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Wrong wmode value in Starling

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:23:00 +0000

A common issue that occurs when you have not set the wmode attribute in the HTML page is the following message "This application is not correctly embedded (wrong wmode value)". The solution is...

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Drag and drop in AS3 Starling

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:33:00 +0000

In this quick post I will provide code for dragging and dropping in the Starling framework for Actionscript 3. I will be using the native Quad as an example. Here is my Main and Game class. package...

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AS3 Box2D debug mode in Starling

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:24:00 +0000

I have recently been playing with Box2D in Starling and could not get the debug mode to work in Starling. A quick Google search revealed that you had to add the debug mode into a flash sprite so it...

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Passing FlashVars to SWF from HTML

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:28:00 +0000

In this quick post I will show you how to pass FlashVars to the SWF file from the HTML in Actionscript 3. I will be using the SWFObject to pass the FlashVars instead of using the Object tag in HTML....

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Different font size in dynamic text field

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:36:00 +0000

I recently came across a problem where I had to display two different font sizes in one dynamic text field. An easy solution would be to use two dynamic text fields with each text field displaying an...

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Falling leaf animation in Actionscript 3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:36:00 +0000

In this post I will create falling leaf animation in Actionscript 3. I will be changing the scaling, rotationY and rotation properties of the movie clip to give a realistic effect. I have created...

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FlashDevelop not displaying trace

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:44:00 +0000

I came across a problem when using FlashDevelop where I couldn't see the trace statements being traced out. I had the latest Flash Debugger player installed so this wasn't the problem. I also had the...

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Actionscript 3 Quiz game with XML

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:10:00 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an Actionscript 3 Quiz game with XML. The game is basically a sequence of questions. The player reads the question, and then chooses an answer. The game...

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DisplayObjectContainer removeChildren in FP11

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:50:00 +0000

In Flash Player 11 there is new method called removeChildren() that removes all the children from a container object. The removeChildren() method simply removes all the children and makes them...

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Add texture to cube face in Away3DLite

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:04:00 +0000

I recently tried to add a different texture to the faces of a cube in Away3DLite. I noticed that you can only add a single texture to the whole cube. I stumbled across this post the author has...

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Animated line drawing using TweenLite in AS3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:47:00 +0000

In this post I will show some examples of animated line drawing using TweenLite and the Drawing API in Actionscript 3. I will be using the lineTo() and moveTo() methods from the Drawing API to draw...

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Tween from centre registration point in AS3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:16:00 +0000

When you Tween a DisplayObject it occurs around the registration point (by default the top left corner) of the DisplayObject. There is a plugin called TransformAroundCenterPlugin that allows you to...

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Drag and drop shapes in EaselJS

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:07:00 +0000

I have been playing around with the EaselJS library recently. The EaselJS is a JavaScript library for the HTML5 canvas element that is similar to the Flash display list. The syntax is similar to...

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Memory usage and frame rate with SWFProfiler

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:10:00 +0000

This is quick post about an Actionscript 3 class called SWFProfiler that adds a memory usage and frame rate monitor to the context menu your swf. To view the SWFProfiler, simply right click on the...

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Simple AS3 video player using VideoLoader

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:55:00 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple Actionscript 3 video player using the Greensock Videoloader which can be downloaded from greensock.com. I find the Greensock Videoloader is more...

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Texturing a sphere in Away3D

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:20:00 +0000

In this post I will add a texture to a sphere primitive in Away3D and rotate the sphere around the x axis using the mouse. You will need the Away3D engine which can be downloaded from: away3d.com and...

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Bouncing ball effect in Actionscript 3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:20:00 +0000

I was contacted with a question about how to create a bouncing ball effect in Actionscript 3. I previously wrote a pendulum effect tutorial where I used the Math.sin() method with the rotation...

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Pendulum swing effect in Actionscript 3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:07:00 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Pendulum swing effect in Actionscript 3. A pendulum effect is where an object continually swings horizontally back and forth. To achieve this effect I...

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Colour paint effect in AS3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:25:00 +0000

This colour paint effect in Actionscript 3 is inspired by an application on the ipad where you can alter an image from black and white into colour by using your fingers to paint over the ipad. In...

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Microphone class in Actionscript 3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:33:00 +0000

The Microphone class in Actionscript 3 is one of the few classes that I rarely use, so I thought I would write a post about it. If you take a quick look at the documentation for the Microphone class,...

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Complex shapes with the AS3 drawing API

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:33:00 +0000

Everybody who uses Actionscript 3 know that you can create basic shapes using the drawing API. These shapes include lines, rectangles and circles. You can also create complex shapes by combining...

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Setting up Minimalcomps in AS3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:34:00 +0000

In this quick post I will show you how to set up Minimalcomps in Actionscript 3. Firstly, open up a new AS3 FLA file and save it with whatever name you wish. Then download the Minimalcomps zip file...

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Blur guess game in AS3 part 2

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:17:00 +0000

This is part 2 of the Blur guess game in Actionscript 3. This time the logos will be loaded in externally using XML to make the process of updating or changing the logos easier. I have written a new...

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Math game in Actionscript 3 – part 1

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:27:00 +0000

In this post you will learn how to create a Math game using Actionscript 3. This will be a simple game where you have to answer twenty math questions. At the end of the game, there will be a time to...

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Create a soundboard in Actionscript 3

noreply@blogger.com (iliketo) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:56:00 +0000

This post is an update to the Soundboard tutorial in Actionscript 2. I created the soundboard back in 2008 when I was still using Flash 8. In that version I added the audio clips into the down state...

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