ActionScript
These posts are all related to the ActionScript language
March 13, 2008
Random Seeds - Ordering Disorder
Randomness is great, that's a fact, it's very useful in many areas of programming, and is especially good to build non-repetitive games. However in some cases, it's useful to be able to reproduce...
ReadDecember 21, 2007
AS3 and the Display List, addChildAt magic.
ActionScript 3 introduced the Display List, which is the new version of the old depth system that AS1/2 had, and the Display Objects, which replace the MovieClip, but extending the idea a lot since...
ReadDecember 16, 2007
Heat maps drawing in Flash
Someone was looking for help to draw Heat Maps in Flash this afternoon on #flash and as I found the matter interesting I gave it a shot. I managed to do it by drawing grey circles with 1-5%...
ReadNovember 30, 2007
ActionScript 3 Language file for GeSHi
As I wanted to post AS3 code with syntax coloring, I researched it a bit and found GeSHi, a PHP syntax highlighter, for which you can create language files quite easily. There is currently no AS3...
ReadNovember 27, 2007
Throwing errors before a super() statement
Lately I was building a class which takes XML as it's configuration, reads part of it and then calls super() with some parameters. However I wanted to throw an error if the XML did not contain valid...
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