Was checking out the new WordPress Foundation site and saw in the sidebar it said their header image was generated with Wordle. Curious, I checked it out and found Wordle is a Java Applet that creates a graphic word matrix based on the number of recurring words in any RSS feed. There are a bunch of fonts and layout algorythms you can choose from and you can create custom color palette as well. Here is one I generated from underblob.com’s RSS:
Pretty cool!
Trying to load a directory of hundreds of images into separate movie clips using the AS3 Loader class. By assigning an Event.COMPLETE listener to the Loader, the callback function only has a reference to the Loader and not to the image that’s being loaded or the parent that it’s being loaded into. So if I need to Tween on this image after the load is completed, no dice. Instead, assign an Event.ENTER_FRAME to the parent MovieClip and dig a byte comparison out of the contentLoaderInfo object…
for each ( var imgPath in imgXML.elements () ) {
var imgLoader:Loader = new Loader ();
imgClip.addChild ( imgLoader );
imgClip.addEventListener ( Event.ENTER_FRAME, imgLoading );
imgLoader.load ( new URLRequest ( imgPath ) );
}
…
function imgLoading ( e:Event ):void {
var bL:Number = e.target.getChildAt ( 0 ).contentLoaderInfo.bytesLoaded;
var bT:Number = e.target.getChildAt ( 0 ).contentLoaderInfo.bytesTotal;
if ( bT == bL ) {
e.target.removeEventListener ( Event.ENTER_FRAME, imgLoading );
e.target.parent.Tweener // etc.
}
}
Google is assisting in the finding and retrieving of lost persons in Haiti via this web application:
http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/
I make a form in a Custom Template in my WordPress Theme. I submit the form to a PHP script in the theme directory via bloginfo ( ‘template_directory’ ). I want to be able to generate an email and have it sent to the admin email address that’s set in the WP installation. How can I access the Template Tags in the stand-alone submission script? By pure dumb luck I found the right two lines of code to paste into my script:
require_once ( $_SERVER[ 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' ] . '/wp-load.php' ); wp ();
Now I created a reusable script that I can drop into any WordPress Theme by inserting the Site Name via get_bloginfo ( ‘name’ ) into the subject and sending the email to the Site Admin via get_bloginfo ( ‘admin_email’ ).
Formatting for the GreenSock TweenLite animation AS3 Class:
TweenLite.to ( mc:MovieClip, duration:Number,
{
alpha:0,
x:120,
ease:Quint.easeInOut,
delay:2,
onComplete:callbackFunction,
onCompleteParams:[ 5, mc ]
}
);