Areas of Expertise:
- RIA Development
- ActionScript
- Design Patterns
- User Experience
- Casual Game Design
- Instructional Design
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Chandima blogs at:
http://www.as3dp.com/
ActionScript 3.0 Bitmaps, Clones and ColorTransforms
April 22 2012
Less is More Ever since I started working with mobile devices with Flash and ActionScript 3.0, I’ve been looking for faster ways to move my objects through those little windows on iPhones, Androids and Blackberries. Lag time is huge and the action looks geriatric. I’ve seen some interesting things done… read moreActionScript 3.0 Bitmap Classes: The Bitmap Factory Method At Work
April 13 2012
Building a Bitmap Factory The idea of taking a perfectly good graphic file and taking it apart and putting it back together again has a surprising appeal. You may wonder why one would want to do that? For me, it’s a chance to explore the Bitmap classes built into ActionScript… read moreActionScript 3.0 Factory Method Expansion: The UI Factory
March 25 2012
Adding New Product to Existing Factory In creating the Button Factory example (see previous post), I wanted to add more to it for a full UI factory. The problem is that the Creator participant returned a Sprite and I wanted to be able to assign text values to instances the… read moreThe Button Factory: Labels and Buttons from the Same Factory Methods
March 18 2012
Beginning of a UI Factory The other day I was looking at an ActionScript 3.0 program, and the developer used a ‘UI Factory.’ I looked at it, and while the program did indeed get UIs from the UIFactory class, it wasn’t a design pattern. Instead the UI Factory was just… read moreRecursion: An ActionScript 3.0 Problem or Problem Solver?
February 26 2012
Why Recursion? (Again) In previous posts we’ve considered recursion, and while not rejecting recursion out of hand, it’s been roughed up a bit, especially by smart reader comments. (You can see posts on recursion here.) For those of you who may be new to the recursive concept, it refers to… read moreThe Grid State: Movement in Mobile
February 12 2012
Matrix Work As our desktop screens soar to new heights in size, we find ourselves coping with smaller platforms for mobile viewing. To address this problem, developers simply move from one cell, grid or section to another. Each new cell becomes the full screen. For example, a 3 x 3… read moreAlso find Chandima on:
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