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AS3: SoundManager
View Documentation Download TweenLite Download Class I don't normally add sounds to my projects unless the client requests it but when they do I always struggle to cleanly do it. I just had to write ...
AS3: MouseIdleMonitor
View Example View Documentation Download Class & Example Files I recently had the need to track if the user has stopped using their mouse (if the mouse was idle) in an application I was building....
AS3 Documentation Updates
As promised, I’ve updated all of the pertinent AS3 classes that I’ve written and posted here with their AS3 HTML documentations. It should be a little easier now to get an idea of what yo...
ZenDoc Documents AS3 Classes
For someone like me who is not very handy with Ant build files, the command line, ASDoc, and other crap of that nature, getting a nice HTML documentation together for your AS3 class files is a pain in...
AS3: QueryString
Download Class I've posted before on retrieving FlashVars and how to do it in AS3. FlashVars is the suggested way of grabbing in variables from outside of Flash, but if it isn't an option and you are...
AS2 → AS3: Attaching Sounds From The Library
Download Example Files AS3 no longer has an attachSound() method in the Sound object so attaching sounds from the library is a little different. It's actually more intuitive (as usual with AS3) becau...
Clearing A BitmapData’s Contents
I've been using BitmapData lately more and more (I know, I'm very late to the party) and something that I was curious in was how to clear it before I can draw to it again so that the previous frame's ...
AS3: Papervision3D FreeCamera Movement
View Example Get Papervision3D [Tutorial] Get TweenMax Download Source One of the things that I was curious about when using Papervision3D was how the camera moves around and tracks other objects. Or...
AS3: DistortionTweener Done Easier In Papervision3D
View Example Get Papervision3D [Tutorial] Get TweenMax Download Source Well, the first thing I have done in Papervision3D is a replica of what I essentially did with the DistortionTweener (or actually...
Papervision3D FDT3 Template
After writing about Eclipse/FDT3/Papervision3D and my heavy usage of templates to speed up my workflow, the natural thing to do was to create a Papervision3D template to use in conjunction with FDT3. ...
AS3: Collection & Iterator
Download Class & Example Files Anyone who has worked with me in the past probably knows my distaste for Cairngorm and how I think it overcomplicates things. One really nice feature of it, howeve...
SharedObjectManager v1.1 Updates
Reader Stéphane e-mailed me last week with a problem he was having using the SharedObject in Flash. Basically, Stéphane wanted to save some data in one SWF file to a SharedObject and then retrieve ...