Category Archives: Code Snippets

one of those little things that are not clearely documented or explained anywhere on the Adobe flash documentation.. I was calling a function to load an image and add it to stage, and everytime I called that image, I was … Continue reading →

while working with bulk loader on a big project recently, we were hit by one problem that took me a while to solve. the problem was basically this: if you load an swf with bulkloader, everything looks fine and well.. … Continue reading →

This post is to highlight the double buffering technique (also known as dynamic buffering) that “should” make video streaming in flash alot smoother without having to prebuffer anything. This technique works on progressive video download as well as streaming: var … Continue reading →

Reading the shared object: var my_so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal(“SomeName”); var trackingDate:Date = my_so.data.theDate writing to a shared object: var my_so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal(“SomeName”); var _date = new Date(); my_so.data.theDate = _date; my_so.flush(10000); and clearing a shared object (erasing its content) var my_so:SharedObject … Continue reading →

let’s imagine this scenario: A.swf loads B.swf after load is completed,A.swf needs to execute a function in B.swf called runCommands() for example.. here is the code for that (this is the code inside A.swf): import flash.display.Loader; import flash.display.LoaderInfo; import flash.events.*; … Continue reading →

Creating custom events in AS3 is really easy, and very powerful. example: lets say that there is a custom event that should be fired when a “Tween Lite” animation is done playing. we start by creating the custom event : … Continue reading →