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Add Mask to Display List when using StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL

nuthman — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:11:50 +0000

TweetI spent a few hours going nuts with this one today, so save yourself some time by reading this post. Suppose that you have some content that you want to scale when the flash player is re-sized. Suppose also that you have added this line in order to accomplish it: 1stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL; Now imagine [...]

How to Remove Spaces from a String

nuthman — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:54:07 +0000

TweetRemoving spaces from a string is really easy in Actionscript 3. One method is to simply convert the string to an array using the String.split() function using a space as the delimiter. Then you can use the Array.join function to put it all back together again without the spaces. Here is a simple function that [...]

Comic-Con 2011 Can Kiss My Ass

nuthman — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:05:07 +0000

TweetI realize that this is completely off subject, but I am so pissed at Comic-con that I must rant. First of all, there are just too many people, period. I went to the convention for the first time about 4 years ago, and there were a lot of people then. I had no problems getting [...]

A Simple Pause Function in Actionscript 3

nuthman — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:38:22 +0000

TweetJust a quick function that you can use in your library of tricks to simulate pausing in Actionscript 3. 1234567891011public static function pause(timeInSeconds:int, functionToCall:Function):void { var timer:Timer = new Timer(timeInSeconds * 1000); timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, callFunction, false, 0, true); timer.start(); function callFunction(event:TimerEvent):void { timer.stop(); [...]

Adjust Global Sound Volume in Actionscript 3

nuthman — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:20:52 +0000

TweetThere is a simple way to adjust all global sound in Actionscript 3. This encompasses all playing loops, sound effects and such. All you need is the following code: 12345import flash.media.SoundMixer; import flash.media.SoundTransform; // volume limits are 0 to 1 (0.1,0.2,0.3,...,1) SoundMixer.soundTransform = new SoundTransform(0); Of course change the number sent to the SoundTransform constructor [...]

Create a Compiled Clip to Reduce Clutter in Flash

nuthman — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:50:31 +0000

TweetSometimes when you are delivered an animation to put into your flash project, it contains quite a lot of messiness in the library. A quick way to resolve that issues is to make a ‘compiled clip’ before adding the animation to your project. First, open the project with the animation in it and select the [...]

Find Hidden Malicious Code In Your Website

nuthman — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:43:06 +0000

TweetThis is a little off the subject of Actionscript 3, but I think it’s an important little trick to know for anyone building content for the web. So here I am going to show a quick php snippet that will find hidden malicious code in your website, or more specifically, how to find hidden ‘strings’ [...]

Site optimized for non-IE browsers

nuthman — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:54:44 +0000

TweetI just wanted to leave a little note to let everyone know that this site is optimized for browsers that are NOT Internet Explorer. If you are using IE and notice weird things happening on my blog, well, they will not be fixed. I spend a GREAT deal of my working days hacking css on [...]

Solitaire Chess Flash Actionscript Demo

nuthman — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:37:53 +0000

TweetJust thought I’d share a demo game that I built for ThinkFun in Actionscript 3. I had a lot of fun with this one!

How to ‘smooth’ an FLV / F4V video for Scaling

nuthman — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:31:54 +0000

TweetHave you noticed that your embedded Flash video looks like crap if you scale your flash file up or down? A lot of people don’t realize this, but you can actually apply smoothing to flash video, just as you can to a bitmap image. All you have to do is apply the following Actionscript 3 [...]