The flash.geom.Point Class is Slow

… at least on my system. This past week I decided to upgrade my flocking simulation project to use the Flash 8 Point class. I had a 2D coordinate class, as I’m sure many people do, and I expected I’d retire it. But it turned out that changing over to flash.geom.Point slowed the . . . → Read More: The flash.geom.Point Class is Slow

From C++ to ActionScript 2.0, 4: Abstract Classes

It’s not difficult to create an abstract class in ActionScript 2.0. Here’s how. . . . → Read More: From C++ to ActionScript 2.0, 4: Abstract Classes

I Gotcha ToolTip Right Heah

I was glad to see the latest in Lee Brimelow’s great series of video Flash tutorials, this one on making tooltips in Flash. I’d been meaning to implement tooltips in my current project for a while, and this got me going. But you know I always prefer to do it in code that I . . . → Read More: I Gotcha ToolTip Right Heah