Method Verification in Actionscript 3
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property doSomething not found on YourObject and there is no default value. Look familiar? Let’s say you want to verify an object has a method before calling that method –...
View ArticleFrom Flash to Flex: Creating ActionScript Components for Flex
By Kris Hadlock Do you want to develop applications more quickly, write cleaner code, and use external sources as the data that drives your applications? Kris Hadlock explains how to create an...
View ArticleBuilding a Table Class in ActionScript 2.0
Bront Davis says that it’s not as complicated as you may think to display tabular HTML data in a Flash application. Working with ActionScript and XPath, this article examines a custom class for...
View ArticleFlash ActionScripting for Designers: Controlling Timeline Playback
By James Gonzalez In Flash, once a movie starts, it plays in its entirety until it either reaches the last frame of the last scene on the Timeline, or it is instructed otherwise. The only way to...
View ArticleFlash ActionScripting for Designers: Taking the Mystery Out of ActionScript
By James Gonzalez To really get the most out of Flash, you need to learn and use ActionScript. Read this concise ActionScript primer by author James Gonzalez to start taking the mystery out of this...
View ArticleActionScript 3.0, Flash CS6 and Mobile Apps
William B. Sanders Games, Art and Flash In looking for some game images for this post, I came across one of the cave drawings from Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc, France created about 17,300 years ago. All told,...
View ArticleFlash & Flex Extra 1/2012
Free Articles/Teasers by Angelika Dear Readers, In this special issue, we’ll be looking at a broad range of ActionScript programming topics – everything from the very basics of programming to...
View ArticleSix reasons to use ActionScript 3.0
It’s been quite a while since ActionScript 3.0 hit the scene with Adobe Flash Player 9. User feedback tells us that the majority of the Flash community has already made the transition from ActionScript...
View ArticleFlash ActionScripting for Designers: Taking the Mystery Out of ActionScript
By James Gonzalez To really get the most out of Flash, you need to learn and use ActionScript. Read this concise ActionScript primer by author James Gonzalez to start taking the mystery out of this...
View ArticleFlash ActionScripting for Designers: Controlling Timeline Playback
By James Gonzalez In Flash, once a movie starts, it plays in its entirety until it either reaches the last frame of the last scene on the Timeline, or it is instructed otherwise. The only way to...
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