Category Archives: AS3

AS3 number to hex converter

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Mims H Wright

I’ve been working on some code for converting colors lately and getting quite into bitwise operations. In one of the demos I was making, I needed a quick and easy way to see the results of a color calculation. Of … Continue reading →

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Q&A – is, as, and type conversion

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Mims H Wright

A question from a reader gave me an excuse to write a huge rant about type conversions: I’m doing a little exercise in a book that makes a textfield in which each letter can only be entered once. Not very … Continue reading →

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Downsampling Flash – Converting AS3 to AS2

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Mims H Wright

I recently came across a situation where I was forced to convert a working project in Flash 9 AS3 to Flash 8 AS2. I wanted to share some of my experiences to help other weary programmers in the same predicament.

Posted in AS3, Flash, Programming, Tutorial | 15 Comments

AS3 Performance comparison tool

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Mims H Wright

I ran across an interesting performance comparison tool at businessintelligence.me This could be very useful for code optimization and for a general understanding of what’s going on behind the scenes. Perhaps the most striking comparisons in this tool are the … Continue reading →

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Tip: Adding version checking to your external code library

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Mims H Wright

Since version 1.0 of a code library that I’m sure you’re tired of me talking about came out, I have been making steady updates, some of which break legacy code. I was also having trouble keeping track of which version … Continue reading →

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