Comments on: New Object Handles release

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:55:20 +0000

@Joe I’ve been working on it when I get a chance. A more recent blog post about it can be found here:
http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/2009/05/objecthandles-v2-sneak-peek/

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:46:40 +0000

Great Stuff!

Is there an ETA on publishing V2.0?

Many Thanks,

Joe

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:50:25 +0000

Multi-selection would rock. Feel free to post a message to the discussion group about it, hopefully someone would pick it up.

http://groups.google.com/group/objecthandles

The rotate functionality is very basic. I don’t actually use it anywhere, so that functionality is very raw. Someday I’ll get around to actually fixing it up.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:37:21 +0000

Also,

Does the rotate with resize take into account the different pixel per inch value on the x and y axis??? A co-worker of mine is rotating an object and trying to ensure that a line that is an inch on screen in the horizontal direction is an inch in the vertical direction and all angles in between. Thanks,

Aaron

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:26:41 +0000

Marc,

I’m not sure what version I’m still using, but I’ve provided support for multi-selection. It’s not production ready, but if anyone is interested, please email me and we can discuss the best way to do it.

Aaron

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:02:27 +0000

Yes, we’ll definitely be supporting it again. I’m just not sure exactly when it’ll get done. I’ve had one person volunteer to fix it, but that’s a few days past-due so I’ll need to check in with him. Otherwise I’ll have to fix it eventually.

By: Tom Van den Eynde

Tom Van den Eynde — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:58 +0000

Marc,

Any chance of supporting the rotation again? Because in that case I’d definitely consider replacing my own “object handles” with yours.

Thanx,
Tom

By: slaingod

slaingod — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:51:04 +0000

Is there a way to use ObjectHandles externally for objects not children of the container? I tried just setting bind variables, but rotation just cause the external image to spin in a circle rather than rotate. Basically, my issue is that I need 2 sets of handles, one for cropping and the other for resizing (cropping occurs by using layer and erase blendmodes for a canvas on top of the image). But it is really tricky to set up, or if you want to have the image continuously clipped. I can’t say I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the issue with the bind variables, but was wondering if you had any ideas. Thanks.

By: Arul

Arul — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:27:29 +0000

Thanks a ton! I set the following and it did the trick…

zoneButton.percentWidth = parent.width;
zoneButton.percentHeight = parent.height;

I also noticed that the min width and height of the button depends on the button label text. Is there a way around this pls?

Thanks again!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:48:30 +0000

Arul,

Set the percentWidth and percentHeight properties on the button or you could use the top/bottom/left/right styles.

By: Arul

Arul — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:46:11 +0000

Marc!

Awesome work with ObjectHandles…! Have a couple of points though (you could’ve answered a similar question from someone else earlier)

I have a button added to ObjectHandles and its just fine as long as its inside an mxml. When the OH and Button components are added in actionscript, the buttons are no longer resizable. They only move alongwith their objecthandles. Any help is much appreciated…

- Arul

By: Maxim Porges

Maxim Porges — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:04:55 +0000

This stuff is awesome. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.

- max

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:01:20 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. It’s a feature I don’t use anywhere and I often forget to test it. I’ll take a look into it very soon, for now I’d suggest people who need rotation support to NOT upgrade!

By: Tom Van den Eynde

Tom Van den Eynde — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:17:16 +0000

Hi!

Great stuff but what happened to the rotation support?
In the example the handle to rotate is even gone.
For a lot of applications this is really essential…

Anyway – keep up the good work!

Tom