by admin | Nov 25, 2002 | Uncategorized
It’s time for Director again (time for Director MX in fact!). Somebody sent me a mail asking why the getURL functions which are supposed to open the links are failing when we embed the flash movie in director? The reason is simple, both getURL and FSCommand are...
by admin | Nov 24, 2002 | Uncategorized
Both JRun and ColdFusion MX support Server Side ActionScript, but there is a difference. In ColdFusion there is an Object called CF with two exposed methods query and http. Using CF.query we can retrieve data from the database by executing SQL query. There is no such...
by admin | Nov 20, 2002 | Uncategorized
Cyberfunk (Flash-tools) has come out with his own actionscript highlighter in Perl. He calls it PASH (Perl Action Script Highlighter) and it is also available for download. You can read more on his site.
by admin | Nov 17, 2002 | Uncategorized
Creating a custom cell symbol for datagrid is very easy. Every cell gets a function, setValue and setSize. When the grid is built, resized or value is changed, these functions will be called. Message Board is a datagrid sample application that comes with the The...
by admin | Nov 13, 2002 | Uncategorized
Here is the dynamic chart example from my Singapore User group Seminar. [cc lang=”actionscript3″] Create a text file with the following text and name it chartData1.txt. I’m using &name= value& syntax instead of usual...
by admin | Nov 11, 2002 | Uncategorized
Thanks to all my well wishers. Now I’m alright and back to work. I will start posting the seminar examples one by one as and when I find time. (I have to cleanup the code before doing it)
by admin | Nov 11, 2002 | Uncategorized
Finally I received the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit today! I’m right now playing with the DataGrid component. The following example is just to show how simple it is to use the data grid component. I’ve created it by dragging and dropping a data...
by admin | Nov 7, 2002 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday suddenly I’ve fainted and after that I had little blurred vision for 2 days and having head ache till now. 🙁 I didn’t take it seriously, but my family forced me to take a medical test. So I’ve undergone the tests including X-ray....
by admin | Nov 3, 2002 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Nov 2, 2002 | Uncategorized
ActionScript Standard Library project is really picking up. For those who are hearing it for the first time, the ActionScript Standard Library is a collection of ActionScript classes and libraries that aims to create and provide a standard library of functionality to...