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Comment on SimpleDiagrams – An ObjectHandles usage by Marc

Marc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:14:14 +0000

Take a look at http://object-handles-examples.appspot.com/ for some help on exactly that sort of stuff.

Comment on Just say no to dell by Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:46:33 +0000

The word on the street is Dell had a facility near Charlotte North Carolina that serviced a number of locations. This facility was just closed down and a facility opened in Mexico to handle the work.

Apparently there are some kinks and orders just aren’t getting out fast enough.

Having numerous delays and waiting a month for a computer is a little ridiculous. Get an HP or something, they tend to actually fulfill their orders on time

Comment on SimpleDiagrams – An ObjectHandles usage by Marc

Marc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:37:53 +0000

Hi Martijn,

I’m not sure if those tutorials exist. I’m working on a set of examples for OBjectHandles that would get you part of the way there, but that wont be ready for a bit still.

Comment on SimpleDiagrams – An ObjectHandles usage by Martijn Willemse

Martijn Willemse — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:21:59 +0000

This tool really looks great!
I’ve been struggling with Objecthandles for a while now and I really think it’s a great framework to work with!
However, only scaling and things like that aren’t enough for me. Eventuelly I need to make an application like the one you show in this post. I’ve literally looked for hours just to find tutorials or courses that can help me with making applications like the one shown here, but without result.
Could you please help me by telling where I can find these kind of tutorials or courses?

Many, many thanks in advance!

PS. excuse me for possible solecism, I’m Dutch

Comment on Why educational software by Marc

Marc — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:50:32 +0000

Yes, there will be an online demo, but we’re not finishing that until after the product. Maybe by the end of January or mid February.

Comment on Why educational software by Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:35:29 +0000

Any chance we can get a demo of Fraction Nation without sitting with a sales person? I am just interested in seeing this.

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:54:57 +0000

“Jeff, yeah that’s been one problem I haven’t gotten around to solving yet.

The simplest way would be to create a custom handle that scales itself by 1/(parents scaling).”

Marc,

Doing this worked in that I can get the handles to scale up to the size I need. The problem was that the spacing of the handles was still off. I tried fixing this by changing the perc, offset params on the handle points. I was getting a headache so I dropped it.

What I am doing instead is that in the parent container I have created a new child that will act as the new container to all of my handles. This container has the same dimensions as the parent. The only difference is that I am doing all of the scaling in this new child. This way I don’t have to change anything in object handles. Another key thing is that my ObjectHandles DataModel is aware of the scale factor and is able to map between scales on the gets/sets of the x,y, width, height.

Jeff

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by Janvarev Vlad

Janvarev Vlad — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:31:05 +0000

Thanks a lot, Marc. You have improved my piece of code a lot, and it’s really work smoothly (with rotation and external multiple handlers) now. Waiting for next releases

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by Marc

Marc — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:33:50 +0000

Jeff, yeah that’s been one problem I haven’t gotten around to solving yet.

The simplest way would be to create a custom handle that scales itself by 1/(parents scaling).

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:32:36 +0000

Works great so far. One problem I am working on is when the parent of the transform is scaled, for instance via a matrix, the objecthandles are scaled as well. In my situation, this is not what i want. It would be nice if the handles exposed a mechanism that allowed me to scale up or down the handles.

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by Marc

Marc — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:26:07 +0000

James, try “Example 1″… it has multi select and you can deselect by clicking the background.

That was a bug introduced by compiling under Flex 4 SDK instead of Flex 3, apparently I didn’t fix it in all the examples.

ArneO,

Try this: http://rogue-development.com/uploads/ohv2/srcview/index.html
Looks like the relative link from the blog post screwed up view-source.

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by ArneO

ArneO — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:00:41 +0000

Thanks! This would help, but viewsource is not working. I am curious for the implementation.

Kind regards
_____
Arne

Comment on ObjectHandles – Multiple Selection and Decorators by James

James — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:56:22 +0000

Thanks Marc, however, if I multi-select two or more object, I was not able to deselect them, could you fix that too?

Comment on ObjectHandles Version 2, first release by Marc

Marc — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:06:23 +0000

Hi Jason,

It was this post:
http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/2009/05/objecthandles-v2-sneak-peek/

But looking back upon it now, I realized the view-source option wasn’t enabled in the mocassin demo. I’ll have to look around to see if I can find that when I get home from work.

Comment on ObjectHandles Version 2, first release by Jason

Jason — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:32:39 +0000

I’m currently using Moccasin in my project but would like to incorporate all of your great features. I seem to remember a blog posting by you with a demo of the two working together. Do you have any example source available.

Your work is very much appreciated!