Tag Archives: as3

Android-AS3: Accelerometer

You bought an Android phone because you want to start developing a cool flash or AIR App for that device? Or you just wondering how easy it is to develop an application for those target devices? In the following series, I’m going to show you how to access those special properties that are available when [...]

AS3: Drawing dynamic anchor lines

Based on this post on the Adobe’s AS3 forum, I thought  I would create a simple class that takes care of the requested task. The whole idea is basically to draw a line dynamically between 2 displayobjects, on top of it when one object is being dragged the line is redrawn along based on the [...]

SWFObject & SWFAddress – compatibility

Who doesn’t know SWFObject & SWFAddress? These two JavaScript buddies are the best a serious Flash Developer can have. SWFObject embeds your Flash nicely and browser independent, it has gone a long way and now it’s even the default publishing method in Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst (not sure about Flash CS5 ), you can [...]

Zinc – Saving images

It was obvious that I had to write a few more lines about Zinc in the near future, but somehow this topic didn’t leave me alone at all, and no, I’m not writing about Zinc because I like it, I’m writing this because I don’t want that other people fall into the traps I fell [...]

AS3 – textfield setSelection()

Have you tried to set selection on atextfield after a validation procedure? Have you noticed that it doesn’t work quite right? Here’s the quick solution for that: Normally you would use the yourTextField.setSelection(startIndex, endIndex); method, but like I said before that doesn’t really work very well. You just need to set the focus to the [...]