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I Trace, Therefore I Know Where I Am

no@spam.com (Thom Duppstadt) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:00:00 CDT

Logical and consistent tracing is essential, particularly when it comes to large projects. I've heard some purists say that your final output should not contain any traces. Agreed; however, you can simply do this with the 'Omit Trace' checkbox in the Flash publishing options. Yes, this should be done for a cleaner output and possible boost in performance but as far as removing all of them from your source code? HELL NO! Trace keeps you sane, it let's you know it's doing or NOT doing what it's suppose to. Just because your program purrs like a kitten doesn't mean you don't have issues. Like events being triggered 100 times unwittingly or objects on the stage that are declaring themselves when you thought you already removed them. Keep your trace! Just organize them and remove what's unnecessary.�

ActionScript 3.0 Best Practices: Using the EventCollector Class

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:30:00 CDT

Difficulty: Easy
Time Taken: 20 minutes
Description: In this article we will learn how to use the EventCollector class, for easily preventing memory leaks due to events management in ActionScript 3.0.

Create your own Events

no@spam.com (sachin patil) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:00:00 CDT

The focus of this article is to know about power of your own events. Considering you are familiar with events, still we will see some brief introduction about events as it is basic of your own events.

The secrets of rendering performance in Flash

no@spam.com (Henrik Andersson) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:00:00 CDT

Flash is an incredibly powerful tool for creating amazing experiences. However, those experiences are not free. This article aims to explains what tricks Flash is doing when rendering so that you can work with Flash instead of against it.

Using TextFlowFramework and associating mouse clicks with text details

no@spam.com (Oz DiGennaro) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:00:00 CST

Actionscript – TextLayoutFramework and exact location of mouse events

If you want beautiful text and to have close user interaction, the TextLayoutFramework is the thing.� You can discover exactly which characters the user has selected and clicked on.

Building a Web Site completely with ActionScript

no@spam.com (HariBabu Suraneni) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:30:00 CST

This is a tutorial about how to build a web site completely with Flash AS3. it will introduce you basic scriping techniques ike creating new elements on the fly, adding graphics to the Visual Interface and finally activating them to animate. More importantly It deals with Object level communication.

The fastest poker hands evaluator ever

no@spam.com (Alex Nino) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:30:00 CDT

Few months ago I've been working in a project where I had to validate poker hands (based on 5 cards) and also calculate what the chance is for all possible hands depending on their rank from highest card to straight flush and then show percentages for each possible future hand type.

Well, it looked to me a bit simple before starting but once I took a quick look on the web and I started building up the logic of it, I just realized that it is something really, really complicated. A poker hand of 5 cards can have lots of different combinations which mean that it might need lots of validations and conditions depending on each hand rank (I'm not speaking about few, it may be more than hundreds).

SPAS 3.0 is going Open Source

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:30:00 CDT

The Swing Package for ActionScript provides a set of "lightweight" classes for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and graphic user interfaces (GUI) with the Flash Platform.

Flash SEO Best Practice

no@spam.com (Jean Andr� Mas) — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:30:00 CDT

A summary of the best techniques used to optimize Flash content for search engines.

File Size Optimizations

no@spam.com (Ryan Schaefer) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:30:00 CDT

This article covers several techniques for producing smaller swf files.