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BulkImageLoader Class: A class to load images in sequence.

2013-07-07T03:43:00.000-07:00

Previously in one of the project, I have a requirement for loading images in bulk(more images a time). But the sequence that I am loading images will not keep the same when bitmaps are adding on stage. So to load images in sequence I have created bulkimageloader class with custom events. Now I can control the loading of images in as sequence.

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In fla file,

bulkImageLoader=new BulkImageLoader(imgReqArr) //pass the array of image path to BulkImageLoader class.

bulkImageLoader.addEventListener(BulkImageLoaderEvent.ALL_LOAD_COMPLETE,AllImgLoaded);

//when all images will be loaded, this event will fire.you will get “e.paramArr[0]” array which cantain all bitmaps.

bulkImageLoader.addEventListener(BulkImageLoaderEvent.SINGLE_LOAD_COMPLETE,SingleImgLoaded);

//when any single image will be loaded , this event will fire. You will get “e.paramId” i.e. index of bitamp in array and “e.paramBit” bitmap of that image.

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Hope this helps someone.
Enjoy ActionScript...

Difference in accessing MovieClips on TimeLine and in ActionScript

2013-07-06T13:31:00.003-07:00

I am always curious about how things happen. In flash I had a confusion as there is difference in accessing MovieClips on Timeline and accessing MovieClips in ActionScript. So somewhere on web I found this answer. I’ve just copy and pasted it here. Thanks to person “x” who explained this.

In Flash 9 when you create MovieClip instance on the Timeline and give it an instance name, you are doing two things:

You're assigning the name property of the MovieClip instance to be the string equivalent to the instance name provided
You're creating a variable in the current timeline with the name of the instance name that references that MovieClip instance

Flash does this behind the scenes when you publish your SWF to help you manage your movie clips on the screen. It's important to note that this behavior (specifically #2) is not seen with ActionScript. For Example:

Code:

// my_mc is the instance name of a movie clip

// created on this timeline

trace(my_mc); // [object MovieClip]

trace(my_mc.name); // my_mc

// create a new movie clip via AS

// add it to my_mc

var another_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

another_mc.name = "child_mc";

my_mc.addChild(another_mc);

// instance name not available in parent timeline

trace(another_mc); // [object MovieClip]

trace(my_mc.child_mc); // undefined

trace(my_mc.another_mc); // undefined

You can see that neither the instance name (name property) nor the variable to which the new MovieClip created with ActionScript was assigned is referencable through the movie clip in which it was added (my_mc). This is because another_mc was created and added to the timeline dynamically. Flash will only save instance names as variables for movie clips created on the timeline in Flash.

If you want to use an instance name to get a MovieClip (or any DisplayObject) instance from the timeline in which it exists, you can use getChildByName();

Code:

trace(my_mc.getChildByName("child_mc")); // [object MovieClip]);

This will work for all movie clips despite where or how they were located as long as they are within the timeline/movie clip from which getChildByName was used.

Enjoy ActionScripting.................

The MainTimeline and The Document class

2012-11-10T12:17:00.000-08:00

In flash, Document Class represents the MainTimeline.

It means, the Variables or MovieClips or Functions defined on Timeline are also accessible in Document Class or vice versa.

And it also simply means, you cannot re-declare the Variables or MovieClips or Functions in Document Class, once you declare the same on Timeline. If you do so, you will get the error "1151: A conflict exists with definition [name] in namespace internal."

Let’s see how Timeline works:

The initialization of a SWF starts with the Document Class constructor function. The code written in constructor function of Document Class gets executed first, after that code written on Timeline frame1 will get executed.

If you don’t use Document Class to write code then flash internally create the one at the time of compiling swf and code written in each frame will get converted to frame number function in Document Class. Ex. If you write code on frame number 1, flash will create the function named frame0 and put all code within this function. This is the flow of execution for all frames and the code on particular function get executed when play head reaches to that frame. Remember one thing here, though Timeline starts with frame1, flash considers this as index 0. so frame1 code will be declared in function named "frame0" and so on.

The Variables and Functions declared on Timeline are accessible throughout the fla and Document Class, as they are considered as internal access specifires. MovieClips, Buttons declared on Timeline have limited scope in particular function, as they exists till the Playhead is present on that frame on timeline. Document Class is always considered and declared as public to access the things in all project.

If you are not using Document Class then also this execution is same for Document Class created by flash at compile time and in constructor function of it using addFrameScript method, which is undocumented feature of flash.

Since frame0, frame1 etc. are the function names that flash uses internally, we cannot use the same named functions. In such situation flash gives error: "1023: Incompatible override."/"1021: Duplicate function definition."

However you can use the same function name except in the same frame. ie. function frame10() will give above arror if it is written on frame10, but you can write the function frame10() on any other frames.

For Document Class you have to extends class as MovieClip or Sprite. but if you have a code on timeline you have to extend the class as MovieClip, extending sprite will give you error as Sprite does not have timeline.

For more details, create your own swf file having code on timeline and decompile it using Sothink SWF decompiler. In ‘actions’ folder, in ‘resources’ panel you will get the flash compiled code.

Also to clear the difference between MainTimeline, Root and Stage check the following outputs on Timeline and Document Class sepretaly.

trace("this " + this);

trace("root " + root);

trace("root.parent " + root.parent);

trace("stage " + stage);

trace("parent " + parent);

Useful tool: Size report

2012-06-24T18:50:00.000-07:00

What you will learn

• How to generate size report of flash movie.

• How to check size of each object, on each frame.

Hello readers,

After a couple of months, i came here with couple of articles.

Here we will see, how to generate size report of flash movie.

Size report is one of the important feature of Adobe Flash. As Your flash movie contain lot of objects, sound, movieclips, bitmaps, graphics, embedded text, actionscript code. Each object allocates its size in swf file. By generating size report, you will get detailed information about size of each object used in fla. Size Reports allow you to troubleshoot and find the elements in your swf movie that causes an increase in the overall file size. Which could be help you to optimize flash file size.

How to publish size report

To publish a Size Report

Go to File > Publish Settings.
Click on the Flash Tab.
In the Flash tab go to Advance section and select Generate Size Report.
Click on Publish to generate a size report Or Click OK to get out of the Publish Setting Dialog.
Come to your folder where Fla files are being saved and locate the size report document “Fla file name”+ Report.txt.
Open the size report by double clicking.
After compiling flash movie, you will notice the size report is being generated in output panel.

Figure 1. Size Report in Publish Settings.

The report contain following sections,

Frame: This explains how much size each frame contains.
Scene: This explains how much size each object contains in that scene.
Symbol: This section explains file size of all the MovieClips, Buttons and Graphic Symbols in file. This section also lists any components that used in file.
Font: This section lists embedded fonts and their glyphs used in the file. You will get size of font, name of the embedded font and the characters in that font that are available.
ActionScript: This section shows the size in bytes of any actionScript in file.
Bitmap: This is a very useful section to check if you are embedding any bitmaps in file. Here you will get the name of bitmap in library panel. Original file size, Compressed file size and Compression ratio of JPEG Quality.

Hope this will help you to enjoy Flash and ActionScripting.

How to create custom events

2011-06-17T21:00:00.000-07:00

Hey..!!! Check out my article on How to create custom event on actionscript.org

Click here for more details.

Loading local file data through byte array without uploading to Server

2011-02-28T02:55:00.000-08:00

Here we will see how to use local files data in Flash. You can use any type of file but remember to convert it into proper data type. We are going to use ByteArray here.

var fileRef:FileReference=new FileReference();

var fileFilter:FileFilter=new FileFilter("Images: (*.jpeg, *.jpg, *.gif, *.png)", "*.jpeg;*.jpg;*.gif;*.png");

var bytArr:ByteArray

fileRef.browse([fileFilter])

fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT,select);

function select(e:Event)

{

fileRef.load()

/*We are going to load selected files data*/

fileRef.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loadComplete);

}

function loadComplete(e:Event)

{

bytArr=e.target.data

/*When load is completed. We will convert it into ByteArray.*/

var ldr:Loader=new Loader()

ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,addImage)

ldr.loadBytes(bytArr);

/*As we have now local files data, we can use it as we want. Here I am going to load that ByteArray. As it is an Image I used loadBytes method of loader. If data is text u can directly insert that text into any text box. Same like sound. If local file is sound file you can directly play it once you converted it into Byte Array.*/

}

function addImage(e:Event)

{

addChild(e.target.loader.content)

}

Lets see example how to load image and save same image in local disk.

var fileRef:FileReference=new FileReference();

var fileFil:FileFilter=new FileFilter("Images: (*.jpeg, *.jpg, *.gif, *.png)", "*.jpeg;*.jpg;*.gif;*.png");

var bytArr:ByteArray

var saveFil:FileReference=new FileReference()

/*We took another FileReference to save file.*/

fileRef.browse([fileFil])

fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT,select);

function select(e:Event)

{

fileRef.load()

fileRef.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,comp);

}

function comp(e:Event)

{

bytArr=e.target.data

/*When load is completed. We will convert it into ByteArray.*/

saveFil.save(bytArr)

/*FileReference.save() method will ask you location and name of file*/

You can see this article in FFD Magazine March issue.

}

Downloading file to local disk from server.

2011-02-28T02:40:00.000-08:00

This method is quite simple to download any file from server.

navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.mysite/FileGodown/abc.zip"));

navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.mysite/FileGodown/abc.jpg"));

/*Browser will ask you for save or open file.*/

Another method is

var _file:FileReference=new FileReference();

_file.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, ImageDownloading);

_file.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, FileIOErrorHandler);

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.mysite/FileGodown/abc.jpg”);

_file.download(request,fileName)

}

function ImageDownloading(e:Event):void

{

trace(“File downloaded.”)

}

/*Here you will get proper save window to save file. */

You can see this article in FFD Magazine March issue.

File handling with AS 3.0

2011-02-28T02:35:00.000-08:00

In this article we are going to play with local files and it’s contents.

We are going to see how to access these files from browser containing flash movie with and with out use of server side scripting (Here consider PHP as server side scripting).

From many years, Flash proved itself and make his own place on web browser.

For advertising , games ,banners etc. as the days gone Flash reached to next level with improvement in OOP techniques ‘Action Script 3.0’. Now it becomes so powerful that it can make Online Editors, Tools, Web sites, and many more things.

Some times user need to access their own files stored on their machine.

Lets see how to use their files.

In the following examples I played with Image files which is same as text files, audio files, video files. Just difference is while using contents of file you need to type cast it some where.

Single local file Uploading with help of PHP.

Here is Action Script 3.0 code for single file uploading.

Focus of this article is how to use local files data and main advantage of file uploading is you can use that local file any where any time on browser because its now on server.

Ill explain code line by line.

var fileRef:FileReference

/*we need a file reference (consider file pointer) to connect with local file*/

var fileName="xyz.abc"

/*This is name of file we are going to store on server. Its good to be known already as we need it while accessing the uploaded file in server*/

UploadBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,AddFile);

function AddFile(_e:MouseEvent):void

{

fileRef= new FileReference();

/*Here instance for file reference is created */

var _FileFilter:FileFilter=new FileFilter("Images (*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif, *.png)","*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.gif;*.png");

/*File Filter is used to validate which file types are only accessible to user*/

fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, FileSelectHandler);

/* Flash dispatches this event when user select file from browse window*/

fileRef.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, FileIOErrorHandler);

/* Flash dispatches this event if accessing selected file has error */

fileRef.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, FileProgressHandler);

/* Flash dispatches this event while uploading file. It gives information about progress of uploading*/

fileRef.browse([_FileFilter]);

/* Browse window box opens */

}

function FileProgressHandler(e:ProgressEvent):void

{

var file:FileReference = FileReference(e.target);

trace("File Progress name=" + file.name + " bytesLoaded=" + e.bytesLoaded + " bytesTotal=" + e.bytesTotal);

}

/* ProgressEvent gives detailed information about file which is uploading */

function FileIOErrorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void

{

trace("File Error: " + e);

}

/* IOErrorEvent gives Error about file if there is Error in uploading */

function FileSelectHandler(event:Event):void

{

var file:FileReference;

file = FileReference(event.target);

/*Here we assign file FileReference for currently selected file*/

fileName=file.name

/*We get file name with extension using name property. We never get full path of local file.*/

file.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeFileUploadHandler);

file.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, FileIOErrorHandler);

file.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, FileProgressHandler);

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.mysite/uploadFile.php?fName="+ fileName ); file.upload(request);

}

/*Here all the data is send to uploadFile.php file. */

function completeFileUploadHandler(e:Event):void

{

Trace(“File uploaded.”)

}

Once file is uploaded and you know exact path of file, You can use it in your Flash project as,

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.mysite/FileGodown/"+ fileName);

var ImageLoader:Loader=new Loader();

ImageLoader.load(request);

ImageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,ImageDownloading);

function ImageDownloading(e:Event):void

{

addChild(e.target.loader.content);

}

Multiple local file Uploading with help of PHP.

Now lets see How to upload multiple files at the same time.

Advantage of multiple file uploading is, you do not need to open browse window each time to upload file. But while using these files be careful about sequence of uploading.

The difference between Multiple file uploading and Single file uploading is FileReferenceList.

Lets see ActionScript 3.0 Code,

var fileRef:FileReferenceList

/*It is a list of file references consider as list of pointers for each file selected. */

var totalFiles:Number=0;

/*Variable to store no of files selected*/

var currentFile:Number=0;

/*Variable which tells current no of file downloading */

var filenameArray:Array;

/*Array to store path of files uploaded. So that we can use it later.*/

UploadBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,AddFile);

function AddFile(_e:MouseEvent):void

{

fileRef= new FileReferenceList();

/*For multiple file uploading we need to use FileReferenceList insted of FileReference */

var _FileFilter:FileFilter=new FileFilter("Images (*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif, *.png)","*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.gif;*.png");

fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, FileSelectHandler);

fileRef.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, FileIOErrorHandler);

fileRef.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, FileProgressHandler);

fileRef.browse([_FileFilter]);

}

function FileProgressHandler(e:ProgressEvent):void

{

var file:FileReference = FileReference(e.target);

trace("File Progress name=" + file.name + " bytesLoaded=" + e.bytesLoaded + " bytesTotal=" + e.bytesTotal);

}

function FileIOErrorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void

{

trace("File Error: " + e);

}

function FileSelectHandler(event:Event):void

{

var file:FileReference;

/*file is FileReference used to assign FileReference in FileReferenceList */

var selectedFileArray:Array = (FileReferenceList(event.target)).fileList;

/*For use of simplicity we convert FileReferenceList into Array.*/

totalFiles=selectedFileArray.length;

/*Length of Array is no of files Selected for uploading.*/

filenameArray=new Array();

for (var i:uint = 0; i < selectedFileArray.length; i++)

{

file = FileReference(selectedFileArray[i]);

file.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeFileUploadHandler);

filenameArray[i]=file.name;

/*File name of current file is stored in Array.*/

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.mysite/uploadFile.php?fName="+filenameArray[i]);

file.upload(request);

/*Current file is send to uploadFile.php file with file name.*/

}

function completeFileUploadHandler(e:Event):void

{

/*As soon as file is uploaded it is ready to use in Flash. We have array of file names and server path. We use it here.*/

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("http://www.mysite/FileGodown/"+filenameArray[currentFile]);

currentFile++;

var ImageLoader:Loader=new Loader();

ImageLoader.load(request);

ImageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,ImageDownloading);

}

function ImageDownloading(e:Event):void

{

If(currentFile== totalFiles)

trace(“All files added in flash.”)

addChild(e.target.loader.content);

}

Flash cannot create file or cannot connect to database so we need server side scripting language like PHP.

Here is code for uploadFile.php

<?php

$file = $_GET['fName'];

//$file variable contain name of file to be uploaded.

$finalDir = "FileGodown/";

//server contain “FileGodown” directory where files are stored.

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], $finalDir.$file);

$directory = opendir($finalDir);

//opens directory for writing new file.

$files = array();

while($file = readdir($directory))

{

array_push($files, array($finalDir.$file, filectime($finalDir.$file)));

}

print_r($files);

closedir($directory);

//Closes directory for writing new file.

Check out this article in FFD Magazine March Issue.

Experiencing JSON with Flash AS 3.0.

2011-02-28T02:34:00.001-08:00

Hello friends,

Main thing about JSON is IT’S NOT WELL KNOWN.

Now its time to know about it.

What you will learn..

JSON and its structure.

Actual use of JSON in Flash Projects.

Advantage over XML

What you should know..

XML, its structure and use.

What is JSON

JSON is JavaScript Object Notation a light weight data exchange format based on JavaScript Language.

It is a simple text format which is language independent and easy to use for many languages as ASP, PHP, ActionScript, C ,C++, Java, Ruby, Pearl and many more…

Structure of json

Objects: Objects begin with opening curly braces “{” and end with closing curly braces ”}”.

Ex. {Object}

Object members: Object Members consist of strings and values, separated by colon (:).

Members are separated by commas.

Ex.

{

“Name”:”Chinu”,

“Contact”:1234567890

}

Arrays: Arrays begin with “[” braces and end with “]” braces and contain values which are separated by commas. Value can be a string, a number, an object, an array, or Boolean value or null.

Strings: Strings are surrounded by double quotes.

A simple example of JSON:

{

"Employee": {

"Name":”Chinu”,

"Eid":151,

"Designation":"Developer",

"Address":

{

"City":"Pune",

"Country": “India”,

"Pin": 100100

"WorkArea":[“Design” , ”Development” , ”Testing”]

}

Here,

Employee is a top-level object; all other data is a member of that object. Name, Eid and Designation are all simple members of Employee Object having number and string data. Address is a nested object, having members as City , Country, Pin. WorkArea is also simple member of Employee which is an array, containing String values.

Comparing with xml

As compare to XML, JSON is very easy to use and read/write for human and machine as it contain less grammar/syntax.

JSON does not use [CDATA[]] feature to represent html data.

XML is document oriented Markup Language so it is better to use as document exchange format,

JSON is data oriented language so better to use as data exchange format.

XML is adopted by industry as it is widely known than JSON.

There are lot of advantages of JSON over XML regarding Data types supports, memory management, browser security, faster execution, data serialization/ deserialization etc.

Many web services(like Google, yahoo, flickr etc) use JSON instead of XML.

JSON ex.

{

“Employee”:{

“Name”:”Chinu”,

“Eid”:101,

“Add”:{

“City”:”Pune”,

“Country”:”India”

}

Same JSON Ex. In simple XML format is represented as,

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<EmpDetails>

< Employee >

<Name>Chinu</Name>

<Eid>101</Eid>

<Add>

<City>Pune</City>

<Country>India</Country>

</Add>

</ Employee >

</ EmpDetails >

JSON with ActionScript

JSON is very useful in flash projects. As per my experience , I use it in php where I used to create dynamic XML. But while loading thousands clip arts I need to wait for some time to parse and traverse XML for my Flash Design Tool.

Here is simple example as,

Here is my ActionScript Code as,

import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;

var urlldr:URLLoader=new URLLoader();

urlldr.load(new URLRequest('sample.txt'));

urlldr.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,jsonload);

function jsonload(e:Event):void

{

var JSONData:Array = JSON.decode(e.target.data);

for(var i=0;i< JSONData.length;i++)

trace(JSONData [i].number);

}

Out put is,

12345

67890

sample.txt file contain data as,

[ {"name":"Sachin", "number":"12345"}, {"name":"Vidya", "number":"67890"}]

Once I loaded simple.txt file I got data in that file.

Then I decode all text to JSON format, here data is validate.

Then all JSON data is collected in an Array for later use.

You can encode any JSON object as String.

var myString:String = JSON.encode( myValue );

other pretty thing I found is you can direct compare two JSON objects as,

see below function

function compareObj (obj1:Object, obj2:Object): Boolean {

      try {

               var value1: String = JSON.encode(obj1);

               var value2: String = JSON.encode(obj2);

      catch (e:JSONParseError) {

               trace('Error : '+ e.text);

               return false;

      return (value1 === value2);

It is very difficult to compare two XMLs or its nodes.

Lets Spread JSON.

Here are some useful links:

JSON validator

http://www.jsonlint.com/

JSON home

http://www.json.org/

JSON library for ActionScript

https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib/

Check out this article in FFD Magazine February Issue.

R u really unhappy???

2010-05-29T06:30:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

There may be lot of problems in front of you and may be you are not satisfied with life.

So there is a story of Bad Lucky Man, i heard years ago still remembering..

So,
There is a Man who has very bad luck, very bad means Whatever he going to do, he got failure, in Business, Study, Exams, Marrage in everything.

At last he tired to try for success..........

He decided.. to suicide. He is not interested in life any more, where failure is waiting at each step.

He planned. Taken Gun, poison, and rope.

He went to Sea side.
On a Coconut tree he hang himself by rope ....
Drink Poison,
Shoot himself by Gun.........

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.
.
.
.
What do you think how he dead.....?

During suicide when he shoot by GUN, Bullet cut rope and he felt in sea, but
he don't know swimming , so Drowning.

Same time some fisher saw him.
save him from Drowning.
When they push his chest for breathing, along with water , poison came out.
?
?
?
?
?

Finally he didn't get success in suicide.

How unlucky he is?

When i get depressed by failure , i think i am lucky than that Bad Lucky Man.

What do you think?

Edit (05 July 2013):

Couple of years ago, I had started this blog, I wish I could write a Story for my blog (as I had some experience of some stories for local newspaper).

The above Story truly gave me +ve feedback to face the bad time, so I added this to my blog, by keeping in mind that if anybody reads the story will also get the +ve feedback. I know there are grammatical mistakes in above Story but these issues are defaults for a beginner guy who is not from English Medium. In past days, some of my friends makes joke on these grammatical mistakes and they didn’t looked out the meaning of the story. Now I can re-correct these grammatical mistakes but decided to left as it is. So that now or in future whenever I look out these mistakes I realize that I need to improve myself a bit more. I thanks to person "A", who thought this story is joke and gave me a reason to improve myself :)

Load and Control .swf files

2010-05-09T00:02:00.000-07:00

In this post we will see how to load swf, how to control content in loaded swf and how to access it's variables.

To load swf simply we use loader and we will add event listener to load swf contents as:
Consider master.fla has following code:

var URLReq:URLRequest=new URLRequest("slave.swf")
var loader:Loader=new Loader();
loader.load(URLReq);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,LoadComplete);
var LoadedSWF;
function LoadComplete(e:Event):void
{
LoadedSWF=e.target.content;
addChild(LoadedSWF)
// You can access any Object in LoadedSWF by using simply (.) dot operator.
//Example if LoadedSWF contain MovieClip named myMc, then you can access it as LoadedSWF.myMc
//You can change properties of that MovieClip as LoadedSWF.myMc.x=100
}

var masterText:TextField = new TextField();
masterText.background = true;
masterText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
addChild(masterText);

Send_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Send_btn_Clk)
function Send_btn_Clk(e:MouseEvent):void
{
LoadedSWF.SlaveText.text=masterText.text;
}

Here in,
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,LoadComplete);

EventListener is added to what loader loads i.e. what content loader is going to load, not to the loader.
So that we get how much bytes content loader loaded in progressEvent.

We assign loaded content to variable name LoadedSWF.
First trace(LoadedSWF) outputs undefined.
and second trace(LoadedSWF) it shows [object MovieClip] i.e. Loaded content is considered as MovieClip.

Consider slave.fla has following code:

var SlaveText:TextField = new TextField();
SlaveText.background = true;
SlaveText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
addChild(SlaveText);

We can access SlaveText TextField to master.fla as LoadedSWF.SlaveText.

On send_btn click we directly get text in SlaveText into masterText as,

masterText.text=LoadedSWF.SlaveText.text;

Thank You,
Wish You Happy Flashing and Actionscripting..........

About Coding Standards

2010-04-25T04:26:00.000-07:00

Flash applications are generally built without coding standards whrere as flex applications have some standard.
Next version of Flash (CS5) have code hinting properties where as Flex already have it.
This flexibility allows solutions to variety of problem.
It is very difficult for anyone to understand others code. Even sometimes when code becomes wast author may have difficulty for reading his or her own code.
If a developer unable to understand the code in an application, it will not be easy to debug the code, make changes, or reuse the code.

Optimization is also one of the important factor, while you are playing with Flash, Flex or ActionScript.

Here are some useful links i found while surfing on net.

Coding Standards:
http://www.rivellomultimediaconsulting.com/files/presentations/2012/BestPractices_Coding_v1.1.pdf
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/devnet/downloads/actionscript_standards.pdf

Video:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_to_video.html

Image:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?320007-Image-Quality-in-Flash

Optimaization:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?339677-Optimise-the-game
http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/2010/02/10/optimise-as3-for-speed/
http://osflash.org/as3_speed_optimizations
http://lostinactionscript.com/2008/09/28/tips-on-how-to-write-efficient-as3/
http://wiki.joa-ebert.com/index.php/Category:Code_Optimization
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=788271

Access of MainTimeline to class file

2010-04-25T04:23:00.001-07:00

Here is code for How to access MainTimeline objects in fla to .as class file.

In main.fla,
There are two text boxes SentText and gettext.
code is:

import com.sample

var sample:Sample=new Sample(this)
sample.SentText("Sent to Class File")
gettext.text=sample.GetText();

Here this keyword represents MainTimeline, to class sample , when instance of that class is created.

in Sample.as

package com
{
public class Sample
{
private var SuperObject:Object;
public function Sample(mySuperObj:Object)
{
SuperObject=mySuperObj;
}
public function SentText(str:String)
{
SuperObject.Mytext.text=str
}
public function GetText():String
{
return SuperObject.Mytext.text;
}
}
}

Here SuperObject is a variable of type Object , which represent MainTimeLine.
When object of class Sample is created, MainTimeline is passed to Sample Class constructor.
If we trace (SuperObject) it shows [object MainTimeline].
If you write this code in document Class, this document Class represent MainTimeLine
and now we can access of objects of MainTimeLine as seen.

Thanx;
Enjoy Actionscripting..........