AS2 Best practices
OnRelease in Event in AS2 and AS3
hitTest Method of movieclip
Flash debug player installation
http://blog.hydrotik.com/2007/10/01/as3-useful-little-things/
Conventions:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions
usefull downloads: http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php
Good Tutorials:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
Vector,Metrics 3D classes in CS4? used in
globe:
preloader
disable right click with javascript and AS3
Code: http://www.uza.lt/blog/2007/08/solved-right-click-in-as3/
Adjust on resize
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onResize, false, 0, true);
//assuming that eh main movieclip is having 3 childs
1.header
2.footer
3.view: main content area which holds all other children in the page
public function resize(e:Event = null):void {
if (view.numChildren > 0) {
Page(view.getChildAt(0)).resize();
}
header.resize();
footer.resize();
footer.y = stage.stageHeight - footer.defaultHeight + 1;
}
loading and resizing display area with javascript and using asual classes
<script src="js/swfobject.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="js/swfaddress.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var size = getViewportSize();
function getViewportSize()
{
var size = [0, 0];
if (typeof window.innerWidth != "undefined") {
size = [window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight];
}
else if (typeof document.documentElement != "undefined" && typeof document.documentElement.clientWidth != "undefined" && document.documentElement.clientWidth != 0) {
size = [document.documentElement.clientWidth, document.documentElement.clientHeight];
}
else {
size = [document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].clientWidth, document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].clientHeight];
}
return size;
}
function createFullBrowserFlash()
{
// swfobject.createCSS("window", "overflow:auto;");
swfobject.createCSS("html", "height:100%; margin:0; padding:0;");
swfobject.createCSS("body", "height:100%; margin:0; padding:0;");
swfobject.createCSS("#flash", "margin:0; width:100%; height:100%; min-width:1024px; min-height:786px; display:block;");
window.onresize = function() {
var el = document.getElementById("flash");
var size = getViewportSize();
el.style.width = size[0] < 986 ? "1024px" : "100%";
el.style.height = size[1] < 800 ? "786px" : "100%";
};
window.onresize();
}
function setHeight( h )
{
if ( h < size[1] ) h = "100%";
var el = document.getElementById("flash");
if ( h != "100%" ) el.style.height = h < 786 ? "786px" : h + "px";
else el.style.height = "100%";
}
//bgcolor: "#513e2c",
var params = {
quality: "high",
scale: "noscale",
wmode: "window",
allowscriptaccess: "always",
bgcolor: "#513e2c",
allowFullScreen: "true"
};
var flashvars = {
controllerPath:"swf/THLM-THLM.swf",
totalExternalBytes:"7278224"//"3911744"
};
var attributes = {id:"flash"};
swfobject.embedSWF("Preloader.swf", "flashcontent", "400", "400", "10.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);
if (swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion("10.0.0")) {
swfobject.addDomLoadEvent( createFullBrowserFlash );
}
</script>
asual Deeplinking with.htaccess,setting page title,changing url in addressbar thereby enabling SEF pages in flash sites
changing url path in address bar
SWFAddress.onChange = goto;///this is setting event listener,inside go to function we must write code to load the xhtml file in the relative url set as follows
SWFAddress.setvalue('relative url');
if it is an absolute url(starting with http)write it as following in goto function
if(linkToGo.substr(0,5) == "/http")
{
GlobalVars.getURLFromMain(new URLRequest(SWFAddress.getValue()));
return;
}
Textfield cursor and string insetrtion
first stage.focus = activeTextRef;
private function insertCharAtCursor(stringToInsert)
{
var activeTextRef = _base.txtEmail;
var cusrsorPos = activeTextRef.caretIndex;
//trace("cusrsorPos = "+ cusrsorPos);
var mainString:String = activeTextRef.text;
var fstring = mainString.slice(0,cusrsorPos);
var lstring = mainString.slice(cusrsorPos,mainString.length);
if(stringToInsert == 'backSpace')
{
if(cusrsorPos >0)
{
fstring = mainString.slice(0,cusrsorPos - 1);
if(cusrsorPos < mainString.length)
{
lstring = mainString.slice(cusrsorPos,mainString.length);
}
else
{
lstring = '';
}
}
stringToInsert = '';
}
//activeTextRef.text += stringToInsert;
activeTextRef.text = fstring + stringToInsert + lstring
/*if(!_base.mouseClickedOnTextbox)
{
activeTextRef.setSelection(activeTextRef.text.length,activeTextRef.text.length);
}
else*/
{
var midstring:String = fstring + stringToInsert
var newCaretPos = midstring.length;
activeTextRef.setSelection(newCaretPos,newCaretPos);
}
}
Masking Options
gradient maskwith alpha channel? <a href="http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.180">http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.180</a>
Options Presentation
Menu
Accordion
Slider(easing scrollbar)
Context menu
Skinning
Skinning Controls
Text format
Applying CSS in textfields
Transitions
"Masking Options
(gradient,solid)"
Slideshow
flip
sample1 ,
carousal:
gotoandlearn
Gallery
accordion
Audio Player :
Sound Object , Sound channel ,load,close,play,stop
Video Player
Movement
Circlular(with sin and cos)
3d movement(Cube,papervision)
Sine wave type
Zigzag
Drawing:
Actionscript movieclip.transform.matrix
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/3dindex.htm
Simple 3D Drawing in Flash CS3
3dpicturebox.fla
Frontend (inbrowser)Communication
Js communication
Flash to flash communication in same browser page
Flash to Backend Communication
"XML handling"
loadvars
JSON
AMFPHP
FMS
basic functions
call function in serer from client
call function in client from serer
checking bandwidth
shared object
User interaction(chat)
whiteboard
Online teaching
Extending Flash
Creating And Deploying Component
Creating And Deploying flash Extensions
changin color of movieclips
AS2
var c:Color = new Color(box_mc);
c.setRGB(Math.random() * 0xFFFFFF);
AS3
var c:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
c.color = (Math.random() * 0xFFFFFF);
box_mc.transform.colorTransform = c;
