/********************************************
 * GENERAL USE FUNCTIONS
 ********************************************/

// new x and y translation functions
// Translates a point based on top left being 0,0 to a point
//       with the center being the 0,0 point
function _x(num, width) {
	return ( width / 2 ) + num;
}
function _y(num, height) {
	return -num + ( height / 2 );
}


/*
 * Get URL parameter by name. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/get-querystring-with-jquery/901144#901144
 */
function getParameterByName( name ) {
	name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
	var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
	var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
	var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
	if( results == null )
		return "";
	else
		return results[1];
}



/**
*
*  URL encode / decode (now with more Unicode!)
*  http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/

var Url = {

	// public method for url encoding
	encode : function (string) {
		return escape(this._utf8_encode(string));
	},

	// public method for url decoding
	decode : function (string) {
		return this._utf8_decode(unescape(string));
	},

	// private method for UTF-8 encoding
	_utf8_encode : function (string) {
		string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
		var utftext = "";

		for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {

			var c = string.charCodeAt(n);

			if (c < 128) {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
			}
			else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
			}
			else {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
				utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
			}

		}

		return utftext;
	},

	// private method for UTF-8 decoding
	_utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
		var string = "";
		var i = 0;
		var c = c1 = c2 = 0;

		while ( i < utftext.length ) {

			c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);

			if (c < 128) {
				string += String.fromCharCode(c);
				i++;
			}
			else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
				c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
				string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
				i += 2;
			}
			else {
				c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
				c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
				string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
				i += 3;
			}

		}

		return string;
	}

};