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When playing with the BitmapData API in Flash 8, it was often necessary to work with an image embedded in the library. To achieve this you could assign a 'Linkage Identifier' to the image in the library and then use BitmapData.loadBitmap to retrieve a BitmapData instance pre-populated with the spe...
read moreWhen creating Commands or Timeline Effects using the extensibility layer,it is sometimes necessary to provide some kind of user interface to allow the user to customise the functionality. JSFL has a little friend who's sole purpose is to provide an easy markup language for describing Dialog Boxes.
read moreYes, by now we should all know that Flash MX can load .jpg files dynamically into a flash movie aswell as being able to load external .swf files, but as always, when it comes to loading large files from external sources, it is good practice and almost standard to create a preloader for the file.
read moreIts pretty straight forward for any flash user to drag a component onto the stage from the components panel and change its parameters. What if you want to attach one of the components onto the stage with actionscript, during your movie and have it function as it does when it is simply dragged on the...
read moreThis undocumented object is the core of the new Flash MX Event Model. It is used internally to control subscriptions to the predefined objects event notifications, unsubscribe from the predefined objects event notifications and to broadcast event notifications to all subscribed objects for each pred...
read morePersonally i feel that making the first letter of a word, in a sentence and sometimes the first letter of every word in a sentence, looks better than all lowercase. When it comes to input textfields and the loading of external content, i like to make the first letter capitalised, so i created a Stri...
read moreWeve all seen the somewhat mysterious settings menu, found in the right-click menu for the flash 6 player. Wouldnt it be nice, if you could force one of the system settings tabs open on a user? Well, you can, Macromedia havent told us about it in the official Flash MX Help included in the bundle, bu...
read moreHaving problems removing SharedObjects from the users local computer? here are two easy to use methods that take the hassle out of clearing them permanently... To delete a SharedObject from the local computer, you must firstly delete all of the properties contained inside the data object of the S...
read moreIve heard so many people winge on the many community forums and mailing lists lately about the onLoad event handler not working with loadMovie and although i posted a fix for the problem sometime ago, i found this very small and functional fix that does the same thing, a while ago on the Flashcoders...
read moreOk, imagine the scenario where you have a number of movies on the page, and each movie has to have the capability of sending and recieving data from and to any of the other movies. To achieve this with LocalConnection you have to use a little bit of trickery, because LocalConnection only allows one ...
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