[kml_flashembed movie=”/labs/swf/reveal.swf” height=”150″ width=”450″ /] I was talking the other day with a friend about a small challenge, having 2 images on stage with 2 ideas. 1- have the experience being user driven (in this case the mouse reveals one image while hiding the other) 2- Use XML for easy update. So we fired flash […]

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.

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-.

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

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.

[kml_flashembed movie=”/labs/swf/volumeExperiment.swf” height=”150″ width=”450″ /] I had a good friend ask me if I knew of a resource for a volume controler, and I didn’t know of any tutorial or code of the top of my head so I went ahead and wrote it for AS2 so I hope this can help some others out […]

[as] var totalArgs = arguments.length; trace(“Number of Arguments passed = ” + totalArgs); for (var i:Number = 0; i < totalArgs; i++) { trace ("Argument "+i + ": " + arguments[i]); } [/as]

[as] stageListener = new Object(); stageListener.onResize = function() { // enter what you want to do on resize, for example: contentHolder_mc._y = Stage.height – contentHolder_mc._height; contentHolder_mc._width = Stage.width; } Stage.addListener(stageListener); stageListener.onResize(); [/as]