tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22729605498676997332024-03-04T12:23:27.621-08:00gludiongludion blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-84856370907305571952014-01-03T10:21:00.001-08:002014-01-03T10:21:19.163-08:00Happy new yearDésolé, j'avais complètement oublié que j'avais un blog! Bonne année à mes abonnés :D
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-49226996707787319942012-09-04T11:38:00.001-07:002012-09-04T11:48:42.166-07:00NBSP in Flash Using NBSP (non-breakable space) in flash is non-obvious.
Some method using htmlText exist (use  , which was not supported but now is), but if for some reason you don't want to use HTML, here is a workaround:
use the special character "\u00A0" (UTF-8 code
00A0) in your actionscript code to put nbsp anywhere you want;
voilà! Test your SWF and check.
if some weird square Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-27674151903728250702011-04-03T06:38:00.000-07:002011-04-04T02:05:20.684-07:00Documentaires "déprimants"?Mon ami Magicfred (qui est aussi mon corres. au Canada ) m'a récemment envoyé une "trauma-liste" (je le cite) qui récapitule les "reportages [...] sur la descente aux enfers du monde occidental", lesquels ont connu quelque succés sur le web pendant ces dernières années.
Cette liste étant d'intérêt public, la voici (avec des liens donnant accès aux VF):
L'argent-dette (Paul Grignon)
Notre poison Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-486073662656000442010-11-09T06:38:00.000-08:002010-11-09T08:38:18.102-08:00Flash dinosaurs: 1998 flash 3 games!!This post was inspired by a recent video (in french) about flash past and future.
In 1998 I've done 2 games for a french web agency (FKGB) for distribution on a web portal (Chello): GunMan series! The distribution rights were 5-years exclusive so it's ok now .
It was my beginnings in professional Flash game development and the technology was Flash 3. The only programming instructions were Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-68481976067818905582010-10-07T09:13:00.000-07:002012-09-07T05:46:41.882-07:00Les 3 composantes d'un jeu vidéoAutant l'avouer: tiraillé par le remors d'avoir laissé dormir ce blog pendant plusieurs mois, j'étais parti dans l'idée de faire un article à propos de l'excellent livre sur Gunpei Yokoi et ses techniques de pensée latérale (ce qui était, au fond, l'objectif secret de l'article, héhé, avec l'intention de bifurquer sur ce non moins excellent livre de Edward De Bono: "Lateral Thinking").
MAISUnknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-81053042344964576152010-09-14T08:45:00.000-07:002010-09-15T04:18:09.531-07:00HTML IMG resizerRecently I wanted to vizualize huge (2000+) amounts of pictures from my Microbes databases and it was surprisingly convenient to use Adobe Bridge to index and browse them. Now, I mainly use Bridge to select images by Tags corresponding to the parts of the "microbial-world" documents I'm working on.However, when I drag & dropped these picts in a HTML page (using Dreamweaver), they kept their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-49194166174657151272010-02-26T06:52:00.000-08:002010-02-26T11:56:59.247-08:00Fix to Linkedin problem?Alleluia !!
I finally found a fix to this very annoying problem with Linkedin (that Linkedin never solved by themselves ): Linkedin becomes so slow that pages never load (it seems that hundreds of people have this problem: link 1, link 2, etc..)
Linkedin must hide a tremendous amount of "technical expertise" for being the only website causing "internet protocol side effects" or whatever... Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-12053537200322018882010-02-11T07:41:00.000-08:002010-02-24T05:23:38.718-08:00Goswf version 0.94GOSWF now allow to pass directly SGF data in replacement of the sgf URL.
Example of HTML code:
<EMBED
src="http://YOUR_SITE/goswf.swf"
flashvars="url=(;GM[1]AW[bb][cb][cc][cd][de][df][cg][ch][dh][ai][bi][ci]AB[ba][ab][ac][bc][bd][be][cf][bg][bh](;B[af];W[ah](;B[ce];W[ag] C[only one eye this way])(;B[ag];W[ce]))(;B[ah];W[af](;B[ae];W[bf];B[ag];W[bf](;B[af];W[ce]C[oops! you can't take this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-25838057567043381252010-01-25T10:15:00.000-08:002010-01-25T10:15:32.618-08:00Happy New Year / Bonne année This (gentle) microbe has been observed recently.Ce (gentil) microbe a été observé récemment.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-75594148533964184302009-12-30T06:05:00.000-08:002010-01-18T16:48:58.929-08:00Enorme bug dans Zelda Spirit TracksPardon pour ce titre un tantinet provoquant , mais j'en croyais pas mes paupières:
Quizz rigolo (et éducatif), quelle est la bonne formule?
Si tu veux allé voir...
Si tu veux aller voir...
Si tu veux allée voir...
Solution: lire le proverbe africain caché dans cet article ou bien sélectionner le texte qui suit: "Si tu veux aller vite, vas-y seul, mais si tu veux aller loin, alors il faut y Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-24304946449616248462009-12-21T06:34:00.000-08:002010-02-24T05:25:55.236-08:00Black & white characters
Graphic researches.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-91391222948285531792009-12-10T09:03:00.000-08:002010-02-24T05:24:04.233-08:00Right-click shell integration for secureSWFMany Flash game developpers encrypt their SWFs files in order to protect their actionscript code, and make it difficult (and hopefully impossible) to anyone to crack/hack the game (scoring, locks, site locking, etc..).
There are lots of flash obfuscators, and secureSWF is, as far as I know, the most advanced: it gives a lot of control and offers tons of options. However I generally use the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-53313757377414825662009-08-26T15:26:00.000-07:002012-08-06T07:39:38.925-07:00Distance to a Quadratic bezier curveRecently, after viewing this illuminating animated GIFs, I realized that finding the closest point on a quadratic Bezier curve to a given point M might be not so difficult ...and very useful for detecting collision between a disk and a quadratic curve.
Quadratic Bezier curves are familiar to flash programmers, because these are the curves they draw with functions like Movieclip.moveTo() and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-41716478795573572542009-08-20T04:10:00.000-07:002009-08-20T04:47:56.877-07:00"Contour following" !!"Contour following" is fashionable these days !!ScoreLight is a musical device using a "tactile" laser trying to follow the contours of the shapes it lightens.This video speaks for itself:"There is no camera nor projector: a laser spot explores the shape as a pick-up head would search for sound over the surface of a vinyl record - with the significant difference that the groove is generated by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-37709551490756987842009-08-15T11:05:00.000-07:002009-08-17T04:02:19.634-07:00Goswf integration in your blogTest:Yess, it works !!!In 2008, I released Goswf, a light-weight viewer for displaying Go games on websites (forums, blogs, etc., ...).Goswf can now be displayed in vertical format, which is much more suitable for blogs.I've also simplified color management for more esthetic integration in hosting websites.Check this tutorial for integrating in your blog.[EDIT: this method only works with a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-8761866235471103942009-07-27T10:38:00.000-07:002009-07-27T10:46:50.295-07:00More sphere mappingNot so different from a previous post, but... some new designs, and different ways to visualize the result (ie flat/transparent/lines): Click on the left orange buttons to see different designs.You can use the text editor to define your disks.[xA = x angle, yA = y angle, op = cone aperture, col = color]Thanks to Lolo from Globz for the globulos design (10th button) .Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-9102913517774997722009-01-30T04:18:00.001-08:002010-02-24T05:24:49.499-08:00Au fait, bonne année ;)
Héhé, ui ui je sais je suis à la bourre au niveau du délai .. (mais bon on est encore en janvier, na! )Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-5527023024811617762009-01-26T08:01:00.000-08:002009-08-20T04:50:57.479-07:00The Art of Game Design: A Book of LensesBon je sors ma plume la plus affutée car il s'est passé en 2008 un évènement qui intéressera tous les Game Designers, ou ceux qui voudraient le devenir, ou encore ceux qui croient ne pas l'être mais le sont quand même, etc..."The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses", par Jesse Schell, a été publié en 2008 (chez Elsevier/Morgan Kaufman), et c'est vraiment un excellent livre, si ce n'est le Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-80088954472783084652008-11-13T04:11:00.000-08:002008-11-13T05:17:21.142-08:00script code testJe viens d'installer le bidule qui permet de mettre du code actionscript dans une page HTML.Alors voici une ptite fonction:function superDestroy(p:Object){ var t:Array = ["stop", "close", "dispose", "destroy"]; var total:int = t.length; for (var i:int = 0; i < total; i++) { if (p.hasOwnProperty(t[i])) p[t[i]](); }}Je suis pas trop fan des "private-jokes-de-flasheur", mais c'en est une.Plus Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-59022050713719017282008-08-05T06:10:00.000-07:002008-11-13T05:12:02.219-08:00disk-mapping on a sphere in flashMapping disks on a sphere? Click on the buttons in lower-left to see some creations of mine .You can also test yourself by typing a bracketted list of polar coordinates, cone angle, and color, then press the button in lower-right.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-81440215111134586622008-07-07T04:08:00.000-07:002009-07-27T10:47:28.446-07:00AS3 might become usable in multi-SWF projectsThx to the vigilance of Grant Skinner, and to the tedious tests/debugging of probably many other developpers, the problem of "unloading SWF cleanly" is on the track of some sort of improvement.Relevant links in historical order:AS3 ressource management part1AS3 ressource management part2AS3 ressource management part3Failure to Unload: Flash player 9's dirty secretUnloadAndStop in Flash Player Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-14151275629373759002008-06-26T03:21:00.001-07:002009-03-30T10:39:48.357-07:00Flash dancer, 10 years ago ;-)Thanks to my Mom', (who had recorded it on VHS tape), and to neighbour colleague Fred Flosi (who digitalized it), an old archive is now visible on the internet:
The URL displayed in the video is probably no longer active. Now the dancer is visible on Globz website.
The VO basically says that it's one the first "interactive comics character on the internet", which may be an overstatement . ButUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-15769572261874274952008-06-26T03:02:00.000-07:002010-02-24T05:26:27.998-08:00BTW, I switch to englishLast year was spent to post anecdotic messages, mostly in french, and with the hidden purpose () of getting more familiar with the "blog" stuff . Although I'm more capable of humour in my native language (french), I don't want to maintain 2 languages versions of my posts. It was hard to choose between "be subtle" or "be understandable by 1000 times more people" (syntaxically at least) !
Then, I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-83513402354033814112008-06-26T02:39:00.001-07:002009-07-27T10:47:59.952-07:00GOSWF: a SGF viewer for go/baduk/weiqi gamesI've released GoSWF, a flash viewer for Go game.GOSWF is freeware, and designed to be used on forum, websites.The colors can be changed to match the hosting website color style.Currently, GOSWF is used on goigo.org forum (games are visible only for registered users), and british go association.I'm working on a stand-alone version (PC), for fast and easy SGF viewing (SGF is the standard format forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272960549867699733.post-65286876331022249722008-03-23T05:54:00.000-07:002008-06-05T07:15:33.924-07:00La vie des blobsHo ho, j'ai retrouvé un vieux CD d'archive (1994).Mon sujet de DEA était l'utilisation de particules 3D en interaction..Souvenirs, souvenirs Plutôt long (3 min), idéal pour un économiseur d'écran .Bonus: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1