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

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:45:24 GMT

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

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Remove Tabs and NewLine Characters

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:30:41 GMT

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

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:56:19 GMT

Credit goes to Bruno Imbrizi.

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

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:53:34 GMT

Credit goes to Bruno Imbrizi.

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Click-and-Rotate Content

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:47:01 GMT

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

(ActionScript 3) AS3 getVisibleBounds

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:09:35 GMT

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

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

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:01:19 GMT

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 Pie Chart

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:00:46 GMT

Credit goes to http://snipplr.com/users/MaRmAR/

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

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:09:46 GMT

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

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:22:10 GMT

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Left and Right Cursor Key Presses

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:19:34 GMT

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

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:10:07 GMT

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

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:31:37 GMT

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

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Truncating Decimal Number

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:23:54 GMT

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

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Create Random Password

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:26:45 GMT

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

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:01:41 GMT

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

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:43:00 GMT

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

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:28:06 GMT

(ActionScript 3) AS3 Remove namespace from XML

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:29:08 GMT

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

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:20:17 GMT

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