Danny Miller

Here’s a random walk program. I always wondered what the screen would look like if i had a dot move in a random direction. Click to refresh. View and fork this on WonderFl or Download the flash file here.

The Internet has provided a new means of data expression. I decided to play with the idea of machine aesthetics by developing an application that creates images of images.

I first saw this effect a long time ago on a poster advertisement for the Truman show. I always wondered how they made the effect of compiling images together to form, when looked at a certain distance, an image. The program I made this week creates the effect by downloading Flickr images.

Probably one of the worst and most frustrating bugs. Turns out computeSpectrum will NOT work if ANOTHER Flash is using audio. Meaning if you have a Flash that using SoundMixer.computeSpectrum one of those super annoying security sandbox runtime errors will pop up on the browser if YouTube, GMail, or any other Flash using audio is [...]

Can someone explain why Adobe put in the feature: and not something like On a game project I’m working on, the game uses key combinations such as CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y for certain features. Unfortunately, combo keys using CTRL key don’t work in Internet Explorer (but they do work in other browsers). What I want to [...]

A major reason why some users of my EventManager class may see more memory leaks being shown than actual memory leaks is because EventManager stores all the listeners in a dictionary. If we remove a display object then technically (if weakReference is set to true) the listeners are removed for the DisplayObject and its children. Until today, [...]

Hate keeping track of event listeners? Wish you had removeAllListeners()?  Wish you had removeAllListeners(EventDispatcherWithABunchOfListeners)? Wish you could remove all listeners that targetted a specific function? A while ago I posted a class I wrote to handle actionscript 3 listeners. I updated EventManager.as today to by default set weakReference to true and to always add the listener [...]