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Book Review: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
With the release of Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0, I started to watch for new books coming out. Admittedly the numbers have been smaller than I expected, but the first book to hit the shelves — one I’ve been anticipating with enthusiasm — is the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith […]
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“Introduction to ActionScript 3.0”: slides, files, and recording
A few weeks back (February 21, 2007) I gave a presentation titled “Introduction to ActionScript 3.0” to the Indiana University Flash Users’ Group. The bulk of the presentation was a comparison between previous ActionScript versions and ActionScript 3.0, looking at syntax, the object model, event handling, how code runs in Flash Player, and more. I […]
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Multiple AS3 classes in one file
Since you could do it in early betas of Flex 2, but can’t seem to now, some people have been wondering if it’s possible to have multiple ActionScript 3.0 classes defined in a single .as file. Here’s a look at how to do it, and why you might or might not want to.
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“YouTube” as a video format?!?
I was a little surprised by a web page which offered a video in three different formats: Windows Media, QuickTime and … YouTube? Here are a few thoughts on this, leading to the conclusion that Flash Player might be too ubiquitous for its own good.
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Book Review: Foundation ActionScript Animation
I’ve been a longtime fan of the work of Keith Peters. For years he’s given away examples on his web site; however, I’ve always found it to be a bit of work to dissect his examples and figure out how and why they work the way they do. So frankly my biggest reason for wanting to read this book was the hope that I would get insight into “how Keith Peters thinks.”
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ActionScript 3 error checking: unit testing recommended
Some thoughts on ActionScript 3’s dynamic type checking, ultimately leading to the claim that in ActionScript 3 unit testing is even more important and useful than it might have been with previous versions of the language.
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ActionScript 3: The real syntax
Last week I posted a preview guess of what ActionScript 3 syntax would look like, based on the ECMAScript 4th edition proposal. Here are a few links to the real thing, now that it’s finally public! ActionScript 3 in the MM Labs wiki AS2 to AS3 Migration, from the AS 3 Language Reference ActionScript 3 […]
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ActionScript 3 Syntax preview
Not official, of course. I combed over the proposal for ECMAScript 4th edition, which is the target for ActionScript 3 syntax. Here is a review of things in the spec which are not implemented in AS2 — plus my thoughts on what else I’d like to see (since MM did say they want developer feedback, right?)
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Select all checkboxes in ColdFusion Flash Forms (Intro)
One cool technology, Two ways to do it, and Three lessons I learned Alternate title: My first foray into ColdFusion Flash Forms I have to admit that, while I was wowed a bit by the ColdFusion Flash Forms demos a year ago, once I heard that Flash Forms still submitted their data just like a […]
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Flash Platform Discussion follow-up — news and some philosophy, too
My take: the latest product news that I picked up on, plus my theory on why the meeting was even held — a follow-up to the Flash Platform Live Discussion hosted by Kevin Lynch (since I haven’t seen much written about it).
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