Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 01/24/07 11:21

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:21:51 +1100, "Jeckyl" <noone@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>> it on Bumbles code rendition which is why it failed. Bumbles claims
>> the part that's wrong with the current rendition of his (second)
>> botched attempt

>Yes .. it was botched .. but not by me, by hatter. Funny that.

I blame your presentation and explanation, if I were you I wouldn't
ever try writing a book on the subject, cause it'll just give more
grief than answers.

>He eventually managed to get it working though, and funnily enough it was
>faster.

Yeah by a WHOLE 2 seconds. You were claiming that it was going to be
like 200% faster or some bullshit. And I'm bettin if I switch to
using CASE statements instead of IF my method will either wind up
being just as fast or maybe even faster than your method.

>> :BitmapData.getPixels()

>I didn't see that method documented in the AS docs .. is it a native method,
>or an extension that someone has written?

It's native, apart of Flash9. I'm currently using it on the animated
bits of my sprite generator and it works awesomely. The problem is
most of the Flash9 stuff hasn't really been out long enough for there
to be a lot of examples and sample code forms.

I put together this lil tutorial on use of the BitmapData class (which
includes the getpixels function) for use in SwishMax:
http://forums.swishzone.com/index.php?showtopic=42700

It also outlines how to go about doing it in Adobe/Macromedia Flash.

If I can get it to work, I won't even NEED any of that getpixel code
redundancy shite.

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