Category: Flash
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COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OBJECTS IN OBJECTIVE C AND SWIFT COMPARED WITH ACTIONSCRIPT – PART 4
Blocks/Closures Blocks are another way that Objective C performs callbacks. Flash and Swift uses this technique as well, where they are called closures. Basically this involves passing in a function/method/message to the…
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Communication between objects in Objective C and Swift compared with Actionscript – part 3
Delegates Rather than passing the method itself to be called back, another callback strategy is to pass in an object that contains the callback methods. Delegation is such a design pattern, another…
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Communication between objects in Objective C and Swift compared with ActionScript Part I
When I began using Objective C, coming from ActionScript, I was a little overwhelmed at the myriad ways that a child component can send messages to its parent. ActionScript seems sort of…
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the trick for registering a class for shared object
registerClassAlias is a great way for SharedObject to recognise the class type that you’re storing rather than just a random object. However – something that seems to be undocumented – I’ve discovered…
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Publishing Android app in the Air Developer Tool
I’ve been working on an Android app lately, built in ActionScript. There’s a problem within the Flash IDE when publishing an Android app, that the icons available haven’t yet been updated to…
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State Manager
I was working recently on a MovieClip which had several different states, where the elements were in different positions, or in some states certain elements didn’t exist. I guess there are two…
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Custom components – order of parameters
A pain with parameters in custom components is that the order is set to alphabetical, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s a pain, because you might want better consistency…
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Custom component for distribution – live preview detection
It’s been a while since I worked on a custom component for distribution, to auto-install in the Adobe Extension Manager. Many online tuts and official documentation assume that you want to extend…
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From audio streaming synching to timed MovieClips
I’ve been working recently on an iPad app with a lot of vector animation. Sometimes, due to transparency, effects, etc, playback of the animations were not quite up to the frame-rate we…
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Spanish Flash terms
When I began working in South America, I soon realized I needed to brush up on my Flash terms to be able to communicate… Here is a list of some. Error –…