With this version, we’ve made some major improvements to the interface of the entire site, making everything far prettier and more functional.

Improvements include:

• The ability to delete a file.
• A far more interesting and informative home and features page.
• A cleaned up “Your Design” library, far more beautiful.
• The new search bar in the header can search through either everyone’s designs, or just your own.
• And a lot more under the hood…

So, what are you waiting for? Give it a spin!

The sample here shows all the data points available in the Unit Circle class represented as labeled dots. To learn more about what each of these actually mean visit this article at wikipedia.

Using the unit circle class is ever so easy. Simply initialize it with three pieces of information: the center point, the radius, and either an arbitrary angle or an arbitrary point (that will cause the angle to be calculated). In this example the unit circle is animated by using a timer to continually set the angle to an ever-increasing number.

You can interact with it by clicking and dragging your mouse in any of the white space outside of the main circle. When dragging your mouse you are setting the arbitrary point to the current mouse position. Use the slider on the bottom to set the artificial zero to any angle between 0 & 360.

The class is still in production so I am not releasing its code, but if there is enough interest I will release it when I have fleshed out its features and completely debugged it. Drop us a line if you’re interested in seeing the code.

delicious:designer, build 39, released August 2, 2007.

• Dramatic social features added
  • Share your designs by sending eCards
  • Invite your friends to collaborate on your designs
  • Post your designs to many different bookmark sites like Blogmarks, del.icio.us, Digg, Google Bookmarks, Ma.gnolia, My Web 2.0, Netscape and Technorati.
  • Search through everyone’s designs
• Add meta data (tags, titles and descriptions) to each of your designs far quicker with some crazy new AJAX wizardry.
• Lots of behind-the-scenes changes and refinements that make your experience far more delicious. Just pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

And have no fear, we have lots and lots of features to roll out with the next build. So, go! Check it out!

import com.Keyboard.*;

import flash.events.*;// Key is used so we can test for a key being down, like we used to do in AS2Key.initialize(stage);

// Create your key detector and set up a few combinations to test for

var keyDet = new KeyDetection(stage);keyDet.addCombination(“undo”, Keyboard.CONTROL, 90);

// Control + ZkeyDet.addCombination(“redo”, Keyboard.CONTROL, 89);

// Control + YkeyDet.addCombination(“three keys”, Keyboard.CONTROL, Keyboard.SHIFT, 89);

// Control + Shift + Y

// Add a listener so we can respond to key combinations when they are pressed

keyDet.addEventListener(KeyComboEvent.KEY_COMBINATION, keyCombo);

function keyCombo(event:KeyComboEvent):void

{

    switch (event.label)

    {

        case “undo”:

 		trace(“Undo Combination Pressed”);

 		textArea.appendText(“Undo Combination Pressedn”);

 		break;

 	case “redo”:

 		trace(“Redo Combination Pressed”);

 		textArea.appendText(“Redo Combination Pressedn”);

 		break;

 	case “three keys”:

 		trace(“Our three-key Combination was Pressed”);

 		textArea.appendText(“Our three-key Combination Pressedn”);

 		break;

 	}

 }

}

Click here to download the Flash 9 sample with source code, and click here to view the package documentation.

• A “saving your art” progress bar, giving you much more valuable feedback, basically letting you know that Yes, your art has been saved.
• An artboard size tool allows you to change the pixel size of your finished file.
• Change your embed preferences to allow people to either create a new design off your embedded artwork, edit and overwrite the original design, or not allow them to edit it at all. These can be set across all your designs, or on an art-by-art basis.
• You can now browse through your artwork by tags.
• We’ve improved the bitmap rendering in order to reduce jaggies on rotated images.

And many other minor interface tweaks to make your world a little more delicious.

So, what are you waiting for? Start designing!

I wrote a custom class to mimic the Flash ActionScript 2 built in setInterval() and clearInterval() functions, but with the addition of this two-step timer. The sample swf demoed here shows my stepper that increments a number up and down. When you press and hold either arrow button the number increments slowly for the first 10, and then increments faster until you release the button. Another example of this class in action is the nudge function in the delicious:designer — the user can nudge art objects using the arrow keys. The first nudge occurs at a long interval, and then, if the user continues holding the key down, the nudge continues at a faster interval.Here is sample ActionScript 2 code showing how simple it can be to create a double interval function call. This example will call the function myFunction 10 times every 200 milliseconds. Then it will call the function myFunction every 50 milliseconds until the user clears it.

import mx.utils.Delegate;
import delicious.doubleInterval;
intervalNumber = doubleInterval.setDoubleInterval( Delegate.create( this, myFunction ), 200, 10, 50);

For more advanced uses you can also pass parameters to the function called on the interval. The class can be downloaded here, and the documentation can be viewed here.

• By popular demand, you can now set the size of your embedded artwork.
• Add a title, description and searchable tags to your artwork.
• A cleaned-up interface uses reworked tool palettes to give you improved control while sacrificing far less screen real-estate. Trust us, you’ll notice it when you see it.
• Help tips within the designer give you valuable feedback and information about selected tools and objects.
• A new Tips and Tricks section of our website contains verbose tutorials about the designer.

Also, we’re using some of Mark James’ fabulous Silk icons for many elements, so it should be a bit easier on the eyes.

Of note for the near future: we are building in support for Cut, Copy, and Paste, so look for those tools soon!

flickr.com/groups/deliciousdesigner

Thanks for the feedback we’ve received so far, but definitely keep it coming! If you have a bug report, take a screenshot of the wackiness and add it to our Flickr pool. That’ll help us out quite a bit.

Major apologies are due to IE users, as delicious:designer was unusable to them since Tuesday. We also owe a big apology to Firefox users, who probably experienced a pesky height issue during the better part of today. You Safari users have always been cool with us, so don’t worry.

Just wanted to let you all know Jon and I have been putting out these browser fires all day, and after a brief taste test, the Internet is once again delicious.