Feb 21 2010

Getting started with AS3 as soon as possible

Category: tutorial — ali @ 9:20 am

Hi everybody,

I know how felt for the first time that you wanted to start learning AS3! specially when you were not familiar with any other languages before.

Alright, now it’s time for you to be relax that you have found a quick post finally to get you started with AS3 as soon as possible.

I myself when I was starting to learn about AS3, I found it so hard to get started… I had to spend so much time on finding different books, video tutorials, etc… and hehe, it was just the beginning, then I had to start studying the books and watching the videos… you know? it takes so much time for you to get started like that, but in the other hand it’s good for those who are not also familiar with using Adobe flash interface, etc… in the following I let you know whose this tutorial is for.

WHOSE THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR?

This tutorial is good for those who know a little about Adobe flash interface and don’t know anything about AS3 but know a little about computer languages and are a little familiar with variables, functions, etc… and love to get familiar with the AS3 world and don’t know where to start! so they don’t want to waste their times on seeing the tutorials that explain functions and variables from the beginning and explain every littile tiny thing from scratch… they need to have a resource for them to get them as soon as possible on their ways, so that’s why this post is written by me.

Alright, so for those who doesn’t know anything about Adobe flash interface or something and like to study some books and watch video tutorials, there are a dozens of books and videos out there to put you on your way but here I just want to mention the main facts. Continue reading “Getting started with AS3 as soon as possible”

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Feb 21 2010

FileSaver Data Transfer

Category: AS3 — admin @ 7:22 am

In my recent project, http://www.myflashlab.com/2010/01/27/contactform-class/ I was trying to do a lot of data transfer to and from flash to PHP (or any serverside script), I had to send attachments to php, I even had to encrypt the data before the transfer and that stuff. having to do all these things, I decided to write a class to take care of all these things for me.

so I wrote this fine class that I have named it FileSaver! :) This class is good for the following purposes:

  • you want to save a file from your flash app to your desktop.
  • you want to save a file from your flash app to your server.
  • you want to save a file to your server and send some variables along with it.
  • you want to send some variables to a server side script.
  • you can encrypt the data before sending them out to server script.

Continue reading “FileSaver Data Transfer”

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Feb 21 2010

Custom Event Listener

Category: AS3 — admin @ 2:22 am

When writting your AS3 projects, you will need events. The main thing that events do is to help you make a bridge between your instances of classes. take the adobe’s MouseEvent as an example. you add a MouseEvent.CLICK listener to a movieclip so that when you click on a movieclip instance it will dispatch the “CLICK” event. it works like below as you know.

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    trace("mc is clicked")
}

this is all good, you have used an event being built by adobe (there are many other premade events by flash if you just check the package flash.events) Continue reading “Custom Event Listener”

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Feb 21 2010

generate asDoc for flash player 10

Category: AS3 — admin @ 12:07 am

in my other post about asDoc generating I talked about my expiriences in generating asDoc but that string in the .bat file works only for flash player 9 projects! in this artical I will talk about how you ca also generate asDoc successfully for flash player 10 codes also.

first read the last post here to get ready with the whole idea. http://www.myflashlab.com/2010/02/20/how-to-generate-asdoc-from-your-class-files/

the only modification you need to make to the .bat file is:
-external-library-path “C:\Program Files\Adobe\flex_sdk_4.0.0.6898\frameworks\libs\player\10″ Continue reading “generate asDoc for flash player 10″

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