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(HTML) HTML5 Scrollbar Percentage Position using JavaScript - adrianparr

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:36:57 UTC

This JavaScript gets you the percentage position of the browser's scrollbar.

(CSS) CSS @font-face Example - adrianparr

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:51:39 UTC

Font Squirrel is a great place to convert your fonts to the different formats required. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Drawing Shapes (ARC, BURST, DASHED-LINE, GEAR, POLYGON, STAR, WEDGE, LINE) - adrianparr

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:45:24 UTC

Credit for this goes to Adobe, Ric Ewing, Kevin Williams, Aden Forshaw and Sidney de Koning.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Remove Tabs and NewLine Characters - adrianparr

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:30:41 UTC

If you load text in from an XML file that is wrapped in CDATA tags using 'XML.ignoreWhitespace = true' does not work. This function removes the tabs and linebreaks. To have linebreaks use '
' tags.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 MathUtils static class - adrianparr

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:56:19 UTC

Credit goes to Bruno Imbrizi.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Map a Number within one range to another range - adrianparr

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:53:34 UTC

Credit goes to Bruno Imbrizi.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Click-and-Rotate Content - adrianparr

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:47:01 UTC

This code is taken from David Stiller's post on the CommunityMX website. All credit goes to him.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 getVisibleBounds - adrianparr

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:09:35 UTC

All credit for this goes to Zach Foley (aka Plastic Sturgeon)

(jQuery) jQuery Basic Setup - adrianparr

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:58:06 UTC

Basic setup code for jQuery, linking to Google APIs for the jQuery library.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Parse TimedText (TT) XML Captions File - adrianparr

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:10:31 UTC

TimedText (TT) XML captions files can have namespaces that cause problems when parsing them in AS3. To get around this you can use this code to remove the namespace from the root XML node using Regex. This example uses

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Convert TextField LineBreaks to CRLF for Display as Plain Text (Notepad) on Windows - adrianparr

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:01:19 UTC

Linebreaks differ between Flash TextField and a plain text file like Notepad. In this example we convert the html linebreaks in Flash to \r\n

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Insert and Delete Characters at TextField CaretIndex Position - adrianparr

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:09:46 UTC

This code gets the current caretIndex in the textfield and then inserts the specified string at that point. The caretIndex position is then updated using setSelection, ready for the next insertion. This was developed to be used with an on-screen keyboard (for entering text into a textfield when the user is in fullscreen mode). The backspace button is intended to function in the same manner as pressing the delete key on your keyboard.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Decimal To Hex - adrianparr

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:22:10 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Left and Right Cursor Key Presses - adrianparr

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:19:34 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Get Point Using Polar Co-ordinates - adrianparr

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:10:07 UTC

This function returns a point object based upon the position, angle and distance of a starting point (polar co-ordinates).

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Getting the Distance Between Two Geographical Points - adrianparr

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:31:37 UTC

Full credit for this goes to Terrence Ryan who converted the JavaScript version to ActionScript.

(ActionScript) AS2 Draw Circle - adrianparr

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:27:28 UTC

I recently has to work on an AS2 project (yuk) and create circles dynamically. Here is a handy function for this.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Truncating Decimal Number - adrianparr

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:23:54 UTC

Examples of different ways to truncate/round a decimal number.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Create Random Password - adrianparr

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:26:45 UTC

Based upon this (https://gist.github.com/988479) but made a few fixes.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Loading and Accessing fonts in external SWF at Runtime - adrianparr

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:01:41 UTC

These two classes demonstrate how to create an external font SWF that contains embedded fonts, and how to then load that external font SWF and access and use the fonts inside it.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Example Font SWF - adrianparr

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:43:00 UTC

This font SWF was created using the handy tool FontSwffer (http://blog.madebypi.co.uk/2011/02/28/fontswffer-1-1/)

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Post tinyurl to Twitter via Twitter webpage - adrianparr

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:28:06 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Remove namespace from XML - adrianparr

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:29:08 UTC

If you don't deal with namespaces in XML correctly they can break your parsing in AS3. One way of getting around this is to remove the namespace from the XML a using regular expression.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Get formatted time from dirty timestamp string - adrianparr

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:20:17 UTC

I was working on a project where the timestamp string I was getting from the backend developer was pretty dirty in the way it was formatted. For example, it looked like "/Date(1310127448000+0100)/". I needed to get a nicely formatted time from it in the format hrs:mins

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Load and access JSON data example - adrianparr

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:33:20 UTC

For this to work you need the as3corelib classes from here ... https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Simple digital clock - adrianparr

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:48:01 UTC

This example expects there to be a dynamic textfield on the stage with the instance name of 'myTextFieldOnStage'. Remember to embed the fonts (Numerals and Colon).

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Get latitude and longitude from a bracketed string - adrianparr

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:08:31 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 DrawingUtil Class - adrianparr

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:51:01 UTC

All credit for this class goes to Ben Kanizay (http://bk4d.com)

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Remove an element from an array - adrianparr

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:25:00 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Show Embedded Fonts - adrianparr

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:43:02 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Loop Through Pixels In A Bitmap - adrianparr

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:52:53 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Wedge Drawing Class (Good for Pie Charts) - adrianparr

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:42:51 UTC

Full credit for this goes to Lee Brimelow.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Trace Out Filters Applied to a DisplayObject - adrianparr

Tue, 31 May 2011 17:16:44 UTC

All credit for this goes to Rob at calypso88.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Round Decimal Places - adrianparr

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:10:59 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Switch Statement Example - adrianparr

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:59:43 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Convert Numbers to Words - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:21:32 UTC

Full credit for this goes to Deva Raj (@nsdevaraj). This is also a good function for doing a similar thing, http://snipplr.com/view/27954/as3-convert-a-number-to-a-string/

(ActionScript 3) AS3 ColorUtil Class (inc. RGBtoCMYK, CMYKtoRGB, subtractive colour & addative colour) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:01:56 UTC

Full credit for this class goes to Deva Raj (@nsdevaraj). Many thanks.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 HSB Colour (Object) to RGB Colour (Object) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:42:38 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 RGB Colours (object) to HSB Colours (Object) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:38:38 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Average Colour Between Two Colours (My version) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:26:32 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 CSS Colour (String) to RGB Colours (Object) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:07:16 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Hex Colour (uint) to RGB Colours (Object) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:02:33 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 RGB Colour to CSS Colour (String) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:45:14 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 RGB Colour to Hex Colour (uint) - adrianparr

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:41:33 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 FlashDevelop New Event Template - adrianparr

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:02:20 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Average Colour Between Two Colours - adrianparr

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:07:50 UTC

Full credit for this code goes to Scratchbrain (http://www.scratchbrain.net/blog/ver2/)

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Who called my actionscript method? - adrianparr

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:49:59 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 FlashDevelop Font Library Template - adrianparr

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:40:30 UTC

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Get Average Colour of an Image - adrianparr

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:58:02 UTC

The docs for the Sekati SWC are here: http://docs.sekati.com/sekati/sekati/utils/ColorUtil.html Another useful blog post: http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/code/actionscript-3/extract-average-colours-from-bitmapdata

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Convert An Object To A Class By Name - adrianparr

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:55:19 UTC

Here is an example of a sound that is in a library with the class field set to MySound.