This site is currently inactive. There will be no new posts on this site in the foreseeable future. Support for the Overlay Extension for OpenZoom will continue so feel free to ask questions. If you are interested in keeping up with my latest work you can check out my new site at http://labs.makemachine.net.

A new set of classes for the Overlay Extension have been completed. The new code allows regions of a zoom image to be accompanied by audio ( read: music, narration, sound fx ). A region is defined as either radial or rectangular and within a zoom range. The demo below demonstrates the basic concept. Note: [...]

A couple of new overlay code examples have been added to our Google Code repository. These examples are very stripped down

The Overlay Extension for the OpenZoom SDK is light-weight set of Actionscript 3 classes that provide mapping-like functionality for use with the OpenZoom ZUI ( zoomable user interace) framework. These classes provide functionality for adding “hotspots” and “point to point paths” to the Open Zoom MultiScaleImage component. These classes use standard x & y coordinates [...]

Just came up with this simple method for removing extra whitespace from a string using regular expressions and the String.replace() method. Many examples found on the web involve looping through the entire string and evaluating individual characters which can be an expensive operation. Using regular expressions, as shown below, can definitely save some keystrokes and [...]