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Progress on the Layout Organizers Library

Posted on 21 April, 2009 at 2:41pm with 3 comments

A long while back, I released a layout organizer library for Flash. The whole project was essentially an experiment-turned-released-code-collection and, as expected, there have been some growing pains going forward. I have been taking the time to rethink portions of the library and try to clean up and extend its functionality. One big push forward was the introduction of 3d layouts — however, it did not quite fit in with the prior structure. Well, I am very close to completing a fairly thorough rewrite of the library, which will be released in a less haphazard way. I have come to depend on this library for almost every project I have taken on — it just takes care of so much for you automatically. Read the rest of this post…

More Layout Organizers Developed

Posted on 5 February, 2008 at 11:24am with 12 comments

I am putting more work into my Layout Organizers project for various reasons. First, this code has already been quite helpful on a couple projects. Second, it is going to be worked in to a really cool open source Flex library. There are still a ton of features that need to be added and issues that need to be resolved, but progress is definitely being made. I spent time working on more primitive layout organizers that will be more helpful on everyday projects. The four new organizers are not anything fancy, but they will most likely be the most used out of all the ones I write.

Update: This code base has now been released under the name coordy. Read more.

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I am also starting to wrap more base functionality into the layout organizers such as the swap positions – there are still a few bugs that need to be worked out with this feature, but it’s moving along. If you have any ideas or thoughts on how to improve this project, by all means, let me know.

Actionscript 3 Layout Organizers Examples and Source Code

Posted on 7 January, 2008 at 6:00am with 23 comments

A while back, I posted a basic example of layout organizers and layout organizers applied to video. I kept talking about how cool I considered this idea to be, yet I had yet to truly explain the idea and (more importantly) the source code for people to download. I wanted to make sure the code was at a good spot before releasing it; I believe that is now the case. You will find examples, the basic gist on how it works and some possible reasons why layout organizers may just make your life easier.

Update: This code base has now been released under the name coordy. Read more.

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AS3 Layout Organizers Applied to Video

Posted on 13 September, 2007 at 9:42am with 7 comments

Last week, I showcased an idea of Flash layout organizers (source code is coming), that acts loosely the same as Flex containers. I have already started to use this basic idea and it has so far worked out very nicely for me. After posting my little experiment, I instantly thought of mashing up the layout organizer experiment with the Flash video sampler experiment I did a couple months back. The current example of bringing the two together is overly simplistic to better give the idea of what is happening, but I can already see tremendous potential for fun with this technique.

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This technique extensively uses the copyPixels method and the performance is much better than I honestly expected. The current example’s video is broken up into 225 individual boxes, each bitmaps pulling from the video every 40 milliseconds. That is a lot of computations. I wanted to drop this relatively sophomoric example out there to clearly show what this technique does – hopefully this week or next I will be able to have a little more fun with this and push the visual/interactive aspects.

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