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 […]
How to add isPlaying Property to Movie Clips with AS3
Web designer are always looking for means to makes their sites eye catchy and thereby videos and movie clips etc are often placed to jazz things up. To make them look millions buck, ActionScript3 gives the leverage to play around .Be it videos or sound files or movie clips, flash files, we need mechanism to […]
PixelPerfect, a Little Perfect AIR Tool
Among the various AIR applications that have caught my fancy, PixelPerfect stood out for its sleek implementation (pure AS3) and it usability. Essentially it is designed to let you measure the accurate size of entity’s of your desktop. This software lets you take the measure of objects in pixels. It comes with multiple resizable rulers […]
How to Load a Cross Domain File in AS3
In today’s internet world, web sites are using more catchy and snazzy videos to gain people’s interest and to capture larger market share. In this process site developers are been troubled to check out the stuff from other servers due to security reasons. As usage of cross border data is often a necessity it is […]
How to Get Sound Spectrum Information with AS3?
These days’ sound files are being readily introduced to jazz up the web pages. Once we have the preferred tracks onto our site many of us may be tempted to try our hands at creating visualizations similar to the look and feel of popular media player applications. In order to display such visualizations it is […]
How to Split Strings in AS3
Well… as I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I am basically a Java programmer and hence when it comes to programming in ActionScript, I realize that the bits of code that I take for granted in Java are things I need to ponder about a little when they are to be coded […]
Call an ActionScript Function from JavaScript Embedded in an AIR App
Whoever said that becoming the master of one was more important than being the jack of many definitely did not belong to the world of computer programming. Well, this thought occurred to me when for a particular program, I was required to call one of the ActionScript functions from some JavaScript. The main problem was […]
Can I have a variable number of arguments in AS3?
Having programmed in Java extensively before, I am used to the various features of Java that I take them for granted. Even today, when I first think of the logic for a program, it is based on what can be done in Java and what can’t. So, when I had to use ActionScript for a […]
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