Flash optimization is becoming increasing important & with alternative development tools that developers can use. We all have a responsibility to build Flash elements that are efficient as much as they are groundbreaking. As someone who feels responsible for the future of this great application, I am creating a Flash Optimization series that will help [...]
Flash optimization is becoming increasing important & with alternative development tools that developers can use. We all have a responsibility to build Flash elements that are efficient as much as they are groundbreaking. As someone who feels responsible for the future of this great application, I am creating a Flash Optimization series that will help [...]
This tutorial will explain you how to manage AS3 sprites and depths, and what’s changed from AS2 to AS3. In every Actionscript version, when two movieclips (or objects, shapes, texts…) overlap, the one with the greater depth stands in front of the other. You can think about depth as a Z coordinate. The first difference [...]
Often times, you will find yourself assigning many properties to one particular movie clip. Let’s say you have a movie clip instance called data_txt. Adding properties to it could look like this: Notice how you are repeating the word theContent. A better, cleaner method for referencing one particular object would be to use the with() [...]
can use this fix to bypass popups in IE… and to use : PopupWindow.as PopupWindowDefaults.as //—————————————————————————— // // COPYRIGHT © 2008 NEONDUST STUDIOS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. // //—————————————————————————— package com.neondust.external { import flash.external.ExternalInterface; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.net.navigateToURL; /** */ public class PopupWindow { //———————————————————————- // // PUBLIC CONSTANTS // //———————————————————————- /** * The name of [...]
Getting Started Grab the source code, documentation and examples for the latest version of Flint. Either grab the current downloads of each or check out the latest code from the GitHub or Google Code repositories. Introduction This first tutorial will introduce the basics of Flint through a project to create a snow effect. Our effect [...]
Careful with this one. It’s easy to miss if you’re accustomed to Actionscript 1 or 2. stage.width will return the width of the content on the stage and ignore any empty pixels around the edges. So if you only have a 100 px wide rectangle on stage, your stage.width will be 100. stage.stageWidth will give [...]
This is a handy-dandy animation plug-in similar to Animonger’s AnimSlider, except that it uses frame labels and requires no other setup. The video tutorial is now live. See the extension in action! Update (8/26/09): A savvy user caught a stage refresh bug introduced in Flash CS4 with AS3. If you’re using Flash CS4 & AS3 [...]
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