Posts Tagged ‘Actionscript 3.0’

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 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 [...]

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. [...]

February 11th, 2009, by Bodie Leonard

How to use tabIndex and getting rid of the yellow box in AS 3.0

Enabling tabIndex
You can either code all your tabIndex’s or you can use the Accessibility panel to set the Tab Index which can be found in Windows > Other Panel > Accessibility or shortcut Shift F11.

elementName.tabIndex=1; // numbers from 1 – 65535

Enable any elements that are not to be used by tab shortcut key

elementName.focusRect = true;

Once [...]