Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0805b
This week I thought of bringing a bunch of exciting contributions for ever increasing with each passing day.
Using CoverFlow Flex Component A detailed and interesting tutorial that explains how one can use the CoverFlow component to create sleek effects.
Detecting an alert control close A neat code example of how one can detect the close of […]
Detecting a mouse up outside event in AS3
In ActionScript3 event driven programming plays a major part with mouse or key pressed and even a text field having events associated with them. Events indicate action e.g. mouse press corresponds to “mouse down” event and vice versa is “mouse up” event.
To check if mouse release (mouseUp -Event.MOUSE_UP)) has happened on the target object on […]
Creating Graphics Copies with ActionScript3
Since ActionScript3 is the core to Flash/Flex RIA it contains an expansive repertoire of display objects, graphical methods to create such applications. At the same time for design of such an application may need replication of same object several times. E.g. virtual pool table
With AS3, in order to duplicate the properties of a Display object […]
Run time error handling in AS3
As most of us Flex or Flash developers are quite aware that the code we generate is often error prone; error handling is an issue that mandates serious consideration. While talking about errors we need to deal with compile time errors which are primarily due to syntax incorrectness along with run time errors that are […]
Using KeyCodes in ActionScript 3
When I started getting a hang of new stuff introduced in AS3, I got to notice that it has done away with a bunch of commands that were available in AS2. One of these missing commands included “Key.isDown” and added too that there were simply no key objects in AS3. Instead it has an alternative […]
Save memory and loading time when creating bitmaps with AS3
Often we notice that in our zeal to develop appealing web sites and RIA that look perky we may end up designing pages that take inordinately long to upload. Often stylish web pages necessitate the usage of a variety of object including images which take a serious toll on the memory. ActionScript provides developers with […]
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