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Tutorial, ActionScript 3, Using Shared Objects to show the time of page browsing.

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Paul
on January 28, 2008
in Adobe and Flash and actionscript
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Here is my first tutorial at FlashDaWeb.
I will show how SharedObject might be used.

For illustration, I came up with an idea to show users the time they spend browsing a particular page.

Here is an example.

Open this demo page and see the timer, then close it and open again anytime you want. Notice, time will not start again from 0:0, it will continue counting from the very values you previously closed it. Quite nice, isn’t it? :)

This movie requires Flash Player 8

In your hands.

The above functionality was implemented with Adobe Flash CS3, ActionScript 3 and SharedObject.

 

You may download the sources .fla and .as files

Download: tutorial_sharedobject_sample.zip  tutorial_sharedobject_sample.zip (11.2 KB, 1,044 Downloads)

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Becoming a flash developer, actionscript coder, flex engeneer… What’s your way?

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Paul
on January 16, 2008
in Flash and actionscript
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Just want to share and wonder to hear the way you have become a Flash Developer.

Myself, I was studding and developing system things using Visual C++ and C#. However, some day I was asked if actionscript was what I could do. I puzzled. I saw flash banners everywhere in the web, and it was quite interesting for me to enter the world of Macromedia Flash. Yeah, my first Flash experience was with Macromedia Flash MX 2004, I believe Adobe was just thinking about Macromedia acquisition then. As usual it’s really a shame for me now, when I’m looking at the code I wrote that time :) That’s when I wrote Tips for beginner actionscript developer

So here is my path:

VC++ -> C# -> Flash MX and AS -> Flash 8 and AS2 - Flex and AS3

What’s yours?

ActionScript 3, SharedObject crashing Flash CS IDE

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Paul
on January 11, 2008
in Adobe and Flash and actionscript
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Recently I met a problem when using SharedObjects caused Flash CS IDE simply to crash with an error.

I looked through the web and found not that much about the problem, however it still continued to cease working.

I my code I was creating several different SharedObjects, and connected them to different local data.

You see, here is the sample actionscript code from Flash Help Content:

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Tips For Beginner Flash/Actionscript Developer

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Paul
on November 10, 2007
in Adobe and Flash and actionscript
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Are you leaning to ActionScript programming?

Do you need to write a bit more than just gotoAndPlay() and gotoAndStop()?
Or finally would like to try to make some animations via ActionScript and not in timeline?

Then please consider the following advices!

There are tips for ActionScript, though they should be interesting to AS2 and AS3 guys too.

1. Separate your code.

2. Order your objects in the library.

3. Have a naming standard.

4. Do reference the objects appropriately.

5. Always have the only one mainframe.

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Upcoming Flash Components Line - FancyShapes Idea Is On The Way

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Paul
on October 31, 2007
in Adobe and Flash and actionscript
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I’m really glad to announce the upcoming Flash Components from FlashDaWeb!

The idea is to create a bunch of free Flash Components implementing the different fancy geometric shapes.

The name for this components family will be FancyShapes.

They are planned to be deployed as ActionScript 3.0, Flash CS 3 components. Probably later we’ll add AS2 version too, but yet plan only AS3 versions to be here.

Here is the list of shapes we plan to implement:

  • Fancy Star Flash Component
  • Fancy Spirograph Flash Component
  • Fancy Spiral Flash Component

Hope much more will be added later, but now look forward to have those controls ready to be published.

Let us know if you have any other ideas of fancy geometric shapes, which will be interesting to have as a separate flash component.

Also, what component would you like to appear first? AS3 or AS2? It’s really interesting to know what is currently demanded more. Flash CS3 or Flash 8?

Cheers,

Paul

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