Comments on: Playing With APEs

By: Digital Nancy

Digital Nancy — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:21:47 +0000

Hello, nice article and blog, but you should check some articles for some spam. Just a hint or use Akismet or alike. I’m running it on my blog and it’s really cool! Tschau

By: Simulating Physics

Simulating Physics — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:17:33 +0000

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By: Soulwire

Soulwire — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:45:19 +0000

Hi Andy,

APE_UI and StartTxt are MovieClips in the library of the FLA which is included in the download. Make sure you’re compiling from the Flash IDE if you want to use the demo as is. The FlashDevelop project file included is a Flash IDE project, so compile via Flash rather than using the Flex SDK – perhaps that’s why you can’t access the MCs in the library?

By: Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:33:36 +0000

I got errors – couldn’t find APE_UI and StartTxt. I got the APE demos – CarDemo and RobotDemo to work though. Where are APE_UI and StartTxt?

By: Matt Howarth

Matt Howarth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:38:33 +0000

How easily could you control the platforms to combine keyboard control with physics? If you wanted them to act as pinball flippers for example?

Great tute BTW

Matt

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Tuorials | AS3 and Physics « Flash Enabled Blog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:57:24 +0000

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By: Soulwire

Soulwire — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:30:34 +0000

3pepe3, good to hear from you man.

Yeah, I’ve played with SEPY but not since I started with AS3 (i.e. when I left the Flash IDE altogether), it’s a great tool though. I think many of it’s features it shares with Flashdevelop, really useful things like custom method auto completion, snippets and automatic imports. Also, I love being able to comment my methods and have that comment show up as I implement them from other classes! I guess it’s personal preference though. I like the layout and clean interface of Flashdevelop, but I know SEPY is top notch too!

R.e. using bitwise shift (n>>0) instead of casting to int, thanks for the tip! I always run thorough speed tests when it comes to implementing things like bitmapdata, but forget the smaller things! I remember reading that int is the fastest numeric datatype, followed by number, then uint. Cheers for the optimisation tip though, and good luck with APE!

By: 3pepe3

3pepe3 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:29:06 +0000

Hello.

This is really cool, a few months ago i discovered the APE engine and almost immediately i closed the page because i didn’t understand anything about it… I just said that was a nice package.
Today i understand a lot of more things in AS and with your example and some little more research I’m sure that i will be able to manage this and upgrade my site (that was my first work and introduction with flash).

By the way you i use the SE|PY actionscript editor and I’m very happy with it… but is there any cool feature on FlashDevelop editor?

By the way…. in your random function i found that it’s faster to return n>>0 instead of return int(n).
num>>0 is like the Math.floor() but faster.