If you're making your movie do it's own rescaling dynamically (ie. the stage is 100% of window size etc and the flash movie is moving some shell clip around to center etc.) need to remember to put this in, else it won't be hearing any of the stage resize events and your rescaling won't fire.... Continue Reading →
Override inline CSS styles
This handy chap has simply showed the light of CSS overrides, nice and easy really. Slap important over what inline styles you want overridden! <div style="background: red;"> The inline styles for this div should make it red. </div> div[style] { background: yellow !important; } src: http://css-tricks.com/2708-override-inline-styles-with-css/
try / catch
Try and catch is most handy for handling files with AIR etc. Pretty straightforward, but just incase you forget the syntax: try { // statements } catch (error:ArgumentError) { trace('An argument error has occured'); } catch (error:Error) { trace('An error has occured which is not argument related'); } src: (ty) http://www.foundation-flash.com/tutorials/tryandcatch/
DataGrid data to XML AS3
Probably not the prettiest method to do this, but it'll do for just before I go home. This is to change datagrid objects back into XML - this is only for my case and needs custom coding, but the method is there! var newXML:XML = new XML(<coaches></coaches>); for (var i:int = 0; i < dataGrid.length;... Continue Reading →
Datagrid – delete selected row
Again, this is all just SelectableList behaviours but how often does anyone use datagrids to remember this?! dataGrid.removeItemAt(dataGrid.selectedIndex); http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/controls/SelectableList.html
Get frame number from label AS3
function getFrameByLabel(yourMovieClip:MovieClip, frameLabel: String ):int { var scene:Scene = yourMovieClip.currentScene; var frameNumber:int = -1; for( var i:int ; i < scene.labels.length ; ++i ) { if( scene.labels[i].name == frameLabel ) frameNumber = scene.labels[i].frame; } return frameNumber; } Src: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4846858/as3-simple-way-to-get-the-frame-number-of-a-frame-label
DataGrid select a particular row
Not much to this snippet haha, but I had trouble finding it. It's part of the SelectableList class. dataGrid.selectedIndex = 0;
DataGrid get data from the selected row when clicked
gridBox.addEventListener(ListEvent.ITEM_CLICK, ItemClicked); function ItemClicked(e:ListEvent){ //heres the bit you want var o:Object = e.item; trace(o.Name); trace(o.Age);
Listing object properties / names
If you need to get the property names from an object: var object:Object = {name:"lawrence", age:"26"}; for( var o : * in object){ trace( o + " = " + object[o] ); } source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/372317/how-can-i-get-list-of-properties-in-an-object-in-actionscript
TweenMax tween curves
import com.greensock.TweenMax; import com.greensock.plugins.BezierPlugin; import com.greensock.plugins.BezierThroughPlugin; TweenMax.to(sp,5,{bezierThrough:[{x:250,y:100},{x:50,y:200},{x:500,y:200}]}); Man TweenLite/TweenMax is awesome.
Flash Scaling with Firefox
If you're making a flash clip take up the entire browser window, as can be necessary on occasion, in most browsers throwing in height="100%" works fine. Not so with firefox. Firefox interprets the doctype strictly, which disables the internal elements from setting the height of the window (100% of something in a div, will just... Continue Reading →
Stop stage rescalling AS3
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;