by Paul | May 13, 2008 | Flash and actionscript
IDE stands for ‘Integrated Development Environment’. IDE is the place where you write your code. For most of beginning AS developers this is Flash IDE (Flash MX, Flash 8 or Flash CS3). For basic code like gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay standard code editor is...
by Paul | Apr 8, 2008 | Flash and actionscript
Update: New version of Flash preloader component was released with new features and new documentation. Please go to new Free flash preloader component page >>> The following information is about older 1.0 version. Free Flash Preloader component provides an...
by Paul | Feb 28, 2008 | Adobe, Flash and actionscript
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. You see, ActionScript 2 syntax allows...
by Paul | Feb 14, 2008 | Adobe, Flash and actionscript
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...
by Paul | Jan 28, 2008 | Adobe, Flash and actionscript
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...
by Paul | Jan 16, 2008 | Flash and actionscript
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...