My Flash Lab » AS3

How to detect mouse over / out on href links?

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:47:17 +0000

Introduction to com.doitflash.text.TextArea (Part 3) You’re able to use basic CSS for styling your HTML content being used in TextFields via the htmlText property. you can change the color, size or put an underline when rolling over an href link in TextField. it’s good and makes your content look better, but what if you want [...]

how to load animated gif inside text field?

admin — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:02:12 +0000

Introduction to com.doitflash.text.TextArea (Part 2) it’s easy to load external images into your text fields, you just use the native img tag like below and it will load and be shown inside your text block. 1<img src="image.gif" alt="" width="150" height="150" align="left" /> I’m not going to talk about how you initialize the TextField class and [...]

Deeplinking brick gallery class

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:00:36 +0000

Dynamic Gallery Class. To be used in flash projects. To be embedded directly in HTML pages. Supports deep linking. Auto resizing XML driven For developers (professional users), you can initialize the gallery class and set its properties through coding. For other users, you can just take a look at our sample files and install the [...]

dropdownMenu Class

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:24:41 +0000

Totally dynamic combo menu / dropdown menu. you can initialize it and set its inputs. items in the menu are created with an xml, each item can have a different size or color or font… Another nice thing about this class is that it’s thoughtfully extend-able! CHECK OUT THE DEMO HERE I’m sure having a [...]

Free AS3 Scrollbar Class

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:10:01 +0000

I did a couple of searches around and I found out that you can’t easily find a free and good looking scrollbar class which supports Horizontal and Vertical scrolling both at the same time! so I decided to build one then it turned out that it actually does even more than just scrolling horizontally and [...]

Getting started with AS3 as soon as possible

ali — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:20:09 +0000

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. [...]

Custom Event Listener

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:22:58 +0000

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 [...]

generate asDoc for flash player 10

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:07:27 +0000

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 [...]

how to generate asDoc from your class files

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:49:10 +0000

With the launch of our new website, this site, myflashlab.com, I tried to help users use our classes with a better expirience and that was when I thought of generating adobe like AS API documentations! to tell you the truth, at first I did not know that there’s a tool to automatically generate these nice [...]

Flip Class – CornerFlip

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:58:47 +0000

This flip effect class works dynamically and is created through pure coding. There is NO library assets or symbols or what soever. you can simply initialize the class and set which corner of your project you want to have the flip effect and it will just work like charm! CHECK OUT THE DEMO HERE You [...]