Embed system fonts with Flex SDK
Posted on 6th March 2010 in ActionScript | No Comments »
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 »
Enable Quick Look of ActionScript and Flex files on Snow Leopard
Posted on 4th February 2010 in ActionScript | No Comments »
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 »
Making sense of Flash compile-time and run-time errors
Posted on 29th January 2010 in Flash | 2 Comments »
Every new version of ActionScript has had its impact on the compiler and error handling. Since ActionScript 1, that had loose typing and was suited well for small-scale scripting projects, things have changed considerably. Read the rest of this entry »
Flash Platform is at a crossroads
Posted on 17th January 2010 in Flash | 1 Comment »
Since Flash CS5 was announced last year, community has became passionate about pretty much everything Adobe has to say, recently in regard to dumped CS5 beta and the new Flash Player 10.1. Some sceptics even go as far as suggesting dumping the ActionScript codebase in favour of JavaScript over speed, an absurd idea.
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ActionScript 3 Array constructor vs Array literals benchmark
Posted on 16th November 2009 in ActionScript | No Comments »
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 = [];
