If you use WordPress (I am using 2.7), you may have experienced the WordPress formatting quirks and annoyances. It is annoying it is to include JavaScript or Flash into WordPress posts. The code you entered kept getting reformatted, even when using html editing mode. Plus, when using the build-in uploader, the Javascript and SWF filenames […]
Background FlashVars is a mechanism to pass variables to a Flash SWF file. It is similar to a query-string and you can read more about it on this tutorial. FlashVars is useful to pass custom data and to customize the content of a SWF file. For overview of the FlashVars, look here. In the old […]
Cocos2d: Adding Handler To Touch Events
June 4, 2009
When using the Director on Cocos2d and you have a Scene object in the window, your program will not receive touch events. So, your UIApplicationDelegate implementation will not receive touchesBegan notification. You can override this behavior by 1) implementing the TouchEventsDelegate protocol, which has the following specification: 2) Associate the event handler with the […]
Dashcode Invader: Using Dashcode To Create A Game
May 29, 2009
In this tutorial, we will continue building a simple space-invader type game. We will be continuing from the tutorial presented in Part1 at https://permadi.com/blog/?p=1131; however, we are making some major changes, and I’ll explain why. The first change has to do with restructuring the CSS code so that most of the objects within the game […]
Create a new Project. Make sure the Components window is open. If not, open it using Window->Components. Drag component from the Components window into the stage. Resize it to the size you want. In the next step, you can decide the scaling mode of the video, such as maintainAspectRatio or noScale. Open the Parameters window. Use […]
Dashcode is another tool that comes with Apple iPhone SDK. It allows you to create simple applications. You can read an introduction to Apple’s Dashcode here. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate interactivity and animation. Familiarity with JavaScript and CSS is assumed. Our example will be a framework for a space-invader type game. There will […]
Included in the iPhone SDK is another “application-builder” named Dashcode. If you have the iPhone SDK installed (and the iPhone SDK is the only way to get Dashcode as far as I know), then you can find Dashcode at Developers::Applications folder. The icon looks like this: Dashcode was originally a tool for developing Widgets, is […]
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May 16, 2009
iPhone SDK Sound Playback Example – Project Download
May 15, 2009
This article continues from Part 1 and Part 2. We will be using the project created previously. This time, the focus is basic sound playback. We will use one of Apple examples which makes it easy to load and play sound files. You can find the original files at Apple Developer Network by searching for […]