Please have a go and let me know if it works ok on Snow Leopard, and also older OSes, if there’s problems, comment here, and I’ll try and rectify any issues.

You can download it here.

There’s now two examples in the zip, one for use with SWFObject 1.5, and a totally re-written version for use with SWFObject 2.0 (formerly SWFFix)

All you have to do in your main application class (or document class) is
[as]
import com.pixelbreaker.ui.osx.MacMouseWheel;

MacMouseWheel.setup( stage );
[/as]

You can then add listeners to TextFields, Sprites etc etc as you normally would any other MouseEvent.

Example JavaScript to be used with the dynamic embed method
[js]
var vars = {};
var params = { scale:’noScale’, salign:’lt’, menu:’false’ };
var attributes = { id:’testObject’, name:’testObject’ }; // give an id to the flash object

swfobject.embedSWF(“test_as3.swf”, “flashContent”, “100%”, “100%”, “9.0.0″, “js/expressInstall.swf”, vars, params, attributes );
swfmacmousewheel.registerObject(attributes.id);
[/js]

I have updated the SWFObject 2.0 version to be more compact, and it also falls inline with the code style of SWFObject2.0. see swfmacmousewheel_src.js for the uncompressed version, deploy swfmacmousewheel2.js on your site.

Download source and demo here or view the demo online

A lot of people had been asking for this as a widget. So i’ve put together this version for the OS X Dashboard. The options are limited to language selection only.

Download:
[zip] PolarClock OSX Widget 356Kb

I had no idea how widgets were built until this morning, and to my pleasant surprise, they are basically Safari (WebKit) running on a transparent background. A good place to start is on the apple site.

The PolarClock widget is basically a blend on HTML, JavaScript and Flash, embedded using SWFObject. The one major issue was that I couldn’t get Flash movies to display in my widget. All you have to do is add an extra flag in the info.plist file named “AllowInternetPlugins” and set it to true.

[xml]
AllowInternetPlugins

It’s all done!

Re-worked from the ground up in ActionScript 3, this release should be much less CPU intensive, and has had heaps of new features added. Read all about it at it’s new permanent home.

PolarClock Home

I’ve ported 90% of the engine to actionscript 3.0 now, and begun implementation of a config panel built using Flex Builder 3 (Moxie). I’ve now got the following language implemented: English, Afrikaans, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portugese, Portugese (Brazil), Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Slovakian, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

I have spoken to a guy at ScreenTime (who make screentime for flash) and they are sending me an updated version for windows in a couple of days, to match up the sizes of the config panels with the latest release for mac. Yeah, I bought screentime for mac + windows!!!

I’m hoping to launch version 3 of the clock on of before 21/07/07. Keep checking for updates!

So far there have been over 40,000 downloads of v1 and 2, it’s much much more popular than I ever expected!

I’ve tried every way I could think of to get eclipse to stop anti-aliasing the editor font since I started using it over a year ago. I used to use ProggyTiny in my previous editors, as it’s a compact and easy to read font for coding.

I worked out today that ProggyFonts has a version of some of it’s fonts (the best ones) available in apple’s dfont format, which do not get antialiased by Eclipse. Just click on the file icon with the apple in it next to each font where available.

There’s a few little niggles with using these fonts, in your FDT or Eclipse settings, make sure you don’t set any syntax types to display in bold or italic, as the font doesn’t display.

Today I found ProFont, which is perfect in Eclipse if you set OS X to alias fonts <=10pt.

I’ve also found Anonymous, which is great if you don’t want to turn of anti-aliasing at smaller sizes, it looks great at 11pt.

Anyone else know a good font for OS X coders?

ServiceCapture for Windows and OS X.

It’s straight forward to implement. Download SWFMacMouseWheel here.

Within ActionScript, you’ll barely notice any difference. Only that instead of using Mouse.addListener(), you’ll refer to my class instead.

Example code:

[as]
import com.pixelbreaker.ui.MouseWheel;

class Example
{

function Example(){
MouseWheel.addListener( this );
}

public function onMouseWheel( delta:Number ):Void
{
// do something with the delta value
}
}

[/as]

All the javascript is included in the zip, with an example html file.

You simply have to add one line of code to the javascript:

[js]
var so = new SWFObject(‘test.swf’, ‘website’, ’100%’, ’100%’, ’8′, ‘#FFFFFF’);

so.useExpressInstall(‘js/expressinstall.swf’);

so.addParam(‘menu’, ‘false’);
so.addParam(‘scale’, ‘noscale’);
so.addParam(‘salign’, ‘lt’);

// CHANGE BELOW
if( so.write(‘flashcontent’) )
{
var macmousewheel = new SWFMacMouseWheel( so );
}
[/js]