We have made new screencast – Dolphin Script 6 installation. This is our first screencast and there are more on the way. Please write in comments what is good and what we need to improve.
This video guide covers all steps of dolphin installation. It is available at Dophin installation screencast.
This is just a small note for all of those who is still developing using AS2.
The complete DON’T for AS2 classes is:
Never ever do create objects of your members arrays in declaration. Create them in the constructor instead.
Continue reading ‘ActionScript2’s DON’T!’
Constructor is a method which is called when an object of a class is instanced.
Like in any programming language, in actionscript constructor must have the same name the class has.
Constructor, as a function, may take any number of parameters.
Which is very handy to pass to initialize the objects.
I would recommend using constructor parameters over calling any additional initializing methods.
Here is a good example of using constructors in ActionScript:
var myPoint:Point = new Point(0,0);
And I can give you a lot of such examples.
However, this article is about a particular case, passing parameters to a constructor of your class, which is inherited from (extends) MovieClip.
Suddenly I understood that most of the blog users lose their subscribers.
Most of us use FeedBurner for counting RSS- blog readers, don’t we?
The problem is that all the readers subscribe for our FeedBurner feed, a part of them subscribe for a standard URL as flashdaweb.com/feed.
Why don`t we change the situation?
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? 
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
tutorial sharedobject sample (11.2 KiB, 4,524 Downloads)Continue reading ‘Tutorial, ActionScript 3, Using Shared Objects to show the time of page browsing.’
