Category Archives: AS3

Adobe Flash Actionscript 3 (AS3)

From AS2 to AS3 – Where did it go – setRGB

Update #1: It seems that .setRGB () has been deprecated in favor of the flash.geom.ColorTransform class. So a little as2 update. In some cases I can’t help thinking that AS3 hasn’t made our live easier. The same happened with the change that happened from the AS2 setRGB to AS3. Specifies an RGB color for a [...]

Lite components from BIT-101: Minimalcomps

Update #1: there has been another update New MinimalComp: WheelNav, but I’m pretty sure I won’t been using this one very much… I’m using this for some time now, and it’s time to share this with you all: Minimalcomps from BIT-101. This lite-weight components set is great, I can see what the code is doing, [...]

Custmm Grumm – Selection tool

Custmm Grumm is a project that I will be working on in my spare time. I will try to build a online tool for creating custom skins and modifying a Grumm. It’s will be created in Flash (AS3). The first research I did is selection, and how it works with shapes. What it does: select [...]

Custmm Grumm – The project

This will be my most ambitious project in my spare time: Custmm Grumm! What is Custmm Grumm? When I created Grumm, I had no plans with the moody fellow. But after I got invited to participate in a book about papertoys I started to think about the future of papertoys (and Grumm). Two of those [...]

AS2 to AS3: get all objects in a movieclip

Sometimes you want a list of everything inside a movieclip. For example: you want to know the instance names of every movie in the root. ActionScript 2 A little trick that I used a lot in AS2 is: for(var i in _root){ trace(‘key: ‘ + i + ‘, value: ‘ + _root[i]); } or for(var [...]

From AS2 to AS3 – Where did it go – onRelease

Last year I started working with AS3, and after having some startup problems, I’ve made my first application in it (not online yet). The strange thing is, I started a new project and when I had to make a button from a movieclip, I immediately wrote it in AS2… That AS2 is embedded deep into [...]

AS3 – take one step at a time: step 1a

I’ve made a mistake, the code I original wrote doesn’t work (I’m glad nobody noticed it ). You can find the correct class here My previous post is about my first step into ActionScript 3 (AS3) and in my case: trail and error is the best way to learn stuff. But it takes some time [...]

AS3 – take one step at a time: step 1

I finally started programming with ActionScript 3 (AS3); I know, I not a early adopter… And the first steps in AS3 are as uncomfortable as the first time I started OOP programming … or when I started moved from AS1 to AS2… Since I started working for NOISE 5 months ago and moved to Amsterdam, [...]