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One From the Vault: How I Rolled My Own Collision Detection
Recently in a Shockwave3D project, I had some problems with the modelsUnderRay command. More precisely, modelsUnderRay seemed to have some problems of its own. Occasionally it just didn't give the correct result, it would miss a model somehow. In the particular application I was building (a landscape that let the user's drive a car around on the surface), this was dramatic because the when modelsUnderRay failed, the car fell through the world.
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This is a great article, at least in substance. The problem is, as previously commented, the source listing is completely unusable. I was able to parse it and remove all of the bad line-breaks (what fun) but then got snarled in several mistyped variable names.

Andrew, is there any chance you could repost the sample code or just provide a working demo DIR file?

Thanks!

The misplaced line breaks make the code impossible to compile. Can you post a corrected version - or even better, a sample file?


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By Yakov Fain
D G wrote: Using two activex controls seems rather complex and most excel files will not have the activex control embedded anyway. Why not just call an external program that talks directly to any excel file? See http://www.d-w-systems.com/products.html for an example.
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Dev G wrote: Using two activex controls etc seems rather complicated. Also, you can not access excel files whihc do not have this control embedded. It maybe simpler to just call an external process (using an http or webservice call) that can read/write to any excel file. See http://www.d-w-systems.com/products.h...
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NN wrote: No it is not a concern. If they are thinking people are not waiting for site to load and run away. It is myth because HTML page also takes time to load apart from home page loads little faster compare to web 2.0 home page. HTML base site won't make your site popular overnight or get 1 million order...
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NN wrote: DRH: you are jumping up and down on silverlight without any light. let see Microsoft work so hard to kill Java and all know the story. Today we have so many apps running on Java (backend more and front ends sucks where flex shines). Now we have great tools for complete RIA (almost free) Flex + Java...
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Daniel Szmulewicz wrote: Shalom, OK, so this post is two years old, but I just found it today and appreciated it a lot. Very instructive, indeed. Since you asked for more versions to achieve the desired resizeable canvas, may I offer mine. It is in the line of the Flex version offered at the end, only simplified. Here...
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