There have been many projects that I’ve done that have required pagination to navigate display assets. It’s a pretty common navigation technique that you can find nearly everywhere you look on the web. The current project I’m working on requires pagination, so I did a quick Google search to see…
ActionScript
So I’ve been working on this Adobe Air app for Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine. We were putting the finishing touches on it last night and were testing the automatic update feature available via the Adobe Air Update Framework. I had successfully tested this numerous times on my computer. However, for some…
At work today, a co-worker was trying to make a request to load a file from the server. It’s pretty standard stuff, and all his code was correct, but for some reason he kept getting IO errors. This usually means the file you’re trying to load doesn’t exist or the…
A simple class for adding AutoComplete functionality to any input textfield in flash.
Silent compiling errors are never fun, especially when the only way to chase down the problem is to traverse your code line by line to figure it out… Fun times with the Flash Compiler!
First off, I just want to say that I love FlashDevelop. It is hands down the best free IDE available for editing AcionScript files. If you’re on Windows and want to increase your efficiency 10 fold or more, I highly recommend checking it out. It’s got the best syntax highlighting…
A lot of times I’ve found myself needing the ability to scale a movieclip from the center that has a registration point in the top left. I searched around looking for a solution, but all of the answers I received told me just to move the registration point, or to put the movieclip inside of another empty movieclip.