Hey everyone,
In honour of my 3 years of being on this forum (as of the 22nd of this month) I am working on this project. What this project is, is sort of a reference to my first post on this forum…
Well my first post on this forum was also my first tutorial ever, and my first flash experiment ever. So it was a momentus occasion for me… despite that the result in the end sucked so bad… but hey, we gotta start somewhere!
Anywho. With this project, it will be my first time using AS 2.0, and really my first time using OOP. I really suck with OOP, that’s why I never use it. And this project is pretty much completely useless and pointless, but it was fun.
I know I know… now you are wondering… WHAT IS IT!?
Well, I built this custom clock class to dynamically generate a clock on the stage and have the user be able to format it however they want.
Here are the files:
Example File: http://www.lostinbeta.com/kirupa/ClockObject.html (the AS on the stage is the same AS used to generate the 2 clocks).
.as File: http://www.lostinbeta.com/kirupa/Clock.as
.fla File: http://www.lostinbeta.com/kirupa/ClockObject.fla
Documentation File: http://www.lostinbeta.com/kirupa/clockClassDocumentation.html
What I need from you guys (if you have the chance) is to help me bug test it, and possibly request features you would like. There are 2 that I cannot do right now.
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Use custom fonts. This is because the clock is dynamically generated, so the user would have to import the font to the library and such. While I have not worked with getting this to work yet, I plan on adding it down the line, but it may not happen before release on the 22nd.
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HTML formatted text: The text doesn’t display when it’s HTML formatted… I’m guessing this is due to the fact that the font is not embedded into the movie.
I’m open for other suggestions though. I can’t guarantee they will be added, but I may give it a try.
Also, if anyone has some optimization improvement ideas I’m all ears. Again, I can’t guarantee I will change the file to include those ideas, but I may try. And I am in desperate need of learning optimization techniques for OOP and AS2.0.
I’m hoping to release a bug free final file for the masses on the 22nd. I don’t want to be banging my head on a wall because I forgot something so simple and a member requests it.
Thanks everyone 
-Shane
