLParser, it’s not bad but it’s very very slow and it uses lots of memory.

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this past weeks have been exciting!, i decided to give it a try to iphone game development.
to get into it, i read the “Head First iPhone Development” book.

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here’s a demostration of using robotlegs with Twitter API and the new features of Flint v2.2
thanks to Richarld Lord for the updates they’re really great!

enjoy: http://github.com/rauluranga/robotlegs-examples-TwitterFlint.

i can explain all the code, step by step but i think it’s more interesting
if you go and put your dirty hands on it!

http://github.com/rauluranga/robotlegs-modular-example

just remember Mr. ModuleEventDispathcer it’s the movie star.

yes!, believe it or not finally i gave up and i decided to give it a try

http://twitter.com/rauluranga

i can just say WOW!, C4RL05 Ulloa just continue amazing me, now with this incredible racer game made it in Unity3D go now and play it!

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!

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!

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:

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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:

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view.addEventListener(CustomEvent.CLICK, onClick)

it works!

it also works with:

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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:

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

for this:

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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!.