Flex based regex tester

I hadn’t seen this one before. There are other regex testers out there but this one is neat because it helps guide you. There are examples and tooltip help to let you know what you’re doing. Very neat. There is a downloadable version as well apparently. gskinner has been an indirect sort of long-distance teacher [...]

Should I check it or not! Uncheck it, and leave a note

Since this is being developed for others, the final concensus is to uncheck it and leave a README.txt that explicitly says so.
Accessing named MovieClips placed on the stage in Flash CS3 while staying true to OOP best-practices « dispatchEvent()™
I happen to agree with Sarah that the best way to work is to uncheck [...]

More on strongly typed references to timeline instances

And this states the issue well in a short sentence. Developing for Flash outside of the Flash IDE breaks into two camps if the “Automatically Declare Stage Instances” is checked or not. The solution mentioned below is another way (closer to the way I do) to get a reference not only as a movie clip [...]

Getting strongly typed objects from flash cs3

I have done this for AS2 using Flash Develop, and something similar to it using PureMVC for a Flash CS3 project developed within FlexBuilder, but it’s nice to see it “approved” of sorts. The issue? How do you access objects on the timeline in a strongly-typed manner. The blog post itself describes the situation well [...]

Debug Flash CS3 with Flex Builder

Lots of info on using Flex Builder to edit, but not so much on debugging. Just taking some notes.
Using FlexBuilder 3 to debug & edit Flash CS3 projects « The Morphic Group
Recently I was working on a project that due to a requirement had to be compiled in Flash CS3. Having spent the last few [...]

Flex setter not executing when using binding

Good to know. And it does make sense as described in the comments. This is for my future reference and for others who may experience it.
In a nutshell, if you have a getter/setter pair and make them [Bindable], the setter will not execute again if the new incoming value is the same as the current [...]

Generated getters and setters in Flex

So for this particular Flash AS3 project I am doing that uses Flex as the code editor, I was just about to write a getter/setter pair and thought “perhaps someone has made a way to automate this…”
Quick Google later…
No More Writing Getters and Setters in Flex
eokyere blog has one of the best Flex productivity tips [...]

Flex, SWFObject, history and deeplinking

A nice template for Flex for incorporating SWFObject, history, and deep linking.
Just Flex: Swfobject 2.1 Flex template. HistoryManager and DeepLinking supported as well
I have been using Geoff Stearns’ SWFObject for a long time. I think it will be useful to share my index.template.html that tuned for using with SWFObject 2 2.1. I was inspired with [...]

Simple AS3 tooltip

Just want to keep a reference to this one
Tyler Egeto
I’ll be releasing more tools and helpers in the near future as I formalize / clean-up my existing code libraries. In addition to the ActionScript pagination system released earlier this month, PaginatorAS3, today I’m release a small Tooltip system.

Using [Transient]

I haven’t had to use this yet but it’s definitely a gotcha to keep in mind if doing deep copies and things aren’t working exactly right…
On [Transient], ObjectUtil.copy(), and Casting – darron schall
I ran into an interesting situation not too long ago where ObjectUtil.copy wasn’t working quite as I had expected. The solution that I [...]

Copying DisplayObjects in AS3

Going to try to get back into blogging… again…! It’s just been super busy which is a good thing all things considered.After learning a neat little shortcut on copying objects using a byte array, there was a link to this for duplicating DisplayObjects. Quite useful.kirupaForum – View Single Post – ActionScript 3 Tip of the [...]

Custom Flex Calendar controls

I have worked with customizing the Flex calendar components and will probably need to do so again in the future, but this is pretty neat. I’ll have to look into this more soon.
Refreshingly new Flex Calendar controls « My journey in the world of RIA
Flex is a very flexible language and I’m here to prove [...]

Loading assets in AS3 and Flash

Loading up assets can be a pain to track so this set of code aims to simplify that. Need to check it out later though.
AYAN RAY | AS3 / Flash: Introducing the AssetLoader Class
In Actionscript 3, there are many different ways to load external assets from the Internet. Unfortunately, this can become tiresome to find [...]

Animated Skins in Flex

Very neat. Very cool. You have to check it out if only to see dancing Gingerbread men in Flex…
Tink » Blog Archive » Seamless Animated Skins in Flex

In Joey Lotts session on styling Flex at FOTB (where he did a great job), one of the attendees asked about animated skins.
There’s
obviously many ways to [...]

Flash CS3 Open Source “Liquid Components” by Byte Array

I am just about to wrap up a project using Flash CS3 and… I wish I saw this earlier…
Liquid Components for Flash CS3 [ by Didier Brun ] < ByteArray.org
The “Liquid Components” have been created for the Flash people, freelance coders and designers who wish to integrate fully skinnable components in their website, [...]

AS3 URL class

Not having access to the mx URL utils with Flash (though I haven’t looked at the possibility just yet) I found this. Could be quite helpful!
AS3 – URL Class | Manfred Weber`s Weblog
I could not find it in the net so I hacked something together quickly. A simple URL class that parses an url string.

Problems using navigateToURL

Was just dealing with this… must check out!
Problems using navigateToURL – aron / philipp development blog

Hi there… we’ve been busy these past couple of days so there
wasn’t much time for new posts – sorry. But here is a little update.
While developing a flash website (AS3 & SWFObject2.0)
that heavily depended on opening URLs in a new [...]

Actionscript 3 Excel library

Adobe – Flex Extension
An Actionscript 3 library for reading and writing Excel files. Currently reading numbers, text, and formulas from Excel version 2.0-2003 and writing numbers, text, and dates to Excel 2.0 is supported. No server-side help is needed.

Enums, Objects and the joys of being typesafe

I like autocomplete. I also like it when the compiler (or IDE) tells me I am doing something wrong BEFORE I compile. Flexbuilder is my AS3 compiler of choice. Although FlashDevelop 3 has come a really long way. It’s PC only though.
Anyway, just did some reading about Enums in AS2. This bit of [...]

Enums, Objects and the joys of being typesafe

I like autocomplete. I also like it when the compiler (or IDE) tells me I am doing something wrong BEFORE I compile. Flexbuilder is my AS3 compiler of choice. Although FlashDevelop 3 has come a really long way. It’s PC only though.
Anyway, just did some reading about Enums in AS2. This bit of [...]

Pure AS3 preloader

Well I wasn’t making a game but I just went through what the author describes: finishing up the app, gotta set up the preloader. I did a manual version of this but I like this idea. However I am not using FlashDevelop. I am in the Flash IDE for compiling. I have thought [...]

List all symbols and their linkages in a Flash file

I am just wondering out loud… is this possible? Is there a way to list all the symbols in a Flash file and the classes linkages defined for them? Ah, perhaps better still, if the symbols are the same name as the class they are to link to, scan all the symbols and scan all [...]

Howto: Flexbuilder 3 to debug Flash CS3 projects?!

I have to say… if you EVER have to code in AS3 for Flash, using Flexbuilder is just downright awesome. Code completion (that ignore case unlike the Flash IDE), refactoring support, all kinds of goodness in general. Man… even things like searching for references to a particular function throughout the code base of the project.  [...]

Xcode and AS3 autocompletion

Just a tip. I loaded it but haven’t put it through it’s paces. But it’s still cool to have and XCode does syntax hilighting now. I am not sure if it did before.
Xcode actionscript3 code completion
As I really like to work with Xcode as my primary IDE, I created my own code completion for [...]

Cairngorm factories for xml in and VO out

I’ve linked to this article before but I wanted to bring up another point now. I have a good xml data set that is becoming the local store for a chunk of a UI. But because it is xml, it doesn’t update the way it should. I need to try to implement this xml &amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; [...]