Randy Troppmann

A new version of RUNNINGMAP that I have been furiously working on for the last couple of weeks went live. This work included a complete refactoring of the code base and even with the added features and graphics, the new version comes in at 13k smaller. New features:

• Elevation chart is created as you add points. This feature uses another webservice and is somewhat experimental at this time.
• Radio buttons to toggle imperial/metric units of measure.
• Any point can be deleted by clicking on it and pressing the “delete” button
• Keyboard shortcut for Undo: Ctrl Z (does not work in Safari)
• Other minor UI enhancements
• Permalink can be entered in address bar in the format “id=1234″

I like the default skin that comes with the mCom Flash components. Its really well done. After a while though you need to mix it up and put your own stamp on things, and mCom lets you do that. So I made my own skin, which you can see below. If you like it you can have it by downloading the source here . What I learned is that technically mCom makes it easy to make a skin. From a visual design standpoint easy it is not!

The examples below also highlight the lightweight nature of mCom. The mCom example file size is 12kb and the Macromedia V2 example is 40k.

mCom UIScrollBar with custom skin:

Macromedia V2 UIScrollBar: