Author Archives: Johannes Luderschmidt

Create New Project from Git Source in Flash Builder

Nowadays, more and more open source projects are hosted on Github – amongst others some great Actionscript-based projects. Actually, Git makes it simple to clone and import a working project to which you can actually commit changes (at least to your cloned, local repository). However, I found it quite complicated to get from the git …

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»Information Distribution Aspects of Design Methodology« from Parnas, ’72

I love reading ‘old’ papers. »Information Distribution Aspects of Design Methodology« was published by Parnas in 1972 and is a classic in software engineering literature. It is actually the standard reference when referring to an »API«. However, it is full of sarcasm and in parts fun to read:

Donald Norman’s »Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural«

I really like Donald Norman’s essay »Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural« that he wrote for the ACM interactions magazine. In this essay Norman shares his view on the role of natural user interfaces (for him represented, e.g., by »speech, gesture, or the tapping of the body’s electrical signals for “thought control,”«) in terms of …

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Recognize DisplayObject Transform Matrix Change Event in Flash AS3

If another object changes the transformation matrix of a DisplayObject, the DisplayObject has no means to recognize that it has been transformed, as it is transformed automatically. E.g., there is no kind of TRANSFORMATION_MATRIX_CHANGED event that is dispatched on the DisplayObject. If your DisplayObject still should react on a change of its transformation matrix, a …

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ThrongOSCDeck – an OSC & TUIO Recorder and Player [Update]

I have been looking for an application on the Internet that allows to record TUIO streams. However, I did not find a sufficient solution for this problem. Thus, I decided to write my own application called ThrongOSCDeck that can accomplish this task. It builds upon my Throng application that can be used to multiplex TUIO …

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