Click Here site has been launched
February 17th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

Click Here site has been launched

Finally after many hours of flash development my coworker Corban Baxter and I have finally finished the Click Here website. This is my first full blown website with Actionscript 3.0.
Developing this site I learned that you must error proof as you go or an end product will be a big roll of duck tape.

10 Useful tips in developing a large scale flash as3 site that is fully dynamic in every way possible.

  1. Start with SWF Address or Gaia and work your site around those frameworks for deeplinking.
  2. Consistently check to make sure the flash doesn’t bog down the processor and loading times are adequate
  3. Use as many classes as you can to cut down on repetitive functions
  4. Make sure all a href=”" target=”_blank” links are not blocked by browser popup blockers as you code to save headache at crunch time.
  5. Disable all elements on stage that are not in the tabIndex by tabEnabled = false;
  6. Make sure you have all the up-to-date free debugging software. Flash Tracer is great if your on FireFox
  7. Make sure you removeEventListeners as you develop for garbage collection
  8. One object to rule them all. If your loading in XML create an object={}; so you can call one central location to prevent player corruption down the road.
  9. Instead of for loops everywhere try forEach()
  10. Enjoy as3 and learn something new with every new project. Check out this very helpful presentation by Branden Hall CTO & Chief Sofware Architect at Automata Studios

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  1. By Yogendra Singh on March 5th 2009

    Am using navigateToUrl with _blank as param to open a new url window. This gets caught in popup blocker on IE. DO you have any workaround for this?

  2. See this post and it may help…. post


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