Just a handy snippet I pinched: function addCommaInNumber (number : Number) : String { var integer : String = "" ; var fraction : String = "" ; var string : String = number.toString(); var array : Array = string.split("."); var regex : RegExp = /(\d+)(\d{3})/; integer = array[0]; while( regex.test(integer) ) { integer =... Continue Reading →

Pretty straightforward: debugField.scrollV = debugField.maxScrollV;

If you create two buttons, 'itemUpBtn' and 'itemDownBtn', and a datagrid of name 'itemGrid', with a column of ID's in it, you can move items up and down using this code. Fairly user friendly, as it re-selects the moved item once it's moved (just relies on that ID column to move them around). Below is... Continue Reading →

You can use %26. This came up when someone had a & symbol in an email address field. %26

This is a pretty handy wee class, for if you make something you want to scale down, but not scale up when the screen size is bigger. So all you need to do is wrap your module into a .swf built off this class, and in the HTML set the width/height of the flash box... Continue Reading →

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 →

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/

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

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

Not much to this snippet haha, but I had trouble finding it. It's part of the SelectableList class. dataGrid.selectedIndex = 0;