Tramping, Tales, Training and Travails
Pretty stupid thing I just tripped up on, but I was incrementing through a loop, adding 0.05 to an angle each time (for circular movement). I noticed after a while, the number, which should have just changed between 0.00, 0.05, 0.1 etc. was ending up being 0.15000000000000002 and therefore screwing everything up - for no... Continue Reading →
Handy wee snippet: Class(getDefinitionByName(getQualifiedClassName(myMC))) (Remember to import flash.utils) Then you can bang it out like-a-so: var mc:MovieClip = new targetClass(); eg. this below, gets the class of an instance called 'page0' within contentMC, creates a new one and adds it to the stage: var targetClass:Class = Class(getDefinitionByName(getQualifiedClassName(contentMC.page0))); var tempPage:DisplayObject = new targetClass(); addChild(tempPage); And if... Continue Reading →
To add filter effects to DisplayObjects in AS3 it is just as easy as applying text formatting or color formatting - well, there's an extra intermediary in there but it's much the same idea. Easier to show an example than to explain: var blurred:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(blurAmount, blurAmount); var filters:Array = [blurred]; myMc.filters = filters;... Continue Reading →
trace(colorValue.toString(16)) Will trace out to hex. Handy.
Are you losing your menus in Captivate when you're working with flash clips? There's a simple but obscure work around for this! Solution: Open up your library tab and click on a few different library items - the top menu should now work correctly. No more restarting Captivate every time you touch an embedded animation!... Continue Reading →
If your jpgs, pngs and gifs are scaling all jittery in Flash, hard-cutting to pixels and appearing to shimmer or bounce when you tween the image you can fix that really easily: find the image you're tweening in the library, right-click, select its properties and choose 'Allow Smoothing'. That'll sort you right out. A co-worker of... Continue Reading →
mySprite.filters = [new BlurFilter(5, 5, 3)]; You'd have a blurry box after that.
If you can't get WAMP to do clean URLs for you in Drupal you may need to enable the rewrite_module in WAMP if you've just set it up. Click the tray icon » Apache » Apache modules » rewrite_module (should be checked)
Using split() and join() you can strip or insert characters into strings very easily. The below function can be called to do just that. /// Replaces characters in a string. public static function replaceChars(targetString:String, charactersToStrip:String, replacementCharacters:String = "") { targetString = targetString.split(charactersToStrip).join(replacementCharacters); return targetString; }
You can make your htmltext fields have highlights etc by applying some minor CSS styles to the htmltext fields in Flash. var theCSS:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet(); theCSS.setStyle("a:link", {color:'#361B59', textDecoration:'underline'}); theCSS.setStyle("a:hover", {color:'#532C8F', textDecoration:'none'}); contentField.styleSheet = theCSS; More things you can do: http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/StyleSheet.html
I've been doing some work with XML in AS3 and needing to have the XML contain HTML characters for an htmltext field in Flash - for links and lists etc. Few ways to approach that: <![CDATA[ "Rampant <'s and &'s in the XML fields that XML ignores due to special CDATA tags within the fields"... Continue Reading →
loading XML into flash as an XML object // xml loader var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); var xmlData:XML = new XML(); xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML); xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("leadership_development_framework.xml")); function loadXML(event:Event):void { xmlData = new XML(event.target.data); } Further to that, once you've your xmlData filled, you can chop it up with XMLList to make sub-listings for easier management. For... Continue Reading →
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