Category Archives: ActionScript

Quick Tip: Display Application Version in your AIR App.

Just a quick tip for those looking to somehow display the AIR application version from the descriptor file. I’ve found it very helpful in troubleshooting is users can say EXACTLY what version of the app they are running. 1 2 … Continue reading

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Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 3

This is the final post in a three part tutorial detailing the creation of a Flash slideshow widget using ActionScript 3.0. Have a look over Part 1 and Part 2 before moving ahead. In this post, we are examining the … Continue reading

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Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 2

In Part 1, we had a look at the basic structure of what we are working toward, including a PHP file to read images from a directory and return a list of images to Flash, the setup of our FLA, … Continue reading

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Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 1

This is a simple example of how to build a dynamic slideshow widget in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 such as the one seen here. The first thing you’ll need to do is set up an FLA with the properties you’d … Continue reading

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Testing Flash Projects w/ Dynamic Variables

Many of the Flash modules and widgets I write are part of a larger system. Normally, some sort of ID or other variable piece of data will need to be passed in as flashvars upon initialization to allow the SWF … Continue reading

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