Best of Senocular

[senocular]

Here are a lot of the more well put and explanatory threads Ive been involved with over the years. There are a lot more over in WH but their new site blows and the search is a pain to use, so I probably wont be posting much from there ;) otherwise they come from all over the place.

Determining the side being viewed for a 3D movie clip (FP10+)
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=315821

General (AS3)
ByteArray (BitmapData.getPixels, corrupting/uncorrupting SWF data)
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=720498

bitwise NOT operator
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=198082

AS3 Tip of the Day
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223798



General (AS1/AS2)
Deforming objects with triangles
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=128444

Oddities in Removing Components
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=491633#post491633

The Color Object
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&postid=159709

Associative Array Referencing
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12082

"Soft" References with MovieClips
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=45082

Relative and Absolute as in Referencing
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12462

Random Numbers
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=81617

_global
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12948
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17389

#include
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=29521

Use of switch
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15407

Object.watch
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=428453
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=25915

Movieclips in Buttons
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19984

Back and Forth in Arrays
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15558

Hex colors as/from RGB
http://www.were-here.com/forum/tm.asp?m=1265553

How || operates
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=25931

QT VRObject in Flash
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=379970

Isometric
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15767

"How Actionscript Thinks" (an attempt at least ;))
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=31272

Intro to XML and editing it in Flash
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13697

Trigonometry and rotating a 2D vector
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12181

3D in Flash
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=31108

enterFrame event
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=28620

Tricks of the Trade
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14268

Flash to Director (and Director's "me")
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=58278

EventDispatcher vs AsBroadcaster
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=68068

Accessing a Movie Clip's Frame Code When it First Appears on Stage
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=68966



OOP (AS 1.0)
import and classpath
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=134660

What prototypes are
http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=645

Inheritance among Classes
http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=604 (see comments)
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=28896

Movieclips Inheriting from Classes
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=430658
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=459377

__proto__ etc. (in depth)
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=462834

addProperty and prototypes
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=28857

Multiple Inheritance Workaround Using __resolve
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=461833

super()
http://forums.ultrashock.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21186
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=28710

Movieclips in Objects
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=28748

prototype vs _global
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=30048

init and apply for classes
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=187502
http://forums.ultrashock.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28549

OOP "creatures" exercise
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=26314

Small thing about ASBroadcaster with all Instances of class
http://www.were-here.com/forum/tm.asp?m=1265396


Also, a little less AS oriented, and more Flash MX in general is:
Flash MX, The Things You Might Have Missed
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23051

MXP and Packaging Components
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=30391




Im doing this before I forget them :) though Im sure there is some gold out there which has long since been wiped clean of my memory. Ill try to keep future good'uns posted here and add any I might recall from the past that are not already included.

[ahmed]

wow sen.. can we sticky this? =)

[mlk]

[F1][F1] Roger That !

- go ahead super-ahmedpower...
sen thnx a lot, especially for the protos and super() function =)

[pom]

All this should be tutorialized!

[lostinbeta]

You rock sen :!:

I agree with Ilyas, you should let Kirupa add these to his main site as tutorials =)

[senocular]

I really thought I had more out there on the basics of prototypes :-\ I couldnt find any though. Probably all in WH :sigh: Maybe Ill spout something out on DPs prototype thread and add it to the list here....

and anyone is welcome to tutorialize any of these, Im just too lazy (or dont have the time, or dont feel like I have the time) :)

[pom]

Thanks for the support, Lost :)

Ya hear, Sen? Stop ****in around, and get some work done, dammit!!

[lostinbeta]

Sen: Awww come on!!!! You gotta convert these to actual tutorials =)

Your OOP stuff is going to help me a lot... I hope.

[ahmed]

lol.. well can't WE tutorialize those threads instead of getting sen to do it =)

[lostinbeta]

Sure WE can =)

I am going on vacation tomorrow though... well... just for a weekend so I can work on some when I get back.

[senocular]

the iso one I figured Id do. Thats a biggie. And I was thinking about a 3D tut too. Other than that its a matter or linking to posts =)

[eyeinfinitude]

Sen I hate you, but then again I like you too much, but then again I hate you too much to like you, but then again....

Nevermind, you're awesome! Wanna trade brains? :P

[h88]

Really cool Sen, and you ought to write about watchers, I really find them useful. :)

By the way Sen, do you mind if you write another "explanatory thread" about bitwise operators? I found out they are pretty much useful with colour transformation. I searched for some info though, but there weren't really good explanations around that scope. :-\

[senocular]

oooh I have one floating around on watchers, I think on as.org, Ill go dig that up.

I can do one on bitwise too. The little color one on wh is probably the closest thing I have on here on them so far :-\ (lol though it explains absolutely nothing about them) Ill get around to doing one sooner or later ;)

[kirupa]

Originally posted by senocular
and anyone is welcome to tutorialize any of these, Im just too lazy (or dont have the time, or dont feel like I have the time) :)

I'll start on tutorializing them in a few mins :)

[pom]

One thing though: all the posts about OOP are really interesting, but they don't really make sense taken one by one. What I mean to say is this: it would be awesome if you could take all those posts, and rearrange them into a big tutorial :beam: if it's not too much to ask

[senocular]

yeah... after the 3d tutorial... after the iso tutorial... and after the bitwise tutorial :hangover:

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by senocular
yeah... after the 3d tutorial... after the iso tutorial... and after the bitwise tutorial :hangover: bitwhat?

:P i can help you with that (bitwise operations).

[ahmed]

Wow thor, you're so hot! :P

[kirupa]

Yeah Pom - I'll try to arrange them in a way where they make sense ;)

[Scootman]

theres a really good 3d tutorial on bit-101.com (how i made my footer).... kirupa do you link to other peoples tutes on this site or would you rather have your own? could save sen some time... heh

[ahmed]

Sen's tutorial, from what i saw so far, gets much more in-depth than bit-101's tutorial =)

[Scootman]

ya sorry i hadnt really checked it out much before i posted... didnt realize how in depth he got with it... i assumed it was a basic 3d type thing


it seems like that thread on as.org can be broken up into like 3 or 4 tutes almost... like a basic 3d rotation like on bit-101... then a mouse responsive one.... and like one with 3d movement dealing with the focal point and all that...and rotating the points and being able to move them like on as.org.... i dunno but if you had only 1 tute for that it would be very very long if you want to cover everything in that thread

[j0se]

i just want to thank Sen for all those links on this.thread

i read 'how actionscript thinks' last night and lots of things went 'click' in my head (which is quite worrying, but i'm having it looked at)

he's spent a great amount of time on what he does and has enough material there to make a book out of it all

put me down for a copy
:)

[BBatPA]

I recently bought Colin Moock's ActionScript for Flash MX 2nd Edition. It is my third addition to my Flash library.

What I'd like to know is, when are you going to find time to write your own ActionScript book senocular? It would be a must have in the order of Moock's IMO!!!

I'd be willing to pay for a handy desk reference to your infinite Flash and AS knowledge. (I shelled 50 bucks for Moock's....your's, to me, would be just as valuble!!!)

P.S. Is it possible you already have...??? If so where can I find it...???....If not, I'll be starting a thread to get you published....Where can I send you my money????:)

[senocular]

I just dont have the time ;) You'll have to stick with these crazy free online forums.

[BBatPA]

Originally posted by senocular
I just dont have the time ;) You'll have to stick with these crazy free online forums.
I have nothing but time.....Can we split the royalties....;)

:Edit: Your brain and my fingers....:thumb:

[ToyFiger]

i'd buy the book too ^^

[neverrain]

Four Words: Your f*ing amazing Senocular :D

[Littlekill]

hey senocular can i download your knowledge of flash and upload it into my brain?

[senocular]

Im working on a fla that will allow for that. Ill let you know when a beta is available :D

[Littlekill]

lol ALRIGHT sweet

[Ling Nightsky]

read through 1/4 of the list... gonna finish the whole bible soon
hehe

[GreenLantern]

Thanks senocular.

That is some very helpful information

[senocular]

glad you could make use of it :D

[FlashSwimmer]

senocular :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
... i think this thread must put in the TOP of Flash MX i saw it by luck because there are a lot of people don't enter Flash forums so i don't know how to tell all the Kirupains there is a treasure in the Kirupa :) :) .

[APDesign]

holy crapp.... how have I lived without Object.watch(); ?!?!

[McGuffin]

Nice job on the thread senocular. I'll throw a link to CyanBlue's thread so people can look at it too, even more impressive a list (;)):

Clicky! (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=31471)

[APDesign]

not a bad list at all. (senoculars is better, so :b)

[lostinbeta]

Colin: The list is more populated, but I still find Sens list more impressive since all the links are to threads where he himself has answered the questions in great depth and detail. CyanBlues list is just a list of useful threads which is all well and good, and just as useful, but the links in it really serve no purpose in a thread called "Best of Senocular" :beam:

Thanks for sharing though, some useful information in there :thumb:

[McGuffin]

We're talkin' bout the lists here, not the threads they link to (-:

[NovemberRain]

Thank you very much for all u've done....especially the flash and isometry tutorials....ofcourse an offbeat experience for a flash developer

[SteadyScene]

Senocular,

I was checking out your Dynamic Waves with Mouse.fla and was wondering if you would have any feedback on possibly making it appear (graphic) like the ocean. I am going to do a Surfing website and your effect would be really nice.

Maybe an image mask? Not sure..

Let me know! Thanks!

Daniel

[Kole]

*Bows Down*

[ch0pstikninja]

woah! I didn't even know flash had binary shifts! I'll def be using them more often now!
thanks sen!

[Neil]

HOLY **** .... Man, today is the DAY!!! .... I didnt know anything about SEN, but now, i visited his site, www.senocular.com and also, checked this thread ( although it was sticky :P ) ... i am just dumbstruct ... you are a GENIUS :) ....

Ya'll, guys like scotty, cyberathlete, pom, lostinbeta, ahmed, h88, and bunch of others are insane.......sorry, if i missed your name :) :crazy: :A+:

[alarew]

Hi ,
I have looked around and not found an answer for this but Im sure its out there. I am trying to create a flash mx 2004 that grabs blocks of cdata from and xml file and dumps them into a dynamic text field that has a css formatting set to it. I will have several pages of text fields that I hope I can populate with the xml feed. Problem is, after the first frame, I cant carry any values forward to different pages. It just doesnt show up . undefined in trace (myText3); or whatever text field after the first one on the first page. It works for the first page only where all the assignment code is place. I cant seem to get global variables to work either. Any suggestions? I have to fix this problem soon and am tearing my hair out.

Thanks

//init TextArea component

myText.html = true;
myText.wordWrap = true;
myText.multiline = true;
myText.label.condenseWhite=true;
myText.vScrollPolicy = "off";
myText.borderStyle = 'none';
/******************************/
myText2.html = true;
myText2.wordWrap = true;
myText2.multiline = true;
myText2.label.condenseWhite=true;
myText2.vScrollPolicy = "off";
myText2.borderStyle = 'none';
/******************************/
myText3.html = true;
myText3.wordWrap = true;
myText3.multiline = true;
myText3.label.condenseWhite=true;
myText3.vScrollPolicy = "off";
myText3.borderStyle = 'none';

//load css
cityStyle = new TextField.StyleSheet();
cityStyle.load("kungfu.css");
myText.styleSheet = cityStyle;
myText2.styleSheet = cityStyle;
myText3.styleSheet = cityStyle;

/******************************/
//load in XML
column1 = new XML();
column1.ignoreWhite = true;
column1.load("citydata.xml");
column1.onLoad = function(success)
{
if(success)
{
trace(colTwo);

colOne = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
colTwo = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
colThree = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
myText.text = _root.colOne;
myText2.text = _root.colTwo;

myText3.text = _global.colThree;

}
}

Albert

[Scarab]

1st point, this thread shouldn't be here ~mod?

provided you are reading in the xml correctly (I dont know the format of the XML file) I think your mistake is the varaible assignment. Try this:
_root.colOne = ....
_root.colTwo = ...
_root.colThree = ...
myText.text = _root.colOne;
myText2.text = _root.colTwo;
myText3.text = _root.colThree;

This way you assign the value to the _root var and read it from the same _ _root var.
Hope this helps,
Scarab

[senocular]

added an AS3 section :pleased: including an interesting thread on Flashkit concerning ByteArray

[kunwaramarjeet]

hi to all by one who dare to change the world of scripting.

[senocular]

added
import and classpath
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=134660