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 [...]
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, [...]
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