Missing video frames
Trying to import a video into Flash IDE and place it on the timeline (need it there to work with graphics layers etc on top of it). However, Flash generally seems to want to screw up the video by changing timings in it, i e dropping frames here and there. The quick solution is to [...]
import external classes at runtime!!
A new thing about AS3 is the ability to import external classes at runtime!!Yes it’s true. You can use Loader() to import the swf and then when the swf is loaded you can get all the classes in the swf file through the “event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition([class name]) as Class” thingy … I’m not sure where or when [...]
Where’s the mouse at
An odd thing I stumbled upon. Don’t know if you would file it as a bug. Apparantly you can hide the mouse with Mouse.hide() even when the mouse is outside the flash area. This simple flash show how you coudl easily annoy people by using Mouse.hide() in an onEnterFrame loop. Even when the mouse pointer [...]
Why do you never learn
That dynamic text fields can’t be masked by graphics, only by movieclips, is a well known fact. Never the less, it’s still utterly annoying.
Even though you’ve been through it a thousand times you still can’t get it in your head and spend way too much time trying to understand why that text field you are trying [...]
Iterate XML nodes
In AS3 working with XML seems so much easier. But AS2 is still a part of the every day.
Always seem to forget and change how I parse XML, found this that I really don’t why I haven’t used before (at least I don’t think I have).
A really simple way to iterate through an XML objects [...]