Tag Archives: as3
Hotwire: Quick and dirty event wireups in AS3
Posted on23. Feb, 2010 by lukesh.
Recently, I was tasked with building a quick AS3 project outside of our normal Flex framework projects. It was refreshing to just write a plain and simple AS3 project outside of the team environment where I could explore a few things without impacting the team by breaking our current project standards. One thing I’ve been [...]
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Immutable Strings, Arrays, Lists, and dataProviders PSA
Posted on12. Jun, 2009 by lukesh.
First, click here to view a quick demo of the problem. (Source here). When the lists load, roll over one of the items labeled “something” and notice the hover behavior. The problem is, that these Lists are bound to and Array and an ArrayCollection of Strings (which are immutable in AS3). Likewise, if multiple entries [...]
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In defense of AS3
Posted on16. Jul, 2008 by lukesh.
As someone who has worked with Flash since FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia, and as someone with both a design / animation and programming background, I agree with Adobe’s decision to go with a more structured implementation of ActionScript in Flash with AS3. I believe it is a strategic move to position Flash as a [...]
