Category Archives: AS3
Prevent XML caching problem
When load xml files by URLLoaders, they are often cached by the browsers and do flash is unable to display the updated data. This is a very common problem & I always find this some where around me once in … Continue reading
AS3 Event Handling- part 5
Previous part of AS3 Event Handling series was about creating custom event class. In this part we will look at the one of the mostly unused parameters in addEventListener method handler. addEventListener is the method used to add an listener … Continue reading
Multiple tweening problem
While developing a multi player poker game I got strange problems with tweening using fl.transition.Tween class. There were 18 cards to be distributed among 9 players in sequence and with 100ms interval. I put them in a timer and fired … Continue reading
AS3 Event handling- Part 3
In previous post we got familiarized with some key words that are commonly used. Now let’s grab an example and try to understand the basic concepts. Create a movieclip instance on the stage and give it an instance name clip_mc . … Continue reading
AS3 Event handling- Part 1
Handling an event in AS3 is quite easy and controlling each phase of event propagation is a bit tricky for beginers. Handling methods in as2 were quite simple, yet they lacked flexibility. This series of event handling is aimed to … Continue reading
When not to use a framework
In recent days I have heard of many flex and flash developers trying to make use of micro-architectures like ARP, Swiz, Cairngorm, PureMVC for their projects. In the middle of the project they find lot of management task while maintaining … Continue reading