i just wanted to comment that i have been f***book free for over six months now! i feel better. life is good. i am never going back there.
yay!!!
i have however, started sipping into re***t. curiosity is a dangerous motivator.
hello hello
in the interest of motivation, i wanted to write down my current thoughts on VizAlign and its progress. i am heading towards a 0.7 release. first i’ll talk about the 0.7 features coming up, then talk about the future, and i’ll finish with some banter.
lets see what 0.7 will contain:
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i know i said i was working on CameraDetection, but i have been getting some sass from friends and co-workers about never releasing VizAlign. so here it is. VizAlign 0.6
align your graphics the way you see it.
VizAlign is a powerful, extendable, actionscript 3 alignment utility that allows you to vizually align DisplayObject. it is a new way of thinking about aligning, and will forever change your alignment habits. when you position something, you expect it to end up where you envision it; VizAlign helps you do that. the core is so extendable i never run out of new feature ideas.
features:
- natural api: i want to align these [targets] to the [left of the stage].
- 40 alignments (and more coming!)
- extend – able framework
- returns results for animation or storage
- group – ing!
show me!
today, i was working on a problem that involved TextField, and more specifically, using values from the last line of text. i was trying to get the TextLineMetric of the the last line to do some calculations. this was all fine and dandy until I coupled this new utility with another that modifies the htmlText property of the TextField i was working with. here is what i learned:
changing the value of htmlText on a TextField always creates one extra empty line of text.
i found no indication as to why, and i could see by doing plenty of traces that the htmlText did not indicate to create any new line of text.
so here is the fix:
textField.replaceText(textField.text.length - 1, textField.text.length, "");
apparently that grabs our magic extra line and gets rid of it. great.
i may update this post to include some of the test that i did which proved that changing htmlText always results in this extra line, but another time.
viruses
a frustrated ktu i have been for the last two weeks.
i got a virus on my laptop. a sneaky little guy which i am pretty sure ended up being an infected driver. in spending time trying different sources to remove it i may have finally done so, but have yet to plug the drive back into my laptop to verify this.
this prompted me to yet again think about getting a new computer. my current laptop has been degrading gracefully but it is now to the point where i just cannot take it anymore. from overheating issues to hardware buttons not working and having no battery, it is not a pleasant machine to deal with. i am moments away from finalizing my setup.
but this has caused massive delays on my projects. two weeks of frustration and anxiety about the money i will be spending have left me doing no work whatsoever.
linux
this brings me to the second part of the post. while trying to fix my drive, i plugged in an old 40gb drive that had ubuntu on it. i feel like sharing my experience with linux so far.
as a long time windoze user who has always wanted to switch to linux, my first impression is disappointing. i have never had so many difficulties. alt+tab is super slow, the unity dock is poorly designed, i cannot seem to get mail setup, and using two monitors was very difficult. i know i need more time with a new environment and i am certainly not giving up on linux. in fact the appeal of being able to fix the crap i do not like is certainly going to drive my understanding of computers, logic, and development.
so, adding another project to the list (learning linux) will definitely distract me from my other projects, but i am the kind of person that needs to flip back and forth to maintain interest and motivation.
i truly hope to be back on track very soon as i have a lot of goals i want to meet.
