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Tue, 01 Mar 2016 02:28:00 +0100

wonderfl - build flash online

Fri, 20 May 2011 15:53:00 +0200

Introduction to Pixel Bender (Part 1) by Lee Brimelow

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:20:00 +0200

AS3 hidden treasure in the mm.cfg file. Revealing and documenting many Flash secrets!

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:44:00 +0200

The creative Flash scene is amazing.

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:58:00 +0100

The creative Flash scene is amazing. I really enjoy watching presentations from various Flash events to be inspired by the talented speakers.

In the following weeks I’d like to share a couple of videos from such events with you. The first one is by Ralph Hauwert, presented at the Flash Camp Tokyo in 2010. I’m especially happy to see the demoscene mentioned in the video. The talk is titled “Skunkworks”.

Enjoy and be inspired!

Flash oddities Flash has some oddities which you have to figure out if you want to…

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:41:00 +0100

Flash oddities

Flash has some oddities which you have to figure out if you want to have things done with it.

One strange behaviour is what I mentioned in my last post, that is, the Document class (the class on top of the stage, instantiated as root if I’m not mistaken) won’t recieve any MouseEvents at all. (If it does, please show me a working example.) A workaround for this can be: place a Sprite on top of the main class (I use the term ‘main class’ and 'Document class’ interchangeably, since they are synonyms) with the same dimensions and assign a listener to the top object. It’s easy, and works like a charm.

AS3 joy and frustration In the past few weeks I’ve been digging into the realms of the…

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:55:00 +0200

AS3 joy and frustration

In the past few weeks I’ve been digging into the realms of the Actionscript world as much as I could. (And I was never as excited about any programming language before as I am about AS3.) I’ve been reading tons of documentations (primarily this one, several times), and still I have black spots even on pretty basic stuff.

For example, take this code:

package 
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.*;

	public class Main extends Sprite 
	{

		public function Main():void 
		{
			if (stage) init();
			else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
		}

		private function init(e:Event = null):void 
		{
			removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
			// entry point

			graphics.beginFill(0x7f7f7f);
			graphics.drawCircle(300, 300, 300);
			graphics.endFill();

			addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, handler);
		}

		private function handler(e:MouseEvent):void
		{
			trace(e);
		}		
	}	
}

Seems pretty trivial, eh? The problem is that if I attach an event-listener to the main class of the swf file (as I did in the example above), seemingly no MouseEvent will be dispatched to the handler. If I add the very same event-listener to the stage, the mouse events suddenly start to be delievered.