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This little ActionScript 3 snippet will convert the system font to a SWF font instance that you can use in your AS3 project. Read the rest of this entry »

Having Adobe CS4 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard both installed is very likely to mess up Quick Look of Flash ActionScript (.as) and Flex (.mxml) files. Most inconvenient for those used to browsing through the files and looking into them by just hitting the Space key. Read the rest of this entry »

By the latest Coding Convention of ActionScript 3, the usage of the Array constructor is only encouraged for size allocation, e.g. var myArr:Array = new Array(2); for an array with 2 elements in it. In all other cases literals should be used, e.g. var myArr:Array = [];

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Here are 2 prototypes that you can use to convert a regular ISO-formatted date into a Flash Date object and then, if necessary, to a regular European date format. Both for ActionScript 2. Read the rest of this entry »

Too many developers cut on error handling by providing a very raw framework that is incapable of handling exceptions. It looks like it’s saving a day but in a long run it’s probably going to cost badly.
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Ever thought of creating a teaser text of some longer string in Flash? For programmers still coding in ActionScript 2, here’s the piece of code to do it. Read the rest of this entry »

On Flash file uploads, instead of populating your session ID in URL, you might use a specific property of the FileReference class. Read the rest of this entry »

Another snippet for free — String.replace() prototype for Flash that can be used to replace a pattern in a String. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you who are still developing in Flash ActionScript2, an Array method similar to the PHP’s in_array() might come in handy.
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