Ryan Bosinger

Just now I ran into a problem when trying to use to VideoPlayer class for the first time.  Dang.

 http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=153762

I just discovered how great the browser Flock is for blogging! I managed to set it up to work with my Wordpress blog (the one your reading). Now I can simply right-click on any page, and select “blog this“. A nice, fast, GUI editor pops up within Flock and I can write my post, format the text how I’d like and even drag images off of web pages in Flock right into my post. I had been meaning to try this out for a few months now, and I’m glad I finally did.

Flock uses the Gecko rendering engine, and is set-up to work a lot like Firefox. If you’re a Firefox fan, give Flock a try.

Note: As I’m writing this post I just discovered that this editor doesn’t use very good XHTML. When making the text italic it used a span tag with an inline style instead of an em. Oh well.. it’s still cool.

Click above for a giant layout of all the APE classes and the way they inherit each other. Definitely helpful.

If you have any interest in Flash + Math/Physics, I recommend you try out APE (the Actionscript Physics Engine) library by Alec Cove. It’s a set of AS3 classes that will easily let you create a world of particles that are affected by physics. If you’ve ever thought about making an action-type game, this might be the place for you to start.

Just today I stumbled upon some great examples by a guy named Andrew Garrahan that were posted to Google Group called APE General.

Follow this link to see the examples: APE Cornerstones: Basic Examples

(Thanks Andrew, these should really help me get started)

There’s also some other great examples in this group and I imagine it will grow as well. I hope this helps someone out there!

I had some trouble with the CS3 UIScrollbar properly latching onto a dynamic textbox earlier this week. I found a solution and I thought I’d share.