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AS3 Tutorials - Instantiate Using a Dynamic Class Name

AS3 Tutorials – Instantiate Using a Dynamic Class Name

posted by Ryan Henson Creighton, November 12, 2008. 1 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 5 (average: 5.00)
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

 
 
AS3 Helper Class - Wrap()

AS3 Helper Class – Wrap()

posted by Ryan Henson Creighton, November 9, 2008.
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

 
 

Flash Tutorial – Pagination

posted by Ryan Henson Creighton, June 4, 2008. 1 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 51 vote, average: 5.00 out of 5 (average: 5.00)
Pagination is a navigation style where you have a bunch of content that won’t fit on one screen, so you give your user BACK and NEXT arrow keys to flip through “pages” displaying the content. In many ways, it’s preferable to a scrolling navigation, because you don’t have to fill the box with all of [...] Keep Reading

 
 
AS3 Tutorial - Math.random()

AS3 Tutorial – Math.random()

posted by Ryan Henson Creighton, March 23, 2008. 13 votes, average: 4.77 out of 513 votes, average: 4.77 out of 513 votes, average: 4.77 out of 513 votes, average: 4.77 out of 513 votes, average: 4.77 out of 5 (average: 4.77)
i haven’t written many Flash tutorials because i feel like a bit of a poser. i see the brilliant codeheads posting these tutes to make Flash do incredible things and i think “man – that’s leagues ahead of where i’m at.” But i forget that with eight years’ experience using Actionscript, i do actually know [...] Keep Reading

 
 
Jedi Flash Tricks - Sound Effects

Jedi Flash Tricks – Sound Effects

posted by Ryan Henson Creighton, March 9, 2008. 2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 52 votes, average: 5.00 out of 52 votes, average: 5.00 out of 52 votes, average: 5.00 out of 52 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5 (average: 5.00)
i’ve had a hand in over fifty Flash games to date. My best advice to someone who wants to learn the software is to get a Flash Jedi – someone you can call up at three in the morning and pester for Actionscript advice. A Bert to your Ernie, if you will. In my early [...] Keep Reading

 
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