Flash-CORE

I got back recently to one of my older research AS project that i did a while ago based on Box2D flash port Box2DAS3 lib 1.4 but since there is already version 2.1 of that library out i decided to discard it and create it from scratch using Flex. Its simple application with some potential, it automatically assigns physics attributes to any object you draw and binds it to the simulation world. Thats why the simple title, PhysIT!

The main problem in this application was to create the polygons from the drawn line, you cant simply store the mouse positions into an array and create polygon accordingly. Doing it this way may encounter 2 major problems.

First the array will be large and the polygon precision unnecessary complex. I resolved this using an algorithm that goes over all points and merge 2 adjancent points that are too close to each other. This algorithm is recursive since going over all again once is sometimes not enough ;)

Second and greater problem is that you can draw non-convex (concave) object which the physics engine simply cant process. I solved it first time by figuring out a fast triangulation algorithm (those that already made tristrips in OGL will know), but this time i decided on a different algorithm that simply takes non-convex object and breaks it into two or more convex objects as we know from geometry this is possible after all in worst scenario you can end up with triangles.

Ok, if you are interested in anything i mentioned just ask in forums, its way too complex to post algorithms here. Thank you.

Latest version: DEMO TEMPORARILY REMOVED

Forum Link: PhysIT forum topic

Be aware that you need to draw the objects CW becouse doing it CCW will result in possible bugs.

This is alpha version just for fun there may and will be errors ;)

So this is my first AIR project again one of those “is it possible”. I was trying to find a downloader for quite a time that would have an option to download and search for files on a webpage to a specified depth, this is quite common for downloaders but what i wanted more is the option to specify the search parameters for each depth level. For example you have a web that has a list of galleries and inside these galleries are images. So instead of using bruteforce downloader that would go over all links and download all images i wanted to specify that the downloader should look for only gallery links and then in the galleries only for certain images, tadaa. Unfortunately i wasnt able to find such a downloader (maybe console wget i am not sure). So i started to make one, in the past i would make it in C++ no question but now when we have AIR here i said to myself why not.

Here is a link to alpha version if you are interested: Regular Downloader binaries

Forum link: Regular Downloader forum topic

There is no help and the UI isn’t exactly intuitive to begin with so if you are curious just ask how to use it, but i think everyone will manage ;) Also if you have any questions about the implementation feel free to ask in the forum.

Enjoy ;)

This is an IRC project that i started simply because i wanted to try making an IRC client using Flex, one of those “is it possible?” projects

I am planning to make an AIR version too, since the Adobe’s cross-domain policy is a real pain, making security implicitly is simply not a good idea and one of the Adobe’s wrong moves. Most of the admins that run IRC server and i talked to had no problem with my client connecting there but also had no time to set up some crazy socket policy daemons, so i ended up using socket proxies or other rather ugly solutions for quite a time. Finally i was able to find an IRC server where admin was a great guy and even set a shell account for me so i could put up my own perl scripts for setting the cross-domain straight. Why Adobe oh why… its pain, security should be defined explicitly not implicitly.

Latest version: CoreIRC page

Forum link: CoreIRC forum topic

Once i have a major version stable i will probably release source code as well, till then when you have a question about the implementation just ask