GetByIntuition()

Debug colourisation in flash develop

Dwayne Bull — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:59:20 +0000

You can colourise your output text in flash develop by prefixing your trace string with “n:”
By default:

0: is gray
1: is black
2: is orange
3: is red
4: is pink

Here is the result of the following:

for ( var debug: int = 0 ; debug < 20 ; debug++) {
     trace(debug+ ": debug " + debug);
}

Handy when you have a lot of traces and need to debug.

Water test

Dwayne Bull — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:06 +0000

Tests for a water simulation: (Not complete)
Based on bitmaps for terrain.

Click to add water.
Ctrl-Click to remove water.

Water type 1 This is not as accurate but looks cool
Water type 2 This is much softer but doesn’t look as nice.

Game update: Santa Skittles

Dwayne Bull — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:53:40 +0000

Game built: Santa Skittles

Image coming soon.

http://santaskittles.lv.com

Liquid test for upcoming game.

Dwayne Bull — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:57:53 +0000

Check it out, view the full post.

Handy Debug Tip

Dwayne Bull — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:47:54 +0000

Helpful when debugging:


trace("StackTrace:",new Error().getStackTrace());

Singleton pattern with static initializer

Dwayne Bull — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:08:26 +0000

I’m going to start posting code extracts
Maybe someone will find this helpful.

package
{
	/**
	 * ...
	 * @author Dwayne Bull
	 * @website http://www.dwaynebull.co.uk
	 * ...
	 */
	public final class SingletonExample
	{
		private namespace enforcer = "stop";
		enforcer static var accessable : Boolean = false;
		private static var instance : SingletonExample = null;

		{
			enforcer::accessable = true;
			instance = new SingletonExample();
			enforcer::accessable = false;
		}

		public static function getInstance():SingletonExample
		{
			return instance
		}

		public function SingletonExample()
		{
			if (!enforcer::accessable) throw new Error("SingletonExample() - Singleton, please use getInstance()");
		}

	}
}

Thanks also to gskinner for the idea.