PROBLEM: Right-click a symbol in your Flash CS4 library and look for “Linkage” in the context menu. It’s not there. SOLUTION: Right-click the symbol. Click Properties. Click Advanced. Ahoy, Linkage! There she be! Keep Reading

You likely know how to instantiate a class in Actionscript 3 using the new keyword: 1 var someClassInstance:SomeClass = new SomeClass(); But what if you want to instantiate a class where the class name is dynamic? For example, we’re working on a project that has a Character class. We pass it a character name (“Fred”, [...] Keep Reading

Joystiq posted a timely opinion piece today (Remembrance Day for the Commonwealth) by a writer of Japanese descent can’t bring himself to play Call of Duty: World At War because of the portayal of the game’s Japanese villains (or “virrans”). i’m glad it was only the opposing side that committed wartime atrocities. Phew! Opinion: Why [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Fence() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Wrap() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading