Ben Garney

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  • Array Ordering in ActionScript 3

    Update: I filed a bug about this issue. This post starts out with a finite state machine, but it ends up talking about how iteration is implementing in ActionScript. There I was – implementing a finite state machine. Each state had transitions, and the transitions are named and, additionally, processed in order. This is useful…

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  • ActionScript 3 Reflection: list fields on an object with ClassFieldCache

    Say you’re working on some sort of reflection/deserialization system in Flex, Flash, or another ActionScript 3 technology. It would be nice to know the type of all the fields on an object or class, including accessors, so that you can automagically infer the right way to parse your serialization data. You can use describeType to…

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  • Forest Pack – Finally out the door

    It took a few years, but I finally released the fixed function GL forest renderer I was working on for Torque. You can find out all about it at my .plan on GarageGames. Various businessy things got in the way of releasing it (and perhaps a bit of apathy on my own part … but…

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  • SpaceNavigator Support for Sauerbraten

    I recently got a 3dconnexion SpaceNavigator after trying a friend’s. Really neat device. 6 degrees of freedom in a slick little package, and only $50. And it’s actually fun to use – not frustrating and cheap-feeling like many other “weird” input devices I’ve tried. Its big brother is the same knob with some extra buttons…

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  • Using the Domain class in Tamarin for dynamic code loading

    Using the Domain ActionScript class (as opposed to the C++ class of the same name) in Tamarin is actually really easy. This class isn’t available under Flash 9 for security reasons. It lets you load new ActionScript code at runtime, as our example will demonstrate. Dynamic code loading is pretty cool functionality – it could…

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  • Debugging Tamarin

    I’m getting my feet wet in Tamarin, the open-source ActionScript 3 runtime from Adobe – same code that’s in Flash 9. It’s cool tech, and I’m ecstatic that they had the cajones to bring it out into the world – where it’ll definitely make the world a better place. This gets kind of technical so…

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  • SuperMate

    So I own this Griffin PowerMate, which is essentially a USB knob with a light under it. It’s pretty cool – solid construction, simple operation. But the software it comes with is a little limited, and it’s not been updated in a while. All I want, says I to myself, is to make iTunes pause…

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