Since the advent of AS3 I have been working like this: private var loggy:String; public function getLoggy ():String { return loggy; } public function setLoggy ( loggy:String ):void { // checking to make sure loggy's new value is kosher etc... this.loggy = loggy; } and have avoided working like this: private var _loggy:String;...
I have a buttonbar that has 3 buttons. I'm trying to set a tooltip for each of the buttons, but not sure where. The ButtonBar itself has a skin, which in turn includes a skin for each of the buttons. <s:ButtonBar id="bb" selectedIndex="0" skinClass="skins.bbSkin"> <s:dataProvider> <s:ArrayList> <fx:Object la...
I have a string called userEmail in my Flex 4 app that has a value of: my%40email.com I need to have an @ symbol instead of %40, so I run this line: userEmail.replace("%40","@"); But the string has the same value after. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for reading. ...
I'm building a Flex app which requires me to download files. I have the following code: public function execute(event:CairngormEvent) : void { var evt:StemDownloadEvent = event as StemDownloadEvent; var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(evt.data.file_path); var localRef:FileReference = new FileReference(); localRef.addEv...
Something doesn't seem right about the source code for Flash Remoting's Date(AS3) <-> DateTime(.NET) stream reader/writer methods, when it comes to handling UTC <-> Local times. It seems to write the DateTime data fine, including a 64-bit representation as milliseconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970, as well as a UTC offset. public void Wri...
hello i want to develop AI car(opponent) in car race game what should be my direction to develop them with less complexity because i don't have any idea. because the player car is moving on the scrolling track plz suggest me should i have to use relative motion or way point concept but that should also be change on the scrolling track (...
Hi, I'm trying to embedd fonts to use with a TextArea that I have extended using the code below, but it doesn't work. I have used this code before with a TextFlow object and then set the containers with the flowComposer, but I can't get it to work with the TextArea. When using the code below and set the text with setText, all I get is ...
I have tried to do this here http://wonderfl.net/c/9Kdv but what I want is not this but rather the equivalent of this. As I'm flash newbie I don't see how: action script 3 code below: package { import flash.display.*; import flash.text.*; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.filters.*; import flash.geom.R...
please tell me what invalidateList(); function does? i have one line of code, in which this function is getting called on arraycollection object like dg.invalidateList(); where dg is the id of datagrid, dataprovider for this dg is colors which is an arraycollection?? plzz tell me wht the invalidateList() function is doin? thanx ...
I am trying to use AsDoc on the code of one of my projects in flash. Some of the classes that I use inside the code are "exported for actionscript" classes from my FLA file. Of course the AsDoc compiler complains that those classes are not defined anywhere. Does anyone know how to make it ignore these class types? ...
i just know this is a dumb question, so excuse me in advance. i want to essentially classify a simple function in it's own .as file. the function compares integers. but i don't know how to call the class and receive a boolean return. here's my class package { public class CompareInts { public function CompareInts(small:int, ...
Does anyone know of a workaround for loading an AS3 swf into an existing AIR/Flex (Flex 3) application and having the loaded SWF retain its own reference to its stage (not the loader's stage)? I've tried the loadForCompatibility property on SWFLoader, but that isn't giving me the behavior I'm wanting. The loaded swf still has the main A...
I have a tree being populated by an array collection. I don't have control of the data in the array collection and even when a node has no children it still has a "children" property that is causing my tree to treat every node as branch. I can do a simple check on the length of the array in the children property. If this is 0 I need the ...
is it possible to read the datatype of a vector? var vec:Vector.<int> = new Vector.<int>; trace(the datatype of vec); //ideally this would output 'int' ...
Hi there, This boils down to being able to listen to key presses when the application doesn't have the focus. I've tried adding listeners to both stage and NativeApplication, but when the app is minimized it doesn't seem to listen to key events. Any idea how this could be achieved? Just for the record, I'm trying to implement an app t...
Hi, Making a flash page that can cycle through these three images on mouseclick. For some reason the local changes to count are not reflected on the global one. I tried _global but the syntax was odd and gave me errors. How should I implement this? import flash.events.Event; var images:Array = ["images/image.jpg", "images/image2.jp...
Hello everyone, I am quite new to AS3 and I have never worked with classes, so I am encountering a couple of problems. I'd like to center a movieclip, have it so that it doesn't scale. And then I'd like to add a background color that stays there no matter how I scale the browser. Can someone please explain me this in babysteps? Since ...
import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.net.URLLoader; var index:int = 0; var constY = 291; var constW = 2; var constH = 40; hydrogenBtn.label = "Hydrogen"; heliumBtn.label = "Helium"; lithiumBtn.label = "Lithium"; hydrogenBtn.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, loadHydrogen); heliumBtn.addEventListener (MouseEvent.C...
I am trying to take a PHP variable and pass it along to Flash via Flash vars. My end goal is to pass a string formatted as XML to Flash, but because I'm struggling I've stripped everything down to the basics. I'm just trying to pass a simple PHP string variable to Flash via FlashVars with SWFObject but something isn't right. The page won...
Hi, i use loadmovie() to load youtube videos inside my flash website but when i load another video the old one doesn't stop, so i tried unloadmovie to destroy it but it seems that i did a mistake in my code This is how the code looks to stop the old one an load the new: vloader.unloadMovie(); vloader.loadMovie("http://www.youtube.com/v...