Posts Tagged ‘ActionScript’


Peter Elst: What’s new in ActionScript 3.0

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - 5:01 pm

Flash has come a long way since the dawn of the unfortunate “skip intro” phenomena that swept the web in the late 90’s. ActionScript 3.0 is now able to do things never thought possible on the web.

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Adobe AIR and Security

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - 9:19 am

The security model for the HTML application sandbox in AIR varies significantly from the sandbox available in the browser. The reason behind this is there are a number of design and implementation patterns common to HTML web applications that are too dangerous to be combined with the local system access inherent in the AIR application sandbox.

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Adobe technology platform ActionScript reference for RIA development

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 - 4:38 am

The Adobe technology platform ActionScript reference for RIA development is a 50 paged Printable PDF which provides a complete ActionScript 3 API listing for Flash Player, Adobe AIR and Flex 3.

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ActionScript 3.0: It is NOT hard to learn

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 - 8:44 am

I regularly hear people claim, incorrectly, that to use ActionScript 3.0, you have to know object-oriented programming, or every variable’s datatype must be declared, or everything has to be in packages and classes.

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Adobe announced BlazeDS, AMF Specification goes Open Source

Sunday, December 16th, 2007 - 6:21 pm

Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to serialize ActionScript objects.

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ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook

Saturday, August 11th, 2007 - 11:12 pm

ActionScript 3.0 CookBook is very much like any other CookBoook and gets to the point right away with over 300+ example codes. It is not a book to teach you ActionScript 3.0 from scratch but rather assumes that you know AS 3.0 and wanted to get down dirty with codes instantly.

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Remove HandCursor for Button or MC

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004 - 8:36 am

Here is a common reply to my students, forum users for the querry, “How do I remove the hand cursor from all instance of Buttons or MCs without specifying it individually?”. Modify the script below to suit your needs. Apply it using removeHand();

myRoot = this;
function removeHand() {
for (i in myRoot) {
if ((myRoot[i] instanceof Button) || (myRoot[i] instanceof …

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External JPEG file preloader

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 - 4:00 pm

Due to popular demands and complaints from many MM forum users when my previous external JPEG preloader went offline, I am bringing back the external JPEG preloader with a new improvised script. I wasn’t sure if people still liked that preloader, so, I am sorry as most of the files went offline while changing web host. You …

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Classed stage objects with empty library

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004 - 1:03 am

Every class is compiled into a swf in the same way that we used to include AS1 classes, by putting them inside an #initclip block of a linked movieclip. The linkage name of the movieclip is __Packages followed by the full package and class name.

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Advanced Flash Developers needed

Monday, August 16th, 2004 - 9:04 pm

More and more companies are asking and ready to take in Flash into the mainstream Development environment. There should be a way to teach and produce more advanced Flash Developers en masse.

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Magic Framerate

Monday, August 2nd, 2004 - 10:03 am

Magic Framerate, the fps of some odd number like 21, 31 and why people have choosen that. Frame rates are stored in 16.16 fixed pointer integer. Add to this, the framerate is converted to a millisecond frame delay value.

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Sidenotes

Quick notes, scribbles, somehow related to this website and to what I do. Or perhaps I'm just plain lazy to make them into a full article.

Introduction to Adobe AIR (NetTuts)

Nettuts have a nice Introduction to Adobe AIR which focus on using HTML/JS to build an AIR Application. It covers -- Adobe AIR Architecture, How to install AIR, Get the development SDK, Configurations, gets on to ...2nd Oct, 2008

Decide Team Type from Books

What do you think of the "Team-Type" if they got these books recently? What "Team-Type" do these books suggest? ( surveys) 29th Sep, 2008

What do investors look for in a startup?

A great video Interview with Venture Hacker Naval Ravikant answering the age-old question: What do you look for in a startup? Investors look for two things that are paramount above all: # Great team: It's obvious. It's a ...27th Sep, 2008

You don't mess with the 'Englineer Bother'

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Dear Adobe

Do you have a gripe with the Adobe Softwares that you use? Do you have complaints about Adobe Softwares? Please visit Dear Adobe to file your informal gripe with Adobe. 15th Sep, 2008

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