Pattern generated by Orbiter App
Just put in the data and let it go. Looks pretty sweet I thought.
Air Traffic Control Simulator
Just watch, and click on planes and VORs. Just for shits and giggles.
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fl.controls.Button width issues…
So recently I’ve had a few problems with the component button in Flash. Essentially I wanted the button to resize automatically to fit to the text inside and was amazed to find out (after all these years) that it doesn’t have this method! Crazy.
Anyway I managed to find a class by a dude called Matt Sweetman (http://webroo.org/2009/05/11/auto-size-button-for-flash-cs-components/) which extends the Button and adds the auto-size to it. All well and good, except that it’s still a bitch trying to align them, because we don’t know the width of the buttons when we’re cycling through them in a “for” loop. The drawLayout() method isn’t fired instantly so the alignment can’t be achieved.
The solution I came up with was to use Matt Sweetman’s class and add a dispatchEvent to it once the auto-size has been performed. You will need to set up a variable to catch the amount of buttons that have finished with their drawLayout() methods. Once this has been done simply call getRealWidth() [I've added this as the _width property is protected and the width property isn't accurate] on each one and then you can align them correctly. Hopefully someone will find this useful.
Here’s the amended class :
package components
{
import fl.controls.Button;
import fl.core.InvalidationType;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
public class AutoSizeButton extends Button
{
// Original class written by Matt Sweetman - http://webroo.org/
// Ammended by Dan Sanderson - http://pldm.co.uk
public static const BUTTON_READY : String = "Button Ready";
public function AutoSizeButton()
{
super();
}
protected var _autoSize:Boolean = true;
/**
* Whether auto sizing is turned on. Default is true.
*/
public function get autoSize():Boolean
{
return _autoSize;
}
public function set autoSize(value:Boolean):void
{
_autoSize = value;
textField.autoSize = _autoSize ? TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT
: TextFieldAutoSize.NONE;
invalidate(InvalidationType.SIZE);
}
override protected function drawLayout():void
{
if (autoSize)
{
// Set the component width by calculating
// text & padding widths
var txtPad:Number = Number(getStyleValue("textPadding"));
_width = (textField.textWidth + 4) + (2 * txtPad);
}
super.drawLayout();
// Firing this so that we can align the buttons.
dispatchEvent(new Event(AutoSizeButton.BUTTON_READY));
}
public function getRealWidth() : Number
{
return _width;
}
}
}
Statistics by Countries
Any excuse for drawing flags.
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Sources :
Wikipedia, List of Countries by GDP (nominal)
Forbes, World’s Fattest Countries
Wikipedia, List of Countries by literacy rate
Wikipedia, FIFA World Rankings
Wikipedia, List of countries by population
Wikipedia, List of countries by suicide rate
Night time photo – 30 second shutter speed
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The large dot on the right is Jupiter. I’m not sure what the star cluster in the middle is though.
Music Chamber
Headphones or speakers required. Pretty simple Box2D thing, quite fun until it get irritating.
Click image to launch SWF
Source code here : [http://www.pldm.co.uk/music_chamber/music_chamber_sourcecode.zip]
