Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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Subtitles Viewer available on the App Store
An app I’ve been working on, ‘Subtitles Viewer’ is now available on the App Store! Click here to download. Subtitles Viewer allows you to download subtitles on your iOS device, and then…
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The Perfect Storm – AIR iOS simulator/TLF issues
Was making changes to an app built with Flash for iOS, when I discovered that incompatibilities between the new XCode and Flash means that no longer(at the time of writing) is it possible to test or…
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Punctuation in RTL text in Objective C
In the subtitles project I’m working on, I had the need to display Hebrew and Arabic, both RTL (right to left) languages. Having not worked with RTL text before, I wasn’t aware…
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Optional parameters in methods in Objective C
Methods in Objective C are actually called messages but they’re often referred to as methods, a more commonly used terminology. Optional parameters are treated in an interesting way in Objective C. Basically…
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Default String representation of an NSObject
In Actionscript, if you subclass Object, and you want a default string representation of your subclass, you just implement the method ‘toString’. For example the following: [sourcecode language=”actionscript3″] package { public class…
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Getters and Setters in Objective C
Doing a lot of Objective C lately, thought it worthwhile to write a few key differences with Actionscript. To begin with today – getters and setters! Properties in Objective C are automatically…
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the trick for registering a class for shared object
registerClassAlias is a great way for SharedObject to recognise the class type that you’re storing rather than just a random object. However – something that seems to be undocumented – I’ve discovered…
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Publishing Android app in the Air Developer Tool
I’ve been working on an Android app lately, built in ActionScript. There’s a problem within the Flash IDE when publishing an Android app, that the icons available haven’t yet been updated to…
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binding functions
I’ve been working on a Space Invaders style game with the request from the client that it be “developed in HTML5 and works in IE8″.(!!) A bit of a contradiction in terms.…
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State Manager
I was working recently on a MovieClip which had several different states, where the elements were in different positions, or in some states certain elements didn’t exist. I guess there are two…