Call me lazy, but i have almost always gone with using static constants where other developers scream enum enum… ENUM!!! public static const TYPE_ONE :String = "typeOne"; public static const TYPE_TWO :String = "typeTwo"; public var type :String = TYPE_ONE; Ok, so i hear ya, you can chill now, from now one its: [...]
Have had this tutorial sitting open in a tab for weeks. It details creating a parallax photo effect using the new flash 10 3D shizzle. Nice simple intro to understanding 3D space, also some nice tips on using Photoshop for those more familiar with Fireworks. http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=96
Its been a while since I have worked on a Flash only (i.e. non Flex) project, probably around 12 months, and in that time I have become rather attached to the Cairngorm framework. So when I could not convince the client to roll with Flex, i decided i would implement Cairngorm anyway. Had the deadline [...]
Back in the day I was a web developer, but over the last 6-7 years i’ve become an application developer. As i suspect is the case with many of my peers its been a gradual transition based on self taught skills, learnt on the job. I like to think im pretty good at it these [...]
I have never really got runtime shared libraries working quite the way I would like, though i have often found myself in a situation where they seemed a good idea in theory at least. So this looks interesting… SWFExplorer loads in an external swf and exposes the available assets as classes for easy instantiation. Its [...]

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