Category Archives: ActionScript

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  Designer Effects for Flex

  Posted on January 15, 2010 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  Efflex is a good site providing a number of custom effects for Flex. http://www.efflex.org/orgefflexmxviewstackeffects/ Here is the Effect Explorer by Efflex. You can preview all the effects and try to customize the effect options. http://www.efflex.org/EfflexExplorer.html

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  Flash / Flex application: Can’t type chinese character

  Posted on August 3, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  If you have added parameter “wmode” (e.g. opaque, transparent) into the flash application object tag in the HTML. You may not able to type non-English character into the text input of the flex application by using non-IE browsers. <object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ id=”flashapp” width=”100%” height=”500″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab”> <param name=”movie” value=”teacher.swf” /> <param name=”quality” value=”high” /> <param name=”bgcolor” value=”#869ca7″ [...]

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  Using hand cursor in Flex Text control

  Posted on July 16, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  By default, the flex application can show hand cursor when rollover by enabling useHandCursor and buttonMode properties. However, in Text control, the cursor will not change to hand even you set the selectable = false. The tricky thing is that we have to set its mouseChildren to false also. <mx:Text useHandCursor=”true” buttonMode=”true” mouseChildren=”false” /> mouseChildren [...]

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  Flex MultiLine FormItem

  Posted on June 18, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  This is a very good control to break the form item label into multiple lines. I found it from Google by Nick bilyk. http://www.nbilyk.com/multiline-formitem-label http://www.nbilyk.com/examples/betterFormItemExample/index.html

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  Multiline TabNavigator #2

  Posted on April 20, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  MultiLineTab.as package controls { import flash.display.DisplayObject; import flash.text.TextLineMetrics; import mx.controls.tabBarClasses.Tab; import mx.core.IFlexDisplayObject; import mx.core.UITextField; import mx.core.mx_internal; use namespace mx_internal; public class MultiLineTab extends Tab { public function MultiLineTab() { super(); } override protected function createChildren():void { if (!textField) { textField = new UITextField(); textField.styleName = this; addChild(DisplayObject(textField)); } super.createChildren(); textField.multiline = true; textField.wordWrap = true; [...]

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  Corelib

  Posted on April 16, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  CORELIB有一堆UTILITIES … 有陣時都幾好用~~ http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ http://weblogs.macromedia.com/as_libraries/docs/corelib/com/adobe/utils/package-detail.html

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  Flex Multiline TabNavigator

  Posted on April 16, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  Currently, if your label text is too long. The text will be truncated as “…” in the tab. However, there are very few posts talking about how to build a multiline tavnavigator in flex. And the flex API does not provide a style and properties to do such styling. We have to create custom classes. [...]

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  ActionScript 2 External Interface

  Posted on April 8, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flash

  前幾日打算寫個flash button 點知office得flash 8, 要用actionscript 2 … 真係幾挑戰..因為自己未用過8 + as 2 當初諗住好似好簡單既野.. 用external interface call js 點知攪左好耐都唔得.. 最後搵到個site 先幫到我.. 要將 ExternalInterface.call(); 改做 flash.external.ExternalInterface.call(); 先用到.. 但係我真係唔明 =.=  唔通佢有兩個api 都係叫 ExternalInterface ?!  算啦…應該都唔會點用as 2 架啦.. Reference: http://www.psyked.co.uk/actionscript/externalinterface-not-working-in-firefox.htm

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  Copying an ArrayCollection

  Posted on August 24, 2008 by Way in ActionScript, ArrayCollection, Flex Note

  There are multiple ways to copy an arraycollection .. 1. ac1 = ac2;2. ac1 = new ArrayCollection (ac2.source);3. ac1 = ObjectUtil.copy (ac2) as ArrayCollection; Method 1 copy the ac by reference.Method 2 will create an new ac instance, but the value (array) inside two ac are still the same.Method 3 will create completely two different [...]

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  Dynamic source of Image control

  Posted on August 24, 2008 by Way in ActionScript, Flex Note, Image

  In order to change the image source dynamically instead of creating multiple image instances, we could make use of [Embed] tag as follows: [Embed(source="a.png")]private var _src_a:Class;[Embed(source="b.png")]private var _src_b:Class; _img = new Image ();if ( … ) { _img.source = _src_a;} else { _img.source = _src_b;} http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000968.html

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