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Helper Class For Delayed Code Execution In AS3

This is a small class that I use very often. Its purpose is to simplify the execution of methods after a specific delay. Normally you would have to create a new Timer instance, attach an event listener for the TimerEvent.TIMER event and find a way to store the arguments that ...

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Simple Touch Interface for an Imaginary Video Rental Store

This is an AIR application I built for an assignment in the course Interactive Systems at the university. This video demonstrates all features like touch guestures and filtering. Since I don't own a touchscreen, this is only a "fake" touch video. I'd love to try this out on ...

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Hyphenation in ActionScript

There are a lot of nice text features in the new flash text layout framework but obviosly there is still one important feature missing: Hyphenation. Until today, there is no native hyphenation support in the flashplayer. I decided to fill this gap by porting the Hyphenator.js library by Mathias Nater to ActionScript. In this post I'll demonstrate text hyphenation in flash.

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Map Rendering Speed: Flash vs. HTML5 Canvas

Many people are talking about html5 and the death of Flash in these days, so I decided to do a small speed comparison of map renderings between HTML5 and Flash. I took the quick and dirty example from my previous map rendering tutorial and ported it into html5/javascript. The ...

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Tutorial: Rendering a World Map in ActionScript

This tutorial is the third part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It demonstrates how to draw a world map using the as3-proj library and some helper classes. I assume that we read in a shapefile using the SHP library as shown in the previous tutorial.

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Tutorial: Reading ESRI Shapefiles in ActionScript

This tutorial is the second part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It shows how to import a shapefile into ActionScript via the SHP library by Edwin van Rijkom.

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Reading ESRI Shapefiles in PHP

This tutorial is the first part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It shows how to extract plain coordinates out of a shapefile using the PHP Class Shapefile Reader by Juan Carlos Gonzales.

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Map Projection in ActionScript

Today I want to introduce as3-proj, an actionscript port of the java map projection library by Jerry Huxtable, which is itself an partial port of the PROJ.4 library. It's basically a huge set of over sixty ...

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Unicode Range For Windows-1252 Charset

Just a small post today, in case that someone needs the character range for the windows-1252 charset while embedding fonts with actionscript: U+0000-U+007F,U+20AC,U+201A,U+0192,U+201E,U+2026,U+2020,U+2021,U+20C6,U+2030, U+0160,U+2039,U+0152,U+017D,U+2018,U+2019,U+201C,U+201D,U+2022,U+2013,U+2014, U+20DC,U+2122,U+0161,U+203A,U+0153,U+017E,U+0178,U+00A0-U+00FF

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Finding and removing UTF-8 signatures in PHP

Today I wrote a simple little php script that reads a couple of xml files inside a folder, makes some minor modifications and outputs them as one single xml file. All xml files are encoded in utf-8. More precisely, the files are encoded in utf8-signature or utf8-bom, which means that ...

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