Setting up Flex 2 SDK on Fedora Core 6 – Part 1 – Installing Flash Player 9.
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...
Read MoreActionscript Syntax Highlighting with SE|PY Editor v.0.9.
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...
Read MoreUpdated my ActionScript() function
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...
Read MoreCorrection to Object.toAS() version 2!
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...
Read MoreEasy way to highlight the links in flash dynamic text
Yet another transformTags() example. You all know that links in flash text won’t highlight with blue color and underline as it does in browser. If you want to highlight all the links in your dynamic text box you may use the following object as the format object to transformTags to achieve the results as shown below. ActionScript 1.0 ...
Read MoreRemoting Helper Component
Many Java, .NET and Coldfusion MX developers are now jumping into Flash Remoting. The problem they face when they are not much familiar with actionsript is in testing their server side remoting script. Every time they have to go to the flash developer for testing. To solve this problem I’ve developed a component called RemotingHelper which allows you to define the GatewayUrl, name of the...
Read MoreActionscript Syntax Highlighting with SciTE|Flash
Many of you might already know how handy it is to edit ActionScript with SciTE|Flash, for those who do not know SciTE|Flash is a text editor from BomberStudios for editing ActionScript, free download is available in their website. One of the nice features which attracted me is exporting the script as HTML or RTF, which can be used to syntax highlight actionscript instead of my ActionScript...
Read MoreChange Case
Yesterday after finishing the change case ActionScript for flash, I thought why not to port it as an extension for dreamweaver? Because Dreamweaver supports javascript for extensibility which is also an ECMA script like ActionScript. After some search, I found an article written by Bob Berry on “Creating a simple Commands extension for Dreamweaver” in which he expanined how to create...
Read MoreActionScript Highlighting Service
Flash community is very powerful and active around the word. There are many experts from all parts of the world to serve this community As a tiny element of this community what best I can do from my side? After a long thinking I’ve decided to serve the people those who serve the community with my tools and services to help them serve better. Here is my first offering, an online service for...
Read MoreRendering HTML in FlashMX
Rendering of HTML text in browsers and flash text box is different in the fact that; spaces, tabs and line brakes are ignored in browsers but are rendered in flash text box. I faced this problem in my reference panel application and wrote the following script as a solution. [UPDATE] included the ActionScript 3 version as well It became lot more simpler with the regular...
Read MoreCloning objects
In ActionScript we cannot pass objects by value. It always passes objects by reference. If you need to create a perfect copy of an object you can make use of the following code. I have modified Flash Guru’s clone with support for Array Objects [UPDATE] included the ActionScript 3 version as well It became lot more simpler with the regular expressions ActionScript 3.0 ...
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