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Adobe drops flash for mobiles!

Admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:54:54 +0000

..and it’s official – so says Adobe’s blog (read it here). Adobe will be dropping support for Flash on future devices due to performance and a few other things, pushing the future more towards the HTML5 route, which isn’t neccessarily a bad thing, I just find it quite ironic and somewhat comical that they waited for Steve Jobs (Apple) to die before giving up their long time fight with Apple about Flash being or not being supported on mobile devices, namely the iPhone.

1180 Call to a possibly undefined method navigateToURL

Admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:50:58 +0000

1180 Call to a possibly undefined method navigateToURL

If you get the above error when trying to run your flash actionscript 3 file, you are obviously trying to use the navigateToURL() function but have not imported the flash.net library code.

The following code before everything will correct the problem.

import flash.net.*;

..or a more of a direct unbloated method is as follows:

import flash.net.navigateToURL;

How to use a Timer in Actionscript 3

Admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:16:47 +0000

It is really easy to create a Timer in Actionscript 3.

Instantiate the Timer Class and pass a time in millions of 1000 to it to work in seconds.

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);

Setup an event listener to call a function.

myTimer.addEventListener("timer", myTimerEventHandler);

Start the Timer.

myTimer.start();

Start the Timer.

function myTimerEventHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {

        trace(myTimer.currentCount+" seconds have passed.");

}

So altogether we have this.

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);

myTimer.addEventListener("timer", myTimerEventHandler);

myTimer.start();

function myTimerEventHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {

        trace(myTimer.currentCount+" seconds have passed.");

}

Now you know how to use a Timer in Actionscript 3.

Actionscript2: Split string by line length with & without word-wrap

Admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:04:25 +0000

Split string into sentences by max line length.
This uses a character array but doesn’t use word-wrapping.

var personalMessage:String = "You got this far so we reckon that you could be curious enough to learn a little more, we’ll contact you shortly to answer any questions you may have.";
_root.myArray = newArray();
_root.myArray = personalMessage.split("");
_root.mySentences = newArray();
var currentCharCount:Number = 0;
var currentCharItem:Number = 0;
var currentCharString:String = "";
var maxLength:Number = 65;
for (var i=0; i<_root.myArray.length; i++ ) {

        if (currentCharCount<maxLength) currentCharString += _root.myArray[i];

        if (currentCharCount==maxLength || currentCharItem==(_root.myArray.length-1)) {

                _root.mySentences.push(currentCharString);

                currentCharCount = 0;

                currentCharString = "";

        }

        currentCharCount++;

        currentCharItem++;

}
trace(_root.mySentences.length);

trace(_root.mySentences[0]);

trace(_root.mySentences[1]);

trace(_root.mySentences[2]);

This outputs the following:

3

You got this far so we reckon that you could be curious enough to

learn a little more, we’ll contact you shortly to answer any que

tions you may have.

Split string into sentences by max line length and use word-wrapping.

var personalMessage:String = "You got this far so we reckon that you could be curious enough to learn a little more, we’ll contact you shortly to answer any questions you may have.";
_root.myArray = newArray();
_root.myArray = personalMessage.split(" ");
_root.mySentences = newArray();
var currentCharString:String = "";
var maxLength:Number = 60;
for (var i=0; i<_root.myArray.length; i++ ) {

        if (currentCharString.length<maxLength) currentCharString += _root.myArray[i] + " ";
        if ((currentCharString.length >= (maxLength-1)) || (i==(_root.myArray.length-1))) {

                _root.mySentences.push(currentCharString);

                currentCharString = "";

        } else currentCharCount++;

}
trace(_root.mySentences.length);

trace(_root.mySentences[0]);

trace(_root.mySentences[1]);

trace(_root.mySentences[2]);

This outputs the following:

3

You got this far so we reckon that you could be curious enough

to learn a little more, we’ll contact you shortly to answer

any questions you may have.

Set line leading / line spacing in flash actionscript 2

Admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:14:40 +0000

This is how to add text leading using Actionscript 2 for Flash.

var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

txtFormat.leading = 5; // change this to whatever you need it to be

ttt.setTextFormat(txtFormat);

ttt2.setTextFormat(txtFormat);span>

There is also a GUI way of doing this:

Select your textfield and and under the paragraph section, set the top/right hand icon (Line Spacing) to whatever you like.

Error 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Event.

Admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:10:48 +0000

Error 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Event.

You need to import the Event class!

import flash.events.Event

Add a date to a date in Actionscript 2

Admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:19:42 +0000

I needed to work out a date range according to the date 3weeks away from the current date.
After a bit of thinking, I found that it’s actually quite easy to achieve.

var theDate:Date = newDate();

dateDay = theDate.getDate();

dateMonth = theDate.getMonth();

dateYear = theDate.getFullYear();
var theDate2:Date = new Date(dateYear,dateMonth,dateDay);

theDate2.setDate(theDate2.getDate() + 21);

dateDay2 = theDate2.getDate();

dateMonth2 = theDate2.getMonth();

dateYear2 = theDate2.getFullYear();span>

The above code gets the current date and adds 21days/3weeks to it.
Remember that if you use getMonth to output the final month number, you will want to add 1 to it as it starts at 0;
Example:

dateMonth2 = theDate2.getMonth()+1;

So you would do it like this:

theDate2.getDate() +"/"+ (theDate2.getMonth()+1) +"/"+ theDate2.getFullYear();

Add a month to selectable date range – Date Chooser – Actionscript 2

Admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:40:20 +0000

I have been working on a project where I need to select a date range starting today and ending a month from now, so the user cannot select anything in the past or over a month from now.

This is how I did it:

There is an instance of DateChooser on the stage with Instance Name “calDate”.

var todayDate:Date = newDate();

dateBeginDay = todayDate.getDate();

dateBeginMonth = todayDate.getMonth();

dateBeginYear = todayDate.getFullYear();
if ((todayDate.getMonth()+1)==12) {

        dateEndDay = todayDate.getDate();

        dateEndMonth = 1;

        dateEndYear = todayDate.getFullYear()+1;

} else {

        dateEndDay = todayDate.getDate();

        dateEndMonth = todayDate.getMonth()+1;

        dateEndYear = todayDate.getFullYear();

}

calDate.selectableRange = {rangeStart: new Date(dateBeginYear, dateBeginMonth, dateBeginDay), rangeEnd: new Date(dateEndYear, dateEndMonth, dateEndDay)}

hitTest and Actionscript2

Admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:42:31 +0000

if (mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true))) {

        trace("hitTest Run");

}

Animator vs Animation

Admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:51:56 +0000

The Flash plugin is required to view this object.

An animation done showing the battle between animator and the animation in a Flash environment.

Thanks to Alan Becker for this one.