Tag Archives: actionscript

Jul 15th, 2010

Formatting Numbers in AS3 / Flex

A quick google search of this topic yields, pages and pages of people rolling their own number formatting functions. Everyone has their own little tweaks to their function. Isn’t there a built in function to do something so trivial ? Yes, it’s the NumberFormatter class, Why does nobody talk about how to use the NumberFormatter class that [...]

Mar 31st, 2010

Using a custom preloader in AS3 with wmode=transparent

Recently we had trouble with a flash piece for a client.  The swf’s we made would not load and just show the loading progress bar.  Upon further investigation it turns out we changed the swf to wmode transparent.  Now I know from past experiences that flash’s internal timing changes with transparent and normally I recommend [...]

Accordians and Ukuleles

Jan 21st, 2010

Accordians and Ukuleles

At no|inc we love creating online games ( check out Water Street Fighter, Cake Boss)! Recently we had the opportunity to license a copy of our Accordion Hero game to MVNP, a marketing firm out of Honolulu for their own spin “Ukulele Hero“.

Sep 2nd, 2009

Forcing class import with dynamic classes in AS3

Recently I came upon a situation where I’m trying to dynamically instance classes based off meta data loaded externally.  Flex compiles ok, but running fails… Futher investigation while debugging during runtime shows the following error: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable MyClass is not defined. It turns out, that because I have no reference to using the class statically, [...]