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.
- Start with SWF Address or Gaia and work your site around those frameworks for deeplinking.
- Consistently check to make sure the flash doesn’t bog down the processor and loading times are adequate
- Use as many classes as you can to cut down on repetitive functions
- Make sure all a href=”" target=”_blank” links are not blocked by browser popup blockers as you code to save headache at crunch time.
- Disable all elements on stage that are not in the tabIndex by tabEnabled = false;
- Make sure you have all the up-to-date free debugging software. Flash Tracer is great if your on FireFox
- Make sure you removeEventListeners as you develop for garbage collection
- 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.
- Instead of for loops everywhere try forEach()
- 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









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?
See this post and it may help…. post