WeirdLooking.com: Michael Barton's BlogCopyright 2006Michael Bartonpalrich@gmail.com2012-02-05T07:43:29ZWeirdLooking.comhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/images/feed.pnghttp://www.weirdlooking.com/actionscript still sucksMichael Bartonhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/actionscript-still-sucks2006-07-11T02:49:15Z2006-07-11T02:49:15Z<div style="float: right; margin: 2px; padding: 2px; border: solid 1px #555555;"><a href="//www.weirdlooking.com/blog/actionscript-still-sucks/barcode.jpg"><img src="//www.weirdlooking.com/blog/actionscript-still-sucks/barcode.jpg/200:*" alt="Click to enlargen" /></a></div>The last few days, I’ve been working on a Flash thingy that can grab barcodes from the webcam. This is another part of the project from my last post. It’s actually kind of fun getting my hands dirty with pixels again.<br /><br />If you’re wondering what that white space below the webcam image is, JOIN THE CLUB. I’ve been through the code… I don’t know how many times. The Flash layout system hates me.<br /><br />I’m sure that part of the problem is my ghetto open source <a href="http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flashdevelop.org%2Fcommunity%2F) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>development tools</a> for Flash. But until I have $700 to sink into something that is mostly a hobby, this is what I have available.<br /><br />And to everyone about to tell me to pirate it: eat me.http://www.weirdlooking.com/atom/comments/625