How to create a jQuery category drop down

Every couple of weeks I seem to find myself checking 9rules.com to see if theyre accepting new submissions as Id like to submit this site. Any how on this occasion I couldnt help but notice the browse by community section at the top of the page. Clicking the button reveals a section that contains a list of category names. I thought this would be a good example to base this post on, and to show how simple it is to achieve this effect. Ive ...

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Making a Flash game with the PushButton engine - Sound Effects

In this tutorial we add some sound effects to out PushButton game. VIEW THE DEMO DOWNLOAD THE SOURCE CODE RETURN TO THE TUTORIAL INDEX Now that we have out enemy fighter plane exploding with a nice animation, we just need to cap it off with an explosion sound effect. As you would imagine, PushButton has support for sound effects built in, and it is...

Emulating an Amiga in Linux

The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC's of it's time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC's in the 80's. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available. The first Amiga I ever saw was one owned by a friend. We would spend hours after school playing the many games that were...

Making a Flash game with the PushButton engine - Animation

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Making a Flash game with the PushButton engine - Entity Management

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Making a Flash game with the PushButton engine - Modifiers

In this tutorial we take a look at the modifier classes available in the PushButton engine. VIEW THE DEMO DOWNLOAD THE SOURCE CODE RETURN TO THE TUTORIAL INDEX The BitmapRenderer class, and therefore classes that extend it such as SpriteRenderer and SpriteSheetRenderer , includes a property called modifiers . This array can take a number of classes...