Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Back in time I used Sepy as a texteditor as an alternative to the Flash IDE Non-Code-Editor.
Now my snappy editor of choice is FlashDevelop, totally tailored towards Flex SDK publishing.
In Sepy I had a nice dark background theme, but since the switch to FD I never took the time to ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Super nice article on how to create a compiletime conditional switch for for ex. calling an alternate version of the same function or adding compiletime var-values at with the flex sdk command line
http://code.awenmedia.com/node/34
Code examples from his site:
ADDING COMPILETIME VARS:
mxmlc MyConfigClass.as -define+=CONFIG::someSetting,true
or
...-define+=CONFIG::myString,"'Hello!'" -define+=CONFIG::myNumber,"7"
for someSetting the AS3 class would be:
package {
public class ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
To obtain focus on a textfield with a custom textformat on it can give you headaches:
From wrong caret color to disapaering textcontent when you use tab button to unselectable text content.
You just keep fumbling around with _Textfield.stage.focus = _Textfield without joy.
I lost several hours to get the caret blinking ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Step 1: Create ant-build Folder in your project
Right click on your project name and click New.. Folder...
For the sake of the example, call the folder "ant-build".
Copy the lib folder from Adobe's flex_ant_tasks_mmddyy.zip to this new folder. The jar file in this lib directory can really go anywhere ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
How to add an AS3 preloader on frame 1 and bind it with a light BootPreloader Class?
Especially nice if you use the flex sdk compiler without flash IDE.
as simple as this:
In your documentClass:
place this underneath your imports and above your myDocumentClass(){} declaration:
[ftf h="140" w="680"][SWF( backgroundColor='0xff0000', frameRate='30', width='980', height='320')]
//alternative factoryClass / ...
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