Category Archives: Programming

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Using Abstract Classes in the Flash CS3/4 Library

Posted on March 11, 2009 by

Here’s a little trick that can help you save lots of time that might otherwise be spent creating multiple specialized classes in your Flash project. This trick makes use of the Base Class field in a symbol’s actionscript properties. (For … Continue reading →

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The quest for the elusive “N-gleton”

Posted on February 24, 2009 by

Sure, we’ve all heard of Singleton, the design pattern that limits the number of instances of a class to one. It’s a feel good pattern because it’s easy to use and make us feel smarter in front of our co-workers, … Continue reading →

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AS3 number to hex converter

Posted on January 29, 2009 by

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

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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AS2 EventDispatcher

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

I recently went back to some AS2 code and created a replica of the AS3 EventDispatcher in ActionScript 2.0. The code is based on Danny Patterson’s original EventBroadcaster code. I tried my best to match the syntax of the AS3 … Continue reading →

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