Category Archives: Software

Adobe tutorial: Loading RSS data from the Internet

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Nuno Correia

This tutorial is extremely useful for loading RSS data into a Flash document: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000133.html

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E4X and for each..in ActionScript statement

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Nuno Correia

The “for each..in” statement is essencial for E4X in Flash: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/statements.html#for_each..in

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XML Namespaces

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Links about XML Namespaces (W3C and Wikipedia links): http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Namespace

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Library for JavaScript

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Marcus also mentioned this link for a JavaScript grapical library: http://script.aculo.us/

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Papervision: 3D in Flash

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Marcus has just mentioned this great link to a Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash: http://blog.papervision3d.org

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Adobe – Creating Liquid UIs

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Article and tutorial on creating liquid GUIs with Flash, Flex Builder, and ActionScript 3.0 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/liquid_gui.html (useful for allowing the user to resize the browser window, maintaining the alignements)

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Classes and inheritance in ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Nuno Correia

These Adobe documents are a good introduction to Classes and Sub-Classes: Strategies for designing a class http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000032.html Inheritance http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000068.html

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Adobe – Flash Development Center – Quick Starts

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Adobe’s Flash Development Center has a very useful Quick Starts section with short tutorials on different key features of ActionScript 3.0. I’ve provided direct links to the ones I find more useful: Embedding fonts Event handling Display list programming Creating … Continue reading →

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What’s new in ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Nuno Correia

“Although ActionScript 3.0 contains many classes and features that will be familiar to ActionScript programmers, ActionScript 3.0 is architecturally and conceptually different from previous versions of ActionScript. The enhancements in ActionScript 3.0 include new features of the core language and … Continue reading →

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O’Reilly ActionScript 3.0 books

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Nuno Correia

O’Reilly continues to publish very good ActionScript books. Here is the link to their Flash and ActionScript section: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/topic/flash Besides the excellent Essencial ActionScript 3.0 book already discussed here, there are 2 more books I reccomend: ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns … Continue reading →

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