Quick Tip: Display Application Version in your AIR App.
Just a quick tip for those looking to somehow display the AIR application version from the descriptor file. I’ve found it very helpful in troubleshooting is users can say EXACTLY what version of the...
View ArticleCreating Custom Context Menus in Flash
The assets for my 5 minute quick tip talk for the 2011 Adobe Education Leader Institute are located here. This is the completed example (Flash Professional CS5.5): [download AEL2011_FlashContextMenu]...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie: Check if a variable is Numeric
I’m still doing loads of ActionScript work in both my regular job and in side projects – so thought I might start posting some tiny, useful snippets of AS3 here as I encounter them. This is, I suppose,...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Removing the right-click menu from Flash content
One of the great new features introduced with Flash Player 11.2 is the ability to intercept the right-click from a user’s mouse. A simple MouseEvent listener can be added to the Stage or any object...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Monitor Throttle Events
One of the great new features introduced with Flash Player 11.2 is the ability to detect when the runtime throttles, pauses, or resumes normal activity through the flash.events.ThrottleEvent class....
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Mouse Lock and Relative Mouse Coordinates
Another great feature in Flash Player 11.2 is the combination of the mouseLock boolean in flash.display.Stage along with the ability to read movementX and movementY from MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE. When...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie –“What’s New” Catch-up
For most of my “AS3 Quickie” series, I’ve focused on Flash Player 11.2-11.4, but really have plans to cover all sorts of interesting bits in the recent runtimes – even some additions with Flash Player...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Native Mouse Cursors
We’re looking all the way back to Flash Player 10.2 for a peek at native mouse cursor support! This feature allows us to use bitmap based mouse cursors that run at the OS level rather than inside the...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – MouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE
With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to detect a mouse release outside of embedded Flash content makes a triumphant return! Missing in ActionScript 3.0 from Flash Player 9 onward, crafty...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Frame Label Events
With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to listen for a frame label event is now included in the runtimes. For example; if you have a MovieClip symbol with a certain set of animation within it,...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Attach a Camera to StageVideo
In the past, we’ve been able to attach a local camera to Video display objects within Flash Player with relative ease. The flash.media.Video object, of course, is part of the traditional display list...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – Event.VIDEO_FRAME and Camera.drawToBitmapData()
In the past, if we wanted to copy some data from a camera object to a bitmap, we would need to draw the data from the display object using flash.display.BitmapData.draw() and then manipulate it in some...
View ArticleAS3 Quickie – drawWithQuality()
Since Flash Player 9, we’ve been able to use the BitmapData.draw() method in order to capture visual data from a display object. The major limitation of using this method, is that it will render the...
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