Setting up Flex 2 SDK on Fedora Core 6 – Part 1 – Installing Flash Player 9.

Posted by Luracast on Dec 15, 2006 in Blog, Flex 2, Visual Guide | 0 comments

This Visual Guide can help an average windows user to setup flex 2 SDK and start building flex applications in the Linux platform. Part 1 shows how to install both standalone and plugin version of the flash 9 player. Stay tuned for...

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Actionscript Syntax Highlighting with SE|PY Editor v.0.9.

Posted by Luracast on Apr 1, 2004 in Blog, Flash MX, Tools | 0 comments

Many of you might already be using SE|PY a very special open source actionscript editor available for free. We have to really thank Alessandro Crugnola & Team for all their efforts for giving us such a wonderful tool. Long back I’ve downloaded a early version of SE|PY it used to take time to launch and open a command prompt before launching the Editor which made me to ignore this...

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Updated my ActionScript() function

Posted by Luracast on Jul 21, 2003 in Blog, Code, Flash MX | 0 comments

Arrays and Functions can have other properties attached to it. But my .toString() method and ActionScript() function does not account for it. Now I’ve rewritten the code to include those other properties as well. Also now it takes care of the properties with undefined values. Take a look at the new ActionScript() function here. [UPDATE] included the ActionScript 3 version as well It...

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Correction to Object.toAS() version 2!

Posted by Luracast on Mar 28, 2003 in Blog, Code, Flash MX | 0 comments

Ampre’s code has a bug in handling Array of strings (refer to my previous post). Since he is just enclosing the result of original Array.toString() with square backets it returns [a,b,10] when it is supposed to return ['a', 'b' ,10]. Just replacing his version of Array.prototype.toString with the following code fixes it. [UPDATE] included the ActionScript 3 version as well It became...

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Unable to *continue* with Auto Format!

Posted by Luracast on Sep 28, 2002 in Blog, Bug, Flash MX | 0 comments

Beware that auto formatting eats your actionscript some times !!! See the following code for (var i = 0; i<5; i++) { if (i == 2) { continue; } trace(i); //traces 0, 1, 3, 4 (skips 2) } If you apply Auto Format to the code it becomes for (var i = 0; i<5; i++) { if (i == 2) { } trace(i); //traces 0, 1, 2, 3, 4...

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Splitting String to Words Array

Posted by Luracast on Sep 18, 2002 in Blog | 0 comments

Now I’m in the process of creating Action Script (or any script) color highlighter in flash. Which can be used in forums to post the ActionScript As and when the user types a property or keyword it will highlight in the specified color. I’m planning to set the .htmlText property every time he types some thing. That is I will find and replace all the keywords with appropriate...

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Working with color HEX & RGB

Posted by Luracast on Sep 18, 2002 in Blog | 0 comments

If you need to convert color values between RGB and HEX you will find the following functions useful. Original post had only ActionScript 1 version and now I have updated it to add ActionScript 3 version as well ActionScript 3.0 ActionScript 1.0 package com.luracast { /** * Set of funtions for handling color values in different format ...

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