Last week while working on the interface for my new upcoming library I needed a way to save some data on the users computer, altough I’m working with AIR I could easily save an xml or a txt file to the users local computer, but as soon as I would start writing a pure as3 [...]

Facebook.. Could you live without facebook nowadays? Sometimes I’m happy when I don’t get anything on facebook, just to have a bit of peace and quiet of it. Well, nevertheless, I’m writing this article because I’ve seen this post on the Adobe Forums by dmennenoh where he asked for the possibilities of using the Facebook [...]

While writing my next post, about Facebook and Flash development, I noticed that there is something in my post drafts that I haven’t published yet, so I changed it a bit and here you go. On one of my last posts taking a screenshot with AS3 I’ve explained how to create a snapshot by using [...]

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 [...]

Ok you want to take a snapshot of a movieclip, sprite, displayobject, shape or just simply the whole stage? That is a simple task to accomplish in AS3. Below a reusable function I wrote while working for one of our clients: private function getBitmapData( target:DisplayObject ) : BitmapData { if ( bd ) { bd [...]