Recursive PNG to SWF JSFL script - enjoy!

So if you haven’t noticed yet, a swf with a transparent PNG file compiled on the stage at 0,0 is far smaller than a plain old transparent PNG. I don’t know exactly what Flash is doing to the PNG files, but the file sizes look a lot like JPEG compression sizes, so I suspect it’s compressing the PNGs down to JPEGs and adding the alpha layer…or something like that. This is extremely useful when you need

Posted at 4pm on 04/13/09 | 1 comment | Filed Under: jsfl, Tools read on

TODO://

So I tend to use prefixed comments on my own code to remind myself when I’m putting something off, or I’ve identified a problem but don’t have time to fix it. Stuff like //FIXME and //TODO are all over my code with instructions and sometimes even psuedo-code.The big problem for me is that I always forget where I left these comments. Today I finally took a second to skulk around for a cool eclipse plugin,

Posted at 1pm on 03/30/09 | 1 comment | Filed Under: AIR, Projects, Uncategorized read on

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My name is Jeff Yamada. I live in Long Beach, CA, and work in LA at Schematic as a Software Developer in the Multimedia Platforms Group, where my team works on some pretty fun projects using Flash, Flex and AIR  and whatever else we can get our hands on.

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