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July 16th, 2008

Flash AS3 Cork Board and a Fractured Wrist

To start with, yes, I am still in a 'hand prison' - although this one's new and a different color. The lime-green cast was fun, and great for directing traffic, but it looks like this is going to be something I'll be living with for some time yet so, for this second cast, I decided to go with a color that's a little easier to coordinate with the wardrobe - black (and yes, I know that black is 'technically' not a color).

With black, I don't have to worry so much about keeping it clean (which could be a good thing or a bad thing) and I think it looks just a bit more 'manly' (Hey, considering that the injury was caused by slipping on a hard wood floor while dancing in my sock feet, I could probably use a little help in this department).

The folks at the Royal Jubilee Hospital took some more x-rays of my wrist and an orthopedic surgeon determined that they'd need a CAT scan in order to "figure out exactly what's going on in there". I'm still waiting to have that scan. Hopefully, if all goes well, my Scaphoid (the bone that is fractured) will not require surgery and I can be done with this. Until this is dealt with, certain parts of my life are on hold. Ah well, I didn't really want to go swimming this summer anyway... or ride my bike... or write legibly... Can I get some sympathy here?

Anyway, here's another project I was working on in Flash using AS3. You can find it here or just click on the image below.

The 'cork board' saves state by sending the data to a MySQL table via a simple PHP script. Another PHP script grabs the data from the table and converts it into XML which is then brought into Flash.

You can leave a message on the 'cork board' to see how it works.