RedBjarne's Blog

Back-slash on a danish mac keyboard in windows7 (bootcamp)

Jacob Andersen — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:14:04 +0000

Apple, in their minimalistic world, optimized the back-slash ‘\’ away on their keyboards (along with delete and other ‘useless’ keys), so using their keyboords for anything else than writing blogs is a pain when you don’t know where the ‘other’ signs are hidden.

\ (backslash) = alt + “<>” key

| (pipe) = ctrl + alt + “´`” key

This is only for danish keyboards.

I guess this is one of those cases where apple’s designers have forgotten that functionality comes before design. Same thing with the ‘one-mouse-button’ blunder, last time I checked, humans still had 5 fingers on each hand.

Spark Line-drawing speed issues

Jacob Andersen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:09:00 +0000

I, after way too many hours of going through my code, finall found out why the linedrawing part of my latest flex 4 project ran really slow.

Spark (and probably all other versions of the linedrawing routine in Flash) runs really slow if the end points end up ‘inbetween’ pixels. Convert the start and end positions to int before drawing and you’ll see a massive speed increase.

ActionScript 3.0 Components

Jacob Andersen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:32:49 +0000

I’ve written a piece on the dreaded Components in ActionScript 3.0

Created a page for simple tips & tricks for XSI

Jacob Andersen — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:22:22 +0000

I made this page mainly for my own reference but if anyone have any additions/corrections feel free to inform me.

Local Rotation in ICE

Jacob Andersen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:24:07 +0000

Here’s the ICE tree of locally rotated particles.

Using ICE to create a fence on a landscape

Jacob Andersen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:16:04 +0000

I used XSI’s ICE to place the fence on the landscape.

I need to go to sleep now. I’ll write how the ICE-tree is constructed later.