Mike Clark explains how to sniff out stinky code and write comments that count. Do you prefer write code that speaks by itself or write a lot of comments?…
Write Sweet-Smelling Comments (found via design-nation).
When loading flv’s into a NetStream object Flash seems to use a different base-path than normally.
I just started to use a lot the lessrain.lib.text.DynamicTextField to handle different types of textfields and textformatting.
There are some cases where I have to use asfunction together with the Proxy Class in order to make a call back to the class instance.
When a Class uses a TextField by composition the asfunction call is going to scope to the TextField’s host MovieClip. With the help of the Proxy we can resolve this , calling the asfunction on the parent of the host mc.
I feel like posting an example of how to use the DynamicTextField Class, the Proxy Class and asfunction in one single sceneario.
Sometimes you have to remove a text field that wasn’t created with MovieClip.createTextField() like in my case today.
Well, I found a dirty way to perform such operation just making the MovieClip.swapDepths method accessible from the TextField:
This is not new, but I haven't seen much people using the advantages of the setTransform object of the Sound api in flash. The flash player has a 8 track limitation, but we can extend the number of independently mixable channels up to 16 (8 stereo sound objects) using the settransform object.
In the example below I have two sounds in the library and 4 independent tracks as a result of split the channels with setTransform:
[flash]http://www.blog.lessrain.com/wp-content/upload/example.swf,397,123[/flash]
This is probably one of the best articles about the definition and use of Interface in OOP written by a non-professional programmer.
When creating dynamic TextFields with embedFonts=false - especially when modifying an existing project for not-embeddable charactersets like chinese - and things don't look the way they're supposed to, check the following...
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