Category Archives: AS3

Q&A – is, as, and type conversion

Posted on January 27, 2009 by

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

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.

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AS3 Performance comparison tool

Posted on December 17, 2008 by

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

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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Flash Player 10 – 3D Example

Posted on October 21, 2008 by

I’ve tinkered a bit with Flash Player 10. One thing that seems almost funny about the 3D effects of Flash thus far is that very few examples show off actually 3D objects. Most examples I’ve examined show 2D planes transformed … Continue reading →

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