There has been quite an onset of controversy surrounding Facebook as of late. Privacy issues, security issues, leaked IM messages, chats that can be seen by people not involved in the chat, Zynga threatening to leave, and the like. Seems like just the right time to jump in head first and make some wall spamming apps don’t you think? So we figured we would sit down, see how it works, and try to come up with an easy way to allow for flash apps to talk to the all mighty Facebook API/Data… So here goes nothin’!

While in the midst of the some new rigid-body physics experiments (a continuation from my previous post on Jakobsen-style position based dynamics: (http://labs.byhook.com/2010/02/11/fuzzy-physics-3-1-rigid-body-dynamics-pt-1/) , the hooplah around the iPad and Apple getting all ‘The Hills’ on Adobe provided a welcome excuse for trying something with a completely different perspective. With the tech world’s lips aflutter and teeth agnashing about HTML5 and it’s impact on the web, we decided to use a couple days between projects to dig in and see how we could translate our Flash awesomeness to something a little more worthy of having a lower case i before it.

Ah, the mouse scroll wheel. It used to be so simple, and so obvious. Couldn’t we have just left it alone, and come to some gentleman’s agreement on how the browsers notify your objects of what the user just did with the wheel? Sadly however, the reality is that this is not the case. Different [...]

Download Hook Position Manager v2 To install simply double click on the downloaded .mxp file, or open the .mxp file in Adobe Extension Manager. This panel is a continuation of the Position Manager panel found here: Position Manager Panel The goals of the panel remain the same, make it easier copy position information from one [...]

AS3: Download Library Download Full Example Download Documentation AS2: This version is a bit crippled due to the fact that we can’t get a direct stack trace from the Error class. For A specific list of missing features, please see the bottom of this post: Download AS2 Library Download AS2 Full Example Ok, I’ll be [...]

Kutout is an as3 (Actionscript 3) open-source library and sample application for image extraction and object extraction from images in Flash. The methodology behind the approach was taken from the java implementation of a pre-existing open-source solution called SIOX (Simple Interactive Object Extraction).

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Download Hook Deep Copy Lets say you are an epic flash button maker, and you have just finished your latest masterpiece. This is good news, everyone in the office rejoices, flood waters recede, the hungry get fed, and world peace overcomes the planet. (I wasn’t kidding about epic). Your new piece of hotness is released [...]