Imagine yourself, in a midst of a battle scene where, you are about to use the shift key to dash and stuff. All the sudden, you accidentaly tap the SHIFT couple of times and poof your are out of the game screen. What a bummer. That my friend is the annoying StickyKeys it is designed to assist user in input however, not that useful in gaming – duh.Â
Ok, here what you need to do.
During one of my flash game development project, I soon found out that I need to use some kind shape based hit test. Yes, basically – in older days of hittest, this can be accomplish with either an insane amount of mini invisible movieclip stacked around the shape of the object, or they do it using some mathematically formula. This is because, the function hitTest doesn’t work exactly like the shape of the movieclip but, takes the entire movieclip as whole.
Well, this tutorial isn’t about the two method above but, a way simpler method to do collision detection based on shape.
Take a good look at the sample flash below in action.
Over the weekends, I was trying to learn the ways on how to work faster without typing much codes and minimizing errors. The solution is learning to use Aptana’s Snippet View. Firstly, before we start – I would like to suggest rearranging your IDE into more simpler view.
I like to close unwanted views and combine three of my mostly used View into ones dock to the left side of the IDE namely, File, Project and Snippets.
Let’s move on, we will then need to create our own set of snippets – be it JS script, XML, HTML, CSS or whatever you are programming with this IDE.
Computer errors may occur on Windows computers due to many different reasons. For example, error 0x80072ee2 occurs when your system faces problems while performing Windows update and spoolsv.exe error occurs due to problems encountered during printing. At times, problems such as svchost.exe Vista process showing high CPU may not generate an error message, but will still affect you by dramatically slowing down the system.
All these errors and problems occur due to different reasons and prevent you from working normally. This is the reason why it is essential that you take the proper measures to perform preventive PC maintenance and fix several computer errors.
Update your Software
Many Windows errors occur if your operating system and other software is not updated. Many security threats are built around vulnerabilities in various software products that may be installed on your computer. So, if you fail to update your software, you open up your PC to these threats. What’s more, you may miss out on many enhancements that manufacturers may include in these updates to improve the performance of their product. Therefore, make it a practice to update your software on a regular basis.
Detect and Remove Malware
If you are suddenly bombarded with errors, it may indicate a virus infection. In this case, it is recommended that you update your antivirus tool and then perform a thorough full system scan to detect and remove the infection. If an error message is displayed, you may search for a solution on the Internet. If you are lucky, you may be able to locate a tool to help you remove the specific virus with which your computer is infected.
If your desktop is bombarded with unwanted pop up ads, you Internet Explorer pages are hijacked, and your system suddenly deteriorates in performance, it may indicate a spyware infection. To remove a spyware, you need an antispyware tool. Update the tool and perform a full system scan to get rid of all spyware.
Clean your Registry
The Windows registry is a centralized, hierarchal database in which all system configuration and system settings related information is stored. So, whenever you work on your computer the registry is continually referred and updated. Because it is constantly working, the registry becomes quite prone to several problems pertaining to outdated, redundant, invalid, and malicious entries that may accumulate in it overtime. This unwanted data, causes the registry to grow to a very large size and become unstable. A large, unstable registry database can easily get damaged and generate errors. To prevent this problem, you must regularly scan and clean your registry. To do this, you may use a good, third-party registry cleaner tool. In addition to cleaning your registry, a good registry tool will also help you:
Yeah, a biggy and vague topic. Those of you who wondered into my site probably read a lot of forums and technical blogs each stating their own style of installing Microsoft Windows Vista.
About a few months ago, I was trying to upgrade my Pentium 4 to Windows Vista SP1, but encounter tonnes of blue screen problem to system hangs on boot up. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!
Then, I reformatted and stopped the SP1 from auto updating until I resolved this issue. Later, this month – I decided to get a new set with better hardware and hopefully having less trouble in installing to Vista. Prior to that I’ve done some research here and there.
I listed out some of the important pointers one should take before considering about installing Vista on your test machine.
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