I spent a few hours going nuts with this one today, so save yourself some time by reading this post. Suppose that you have some content that you want to scale when the flash player is re-sized. Suppose also that you have added this line in order to accomplish it:
Archive for the ‘Nuts & Bolts’ Category
How to Remove Spaces from a String
August 4th, 2011 No Comments
Removing spaces from a string is really easy in Actionscript 3. One method is to simply convert the string to an array using the String.split() function using a space as the delimiter. Then you can use the Array.join function to put it all back together again without the spaces.
A Simple Pause Function in Actionscript 3
June 1st, 2011 No Comments
Just a quick function that you can use in your library of tricks to simulate pausing in Actionscript 3.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | public static function pause(timeInSeconds:int, functionToCall:Function):void { var timer:Timer = new Timer(timeInSeconds * 1000); timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, callFunction, false, 0, true); timer.start(); function callFunction(event:TimerEvent):void { timer.stop(); timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, callFunction); timer = null; functionToCall(); } } |
The function takes 2 arguments:
timeInSeconds – how many seconds to wait before calling the function
functionToCall – the function to call after the given time has passed
Create a Compiled Clip to Reduce Clutter in Flash
April 14th, 2011 No Comments
Sometimes when you are delivered an animation to put into your flash project, it contains quite a lot of messiness in the library.
A quick way to resolve that issues is to make a ‘compiled clip’ before adding the animation to your project.
How to ‘smooth’ an FLV / F4V video for Scaling
January 18th, 2011 No Comments
Have you noticed that your embedded Flash video looks like crap if you scale your flash file up or down?
A lot of people don’t realize this, but you can actually apply smoothing to flash video, just as you can to a bitmap image.
