From the category archives:

Flash/Flex

Changes in Flex 4 to Flash Builder 4

July 2, 2009

Flex has become Flash Builder Beta and, in the process, a number of changes have been made to the earlier version of the Text Layout Framework. The TLF is a revolutionary set of classes that enables you to include very rich text, even editable, into your Flash applications via Flash Builder (or the next version [...]

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Reference an MXML object from an AS Object

February 6, 2009

Flex/AS3 can be extremely frustrating, as well as being very powerful. I’ve spent a couple of days creating a generic class for communicating with PHP, catching the response and sending it back to the calling object. I’d got fed up with having multiple, almost identical, event catching functions all over the place.
So, having done that [...]

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Removing Spaces from a String in ActionScript 3

January 29, 2009

Here’s a simple, two line function for removing spaces (can be adapted for any other character) from a string in AS3. I used it for removing any spaces typed into a Post Code.
public function stripspaces(originalstring:String):String
{
var original:Array=originalstring.split(” “);
return(original.join(“”));
}
All we’re doing is splitting the array using the space character and then joining that array back together into [...]

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Captivate Loading

November 28, 2008

If you’re a Captivate user, you’re probably aware that there are a number of Captivate variables that you can access from Flash. In other words, you load up a Captivate SWF inside a Flash movie and can then access some information about that Captivate movie including, for example, the number of slides, the current slide [...]

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Search and Replace in Flash/Flex

August 23, 2007

ActionScript 3 is one of the few languages I’ve ever worked with that lacks a native search and replace string function. In earlier versions of ActionScript it was necessary to hand-write a function to achieve this but AS3 can do it, just not as easily as it should.

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