I’m working on a project where I wanted to use easing other than linear and Zeno’s paradox, but am unable to use Robert Penner’s wonderful equations.
After a little toying around, I came up with a set of equations that use square root to create a smooth tween.
I don’t usually post software links, but KeneticFusion by Kenesis Software is very cool. It allows you to decompile a swf into xml or compile xml to a swf. This may not seem like a big deal to some, but this software is so far along and is free. It decompiled a large swf/project that I did a while back without a hitch.
Some other things to note:
1. The documentation is there with a bunch of samples
2. There is work underway to develop an xml Schema
3. This might be an answer to some people who want to be able to version control their projects (including Fla’s). Since your project would be xml based, you could have CVS keep a record of all the changes!
4. ItÂ’s just cool!
I caught a cold over the weekend in New York and have been a bit slow to post my wrap-up on Flash Forward.
Flash Forward NY was a great event. We got a lot of good feedback at our booth and the presentations I attended were very well prepared. The attendance seemed to me a bit low in comparison to the San Francisco event but that could just be me..
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The question of plotting a line graph with thousands of data points came up again today. This always puzzled me; if your chart is only 500 pixels wide, why would you try to draw a chart with 1000 points? It would leave only half a pixel for each point. Flash is kewl but it won’t render half pixels and even if it did, rendering 1000 lines in Flash is a little slow.
I was going to post some information about the Flash Forward but Greg Burch and Josh Dura both have done a great job so why re-hash it all.
One interesting bit was the Form-based demo that was shown. It was running inside what looked like the Flash-IDE. I took a few blurry pictures (I wasn’t sitting too close during the kynote) of this and other parts of the keynote and will put those online when I get back home.