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more on the animation front: The Go ActionScript Animation Platform / GOASAP

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Go is a community initiative to create an open platform that makes scripting animation tools possible for any AS3 coder. The goal of Go is to provide a shared base that many different animation systems can branch from, in the […]


tweener, js version

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Ok so to add to an already awesome day I ran across the javascript version port of the tweener actionscript class. If you don’t know about tweener they link to it on the page, JSTweener - CodeRepos::Share - Trac JSTweener’s transitions is Tweener’s easing functions (Penner’s Easing Equations) porting to JavaScript?. Powered by ScribeFire.


tips: actionscript - convert number to web (rgb) hex, and other bases

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
convert a number to web ( rgb ) hex var num:Number=0xFF0000 trace(num.toString(16)) you can use Number.toString(base) to convert numbers to pretty much every base you’ll ever need. elsid out Powered by ScribeFire.


using parent in actionscript 3

Thursday, September 20th, 2007
No, I’m not asking that question. Instead, I am going to answer it and explain the reasons why it’s not as easy to traverse the display list like you could in ActionScript 2. In addition, I’ll give you a couple options for how to get around any errors you may encounter when you need to […]


Flex Module for Apache and IIS

Sunday, September 9th, 2007
The Flex module for Apache and Microsoft IIS provides web-tier compilation of MXML and ActionScript files on Apache and IIS web servers. This module lets you rapidly compile, test and deploy an application by simply requesting the main application file from a web browser, similar to working with server-side scripting languages such as PHP, ColdFusion […]


Goodbye asfunction - ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 migration

Friday, June 8th, 2007
well i’m finally moving to as3, and shortly after i’ll start flex. the thing i’ll miss most is asfunction. may sound stupid, but this is my all time favorite function in actionscript. probably because when i first learned how to use it, it was still one of those undocumented functions (thank you dreamless). that said heres […]


Good flash dynamic buttons and gradients tutorial

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
came across a good and simple flash tutorial covering dynamic buttons using gradients and the glow filter. From the site : In this easy ActionScript lesson I will explain to you how to create professional, clean and polished buttons. No design tools will be used in this tutorial. Just pure ActionScript code! Please note that this is […]


tag to display double quotes in actionscript

Monday, May 21st, 2007
Found this tag on a post about red5 - seriously WTF is up? either search engines are pointing to the wrong page, or i need to just remove search to tag conversion. anyways - tag to display double quotes in actionscript, use single quotes to enclose the statement with double quotes


flash actionscript web services how to

Friday, May 11th, 2007
ok well i finally had to revisit web services. it’s been awhile i admit. i tested them out when they first came out and just said (why do i need you - don’t laugh). so now i’m back at them for a client. i’ve found that flash comes with documentation, but a google only finds results […]


flash, 2001, and has development really changed?

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Ok so I spoke with another developer from the team i’m on right now (seriously i’m loving dif - they rock). anyways so i’m talking to him, we do the normal feeling each other out, then start speaking on back in the day (5+ years ago). Back then it seemed most flash developers, hell most web […]