Archive for 'Flash'
HTML 5 Canvas vs Flash
Over the holidays I gave myself a break from Actionscript and took a look at the HTML 5 Canvas object. It’s been a while since I programmed any javascript, and AJAX technologies seem to be the popular choice for web apps these days (goodbye Flex!). I decided to port over an old Actionscript 1 experiment [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2010 under Actionscript, Flash, Javascript.
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Overlapping hit areas for sibling sprites
I have a recurring problem with buttons. And when I mean buttons I mean anything that has a mouse handler and inherits from InteractiveObject, which includes Sprite and SimpleButton. The problem is when two or more of these objects are siblings (i.e. in the same container, not nested) and they overlap, then they block each [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under Actionscript, Flash.
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Auto size button for Flash components
I’ve recently been working outside of Flex in standard Flash & Actionscript, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to try the CS3/4 components. They’re much leaner than their bigger brother’s, and as a consequence don’t offer anywhere near the functionality, but their simplicity means they’re fast and easy to work with.
One of the tweaks [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2009 under Flash.
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