Flash Art Of War

Source http://actionsnippet.com/?p=2655

Today’s quiz jumps around from topic to topic, touching on filters, events, BitmapData and more…
Number of Questions : 6
Difficulty : Medium
Topic : Miscellaneous
Please go to AS Quiz #11 to view the quiz

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Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/destroytoday/~3/jfBJQ-Is2MQ/

A recent AIR prerelease drop broke Dwarf. I’m actually not surprised, since it uses a pretty ghetto hack—displaying a transparent window fullscreen and using ‘virtual’ windows. Because Dwarf is such an integral part of my everyday workflow and it’s such a small app, I figured I could easily rewrite it within a day or two. I’ve been on such a code-sharing high, that I started a new Git repository for it where you can find my work in progress. So far, I have a single ruler working with a semi-functional Mac toolbar…

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Source http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/23/robotlegs-presentation-model-access-entire-component-events-lifecycle/

Last night, I was part of the RIARadio recording about RobotLegs. I have been supportive of the framework ever since I was introduced to it by Joel. We had an awesome time talking about Frameworks, OOP and RobotLegs. I raised a question to Shaun Smith and Joel Hooks about the presentation model vs Mediator and I pointed out that I haven’t seen a solution to the problem I presented on RobotLegs forums. See here. Joel challenged me to create my own implementation. I decided to accept the challenge and take a stab at it and see what I can come up with…

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Source http://actionsnippet.com/?p=2651

Today’s quiz is about Events and OOP.
Number of Questions : 5
Difficulty : Easy
Topic : Events and OOP
Please go to AS Quiz #10 to view the quiz

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Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/insideria/~3/qk6NNKs6REs/episode-4-jesse-freeman.html

Jesse Freeman (theFlashBum) joins us to talk about F*CSS, Flex 4 performance, Flash for iPhone, ActionScript Frameworks, and upcoming conferences. Leif Wells, Zach Stepek, and Stacey Mulcahey joined us as the panel of experts. Listen to this week’s podcast…

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Source http://www.guahanweb.com/2010/01/21/dynamic-xml-slideshow-in-as3/

Over the past year or so, I have been responsible for developing and maintaining a JavaScript Slideshow component for our internal CMS. With the similarities between JavaScript and Actionscript, I have wanted to implement this slideshow in a manner consistent with the flexibility and usage of the JavaScript version. The biggest difference is that the [...]

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Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/insideria/~3/OTe1AdroR-E/bashing-together-method-refere.html

The ActionScript compiler generates SWFs (Flash applications) by compiling source code for classes that you write and linking in classes from SWCs (libraries) that are referenced by your code. Classes that are not referenced are not included in the SWFI…

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