While setting up an AIR Application which asks for User-Interaction by Keyboard, i was surprised, that Keyboard-Interactions are not allowed in regular Fullscreen Mode.
After looking up in the documentation i found :
stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
This “Specifies that the Stage is in full-screen mode with keyboard interactivity enabled.”
Something i want to keep in mind, since FullScreen did not mean “no interactions by keyboard” to me!
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During a Project i needed a method which shuffles a Vector. Since i could not find an implemented shuffle() function i remembered how PHP works with sort-functions and came up with this really simple comparison function:
package de.patricktresp.util { /** * @author patricktresp */ public class VectorUtil { public static function shuffleVector( a : Object, b : Object ) : int { // HIDE FDT WARNINGS a; b; return Math.floor( Math.random() * 3 - 1 ); } } }
So whenever needed i just go:
vector.sort( VectorUtil.shuffleVector );
This works fine for now, but i am very sure there is some more efficient and faster methods.
Suggestions are appreciated.
Read MoreAnother FFK ( Flash Forum Konferenz ) / beyondtellerrand has passed and left me with new inspirations on how i want to work on and what i want to work on in the future.
Find some interesting Ressources here:
FDT
Molehill
JavaScript
The conference hat obviously more topics than listet before but these are the resources i will need to use in the future.
I am very curious, how molehill will affect the complete Flash importance in the web.
Thanks FFK11!
Read MoreWhen having an external SWF file which needs to be tweened in frames ( e.g. multiple buttons to control the position of swf file ) it always throws performance issues while tweening a frame which is before the current frame ( meaning: reverse tweens ).
After some research i thankfully found following way to force a tween to play forward and loop to reach the desired frame. ( e.g. movie with totalframes 100 is at frame 50, button action: tween to frame 10 )
I was really glad i found this!
TweenLite is downloadable at : http://www.greensock.com/
// header import com.greensock.TweenLite; import com.greensock.plugins.*; // function TweenPlugin.activate( [ FramePlugin ] ); TweenPlugin.activate( [ FrameForwardPlugin ] ); var frameForward : uint = 10; var time: Number = 1; var _animation : Sprite = getChildByname("animation"); TweenLite.to( _animation, time, { frameForward:targetFrame, ease:"easeInOutExpo" } );
During a Project which had to handle large amounts of BitmapData-Objects i had problems in displaying dynamically created TextFields in the DisplayList. TextFields were not visible on stage, even though the properties were all correct.
Surpisingly i could add other Bitmap-Objects, which are displayed correct, so i used this workaround:
// note: Application.getInstance().getTextFieldTextBounds( textField ) returns the correct amount of space taken from the textField according to http://blog.derraab.com/2010/05/16/aligning-flash-textfield-instances-visually-correct/ // create new BitmapData Object using the TextFields bounds and use alpha values var bm : BitmapData = new BitmapData( Application.getInstance().getTextFieldTextBounds( tf ).width + 20, Application.getInstance().getTextFieldTextBounds( tf ).height + 20, true, 0x00000000 ); // take a SnapShot of the TextField bm.draw( tf ); // create new Bitmap Object var bitmap : Bitmap = new Bitmap( bm ); bitmap.x = tf.x; bitmap.y = tf.y; // deleting the reference TextField tf = null; // adding new Bitmap to a Sprite s.addChild( bitmap );
Just a try to use WP-Syntax available at the Plugins page…
ActionScript Code Snippet Test
public static function getSquareButton( width : uint, height : uint, color : uint ) : Sprite { var s : Sprite = new Sprite(); s.graphics.beginFill( color ); s.graphics.drawRect( 0, 0, width, height ); s.graphics.endFill(); return s; }