Comparing components version 1 and 2: PushButton

The purpose of showing this is two fold. One is to show difference in the properties and methods exposed by the Push Button component in V1 and V2. Second is to show case how easy and useful it is to use my ActionScript() function to see what’s inside a...

New Version of ActionScript() function for improved AS Tracing.

I’ve completely re-written my ActionScript function. For those who are hearing about it for the first time ActionScript(Object, ‘name_of_the_variable’) – gets complete reusable actionscript string of the Object including circular references....

Flash MX 2004 JSFL Reference

While the Macromedia’s official documentation for JSFL(The Flash JavaScript API) is not yet released, Steve Webster has put in some effort and created a reference for JSFL. Thanks for your efforts Steve! Have a look at it here!

__bytecode__ and its use

Robin Debreuil mentioned about it in his nice new blog(Welcome Robin!) and further discussed in FlashCoders mailinglist. Using __bytecode(“SomeByteCodeHere”); in your actionscript you can inject some bytecode into swf (It will be inserted at compile time)....

Intro to Flash MX 2004 User Group Session in Singapore

Lucian Beebe, Senior Product Manager for Flash is coming to Singapore for both the Launch of MX 2004 and this session. Date: Friday 19, September 2003 Time: 6 pm to 8 pm (right after the launch of MX 2004) Venue: Suntec City Convention Center Price: Free For more...

Macromedia MX 2004 – Corporate Launch (Singapore)

Event Date: 19-09-2003 Start Time: 13:30 End Time: 17:30 Description: New capabilities in Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX 2004 & Fireworks MX 2004 Venue : Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Auditorium For more details and registration visit Macromedia...

Yet another way to generate reference documents

Philter has developed a parser to parse the flash doc style comments in your actionscript. Using his parser you can generate gModeler XML. You already know that gModeler can generate reference XML. Combining this two tools we are getting complete solution for free. On...

New Open Source Socket Server for Flash

If you are building multiuser applications you might be interested in Oregano Multiuser Server, which was released last week. You can download it from www.oregano-server.org. It is completely free and Open Source and has an extensive feature set (automatic...

Updated my ActionScript() function

Arrays and Functions can have other properties attached to it. But my .toString() method and ActionScript() function does not account for it. Now I’ve rewritten the code to include those other properties as well. Also now it takes care of the properties with...

Extended Textfield to get pixel coordinates of characters

Converting x,y position in a text field into index and vice versa is very useful. Flash Coders with Director background already know the advantage. With this we can create text rollovers, place emoticons and pictures in line with the Textfield. I came to know about it...