February 2008 Archives

Feb 25, 2008

Tweening Silverlight with JSTweener

Posted by Dennis in Uncategorized 5 comments

I do most of my ActionScript tweening with the easy-to-use Tweener class. Tweener has been ported to JavaScript so that means it can be used with Silverlight 1.0. This port is called JSTweener and its syntax is identical with Tweener for ActionScript.
The most basic tweening example looks like this:

JSTweener.addTween( myObject, { x: 30, y: 30, [...]


Feb 20, 2008

3D Silverlight 1.0: Simple Collada parser

Posted by Dennis in 3D 5 comments

A while ago I made a very simple Collada parser that was written in JavaScript and drew on a HTML 5 <canvas>.
Silverlight 1.0 also makes use of JavaScript so converting it seemed like a good excercise. You can see it here. Fortunately I didn’t have to change much. Only the way in which the lines [...]


Feb 19, 2008

Programmatic drawing with Silverlight

Posted by Dennis in Uncategorized No comments

I’ve finally set myself to doing something with Microsoft’s Silverlight. After reading some of the basic stuff I have to say it looks promising. I can’t wait for C# support though, JavaScript is making my life miserable again :P.

I’ve taken a code sample (written in BASIC) from and old book and converted it to JavaScript. [...]