Nov 8

Use describeType rather than a for-loop to enlist an object properties.

Oct 11

In a new command line type - drutil tray eject - to eject the disk or open a stuck tray. Type - drutil tray close - to close it.

Oct 2

( milliseconds / 1000 ) % 60

Oct 1

n Mac and with Firefox you can drag and drop images directly into the stage with Flash CS3. That is a time saver instead of having to download the file to your computer and then import to the stage.

Oct 1

f your setmask(mask) fails make sure the movieclip you are masking is not too long or the set masking will fail, even if you set cacheAsBitmap = true.

Sep 20

or a while I was not able to fire different events and the reason why is because I was compiling to flash player 9 instead of 8. So if there are certain events that are not firing one thing that you can check is the export settings.

Sep 19

hen you need a visible movieclip instead of creating a movieclip on stage and cleaning it up create a moviclip directly on the Library -New Graphic-.

Sep 13

When Dealing with Movieclips and you need to access the refence as string do [instanceName].toString() rather than instanceName.toString()

Sep 10

As simple as creating a method in your class or a function on your code to delete unnecessary variables or set them to null for garbage collection.

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