Topic: AS3

A comparison of the output of different XML methods when trying to extract text from a node.

This article goes over the basics of implementing custom mouse cursors in ActionScript 3.0 and offers some tips for making it behave in a more professional way.

An implementation for building multi-column layouts in Flash. The text spans across multiple text fields, each with different dimensions and even font styles. Check out the demo after the jump.

I built a slider component with adjustable lower and upper thresholds. Perfect for selecting time periods or other values that cover a range.

This is the first part of a tutorial for allowing a user to take a screenshot of a SWF and save it to their clipboard. In this section, we grab the image data in Flash, encode it as a PNG, and send it to Javascript.

A quick trick for determining the URL of the page in which your Flash movie is embedded. This could be useful for keeping track of the state of a web application but it does rely on Javascript being enabled.

This problem only seems to pop up under very specific circumstances, namely, when extending UIComponent as the the document class. However, after scratching my head at this for a while I figured I'd post it just in case somebody sees something similar.

It's also unusual to see Flash player behaving differently on different platforms.

I just finished porting Matt Shaw's XML-RPC for Actionscript 2.0 code to AS3. This is a really easy way to get Flash to transfer data with an XML-RPC endpoint. Matt did a great job and the conversion wasn't too difficult.

Here's some sample code to show you how to use it.

A client asked for a bunch of major changes to a Flash presentation I built a couple years ago—changes that begged to have the whole thing rebuilt using ActionScript 3.0. So I finally got my feet wet with the new version of Flash! Get my feet wet? I nearly drowned!

Optimizations to the network navigation interface improve load times by 80%!