Overview Earlier I wrote a tutorial article about asfunction in as2. Now that I’ m into as3, surprise surprise asfunction has been depreciated and now to replace it is the LINK TextEvent. Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL [...]
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asfunction (TextEvent.LINK) Tutorial for AS3 | Flash HTML Link to call actionscript function | Tutorial
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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide | Book Review
Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser’s Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide. This book is published by O’Reilly and is part of the Adobe Developer Library. This book was a great way for me to move into as3. I’m coming from a visual design background with little formal programming training, to know more of my background [...]
Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as3)

See my previous post about how to do this with as2: Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as2) Overview Recently I had a requirement that I had to detect which version of the flash player was currently installed. This is a normal thing, we do it all the time when embedding flash [...]
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Copy TextField text to System clipboard | Actionscript (AS2 + AS3) Tutorial
Overview Integrating the clipboard of the operating system with your flash projects is sometimes essential. It’s a very simple and boils down to one basic method… System.setClipboard(). I’ve found a couple other things help the user experience though, such as selecting the text that gets copied and giving the user some sort of feedback to [...]
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Voters Aide | Prioritize the Issues this Election | Interactive Flash App

To accompany the last presidential debate, I ask a question: Who to vote for? It’s not just about what party you’re affiliated with, who you agree with more on an issue or which candidate you understand better… it’s a combination of them all. It’s more important how a candidate can handle the different issues facing [...]
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Actionscript Key Listener Tutorial AS3
Overview Allowing users to use the keyboard as well as the mouse is a great way to incite interaction with your flash. This tutorial will show how to code it and what you can do with some keyboard events. This changed with actionscript 3, note this tutorial is AS3. altKeY (Boolean) Indicates whether the Alt [...]
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Google Indexes SWFs and external content | Fleximagically Searchable | Ryan Stewart's Flex SEO Contest
Ryan has announced a contest to investigate how Google is actually crawling swfs. He introduced the term “fleximagically searchable” to be included in external content, which is then loaded into the Flex swf. Hoping that google will read the external source file through the swf. Also testing how this shows up in the search results. [...]
Actionscript to Reference Dynamically created instances Flash Movie Clip | Array notation | Tutorial
Overview: Often I’ve had some dynamically created movieclip and then wanted to reference it in my code. This is hard to do if it is named dynamically as well, such as with an incrementing variable. If you use one (or more) variable to name an instance in run time, you can’t always know what it [...]
StomperNet's Stomper Universe | Interactive Flash Site Map

StomperNet now has a site map. Only it’s much bigger than just a site map, we’re calling it Stomper Universe! It contains all the pieces parts that make up StomperNet. It links to different sites, video series, tools, and more by giving a 3D interactive space to inspect the thumbnails and click through to the [...]
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StomperNet's Scrutinizer Update v1.0
StomperNet‘s Scrutinizer has recieved some updates! New help documentation Keyboard Shortcut Functionality saving a screenshot bookmarking a page toggling the visualization toggle auto-zoom Aesthetic improvements Performance optimizations Improved auto-update. If you’re wondering what the heck StomperNet‘s Scrutinizer is: What is it? The Scrutinizer is a web browser, based upon the Adobe AIR toolkit and the [...]
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