Archive for the ‘Actionscript 3’ Category

August 25th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

CS4 Flash shared libraries time saver

I am always working on large scale sites in flash and I work with creatives that have a tendency to change their mind every once in a while . I needed to come up with a quick solution to change assets quickly across an entire site. Some sites can have at least 20 or [...]

August 14th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

Flash cant find my font? Fonts in Adobe Flash CS4 on OSX

For a while now I have just skirted around the issues I have been having with fonts in flash. The font I have had problems with is not one in particular but today it was an Open Type Font. I started some R&D on this issue and I actually sent a tweet @Flash_Platform [...]

March 5th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

Possibly the coolest thing I have see in flash

Taking flash webcam to the next level with papervision.
Dynamic papervision

March 5th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

AS3 getting past IE popup blocker

[Edited September 04, 2009]
I also use this fix to bypass popups in IE…

/*
use this snippet in the as file to work with this class
function discoverBtnHandler(e:MouseEvent){
var popup:PassPopup = new PassPopup();
// Open the popup window.
popup.ChangePage( “http://theotherwhitemeat.com/porkrecipes/#/recipes/” );
}
*/
package com {
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
[...]

February 20th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

Saving cookies with actionscript 3.0 SharedObject

Awesome easy way to save data in a form via actionscript 3.0 SharedObject.
First create a input text field with an instance name of username. Next create a simple button with the instance name of myButton. Lastly copy this code in your actions panel. That easy!

// creating the shared object and nameing it mydata
[...]

February 19th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

Adobe Actionscript 3.0 E4X

Currently I am creating a sortable list via actionscript 3.0 and xml. I have been learning about E4X but have not really taken that big step to form the way as2 talkes to XML to E4X. I started my reserch on dispatchevent.org then I viewed the E4X video from Mark Birat the Adobe [...]