TomMannino.com

So we just updated.

UPDATED GAME!
The Junk Snake game got a soundtrack. It’s very cool and creepy. The title screen music is VERY VERY catchy. I kinda had it looped a lot today. =P Also a few days ago we changed the game mechanic around, now the gems come in addition to a garbage drop.
http://www.twinskies.com/minigames/flash/junkworm

NEW GAME!
LEGENDS OF LAUNDRY!!!!!!
http://www.twinskies.com/minigames/flash/lol
This game is a LOT of fun. It’s a match-three concept except you match the colors by DRAWING on them. Help Elena do the towns wash. Go for the biggest combos you can. Keep an eye out for Sooty, Elena’s cat. He likes to sleep in the laundry and sometimes gets mixed up with the wash. BAD MAU! (P.s. I have a big crush on Elena, but don’t tell her.)

Flash Player 10 is out. That means cool things. It’s got new features and things that I have to poke around with. However I don’t have time at the moment, so I’m saving these links here to play with soon. Here, hold this.

Adobe Labs - Flash Player 10 Feature Demos and Videos

DisplayObject - ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference

ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference

10 + ActionScript APIs Mashing up Web 2.0 the RIA Way

http://boreal-kiss.com/flash/ex/

This is the first security hole I’ve ever seen in Flash. Make sure you have the latest version of Flash here:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507

Have you got Flash player 9,0,115,0 or earlier? Check. No, really, do it now. These versions are apparently vulnerable to an exploit that can put malicious software on your system, including keyloggers that are set to swipe MMO passwords and credentials, like your World of Warcraft account. This is happening right now, according to Symantec.

The latest update, version 9,0,124,0 is apparently not vulnerable to the exploit according to Adobe. You should probably get that version now, if you trust Adobe’s information. If you trust Symantec’s alert, only versions 115 and 124 are vulnerable, and this is a new exploit, and not the one that Adobe is talking about. If you want to play it safe, go plug the No-Script add-on or Flashblock into your Firefox browser, and breathe a huge sigh of relief until everyone gets their story straight (but check your system for malware first, okay?)

http://www.massively.com/2008/05/28/flash-hungers-for-your-keystrokes/

Squished together from the post and a comment, when making a pure-AS application using Eclipse/Flex 2/3, you can control the width, height, initial framerate and background color using metadata tags. Metadata tags are used by the compiler, but not the swf. In other words, it tells the compiler to do something when it’s putting everything together, and are special instructions it only needs to do the one time.

Tomorrow I being my first pure-AS project! Writing an entire game in code and not technically using Flash CS3, other then dealing with art! Wish me luck!

package
{
[SWF(width="300", height="200", frameRate="18", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF")]
public class MyApp extends Sprite
{
…
}
}

Cool. Aaron and I were trying to find how to do this at quittin’ time today, I dug it up with the magic of the google.

mikemo » Setting the width and height of a pure-ActionScript application