adrianparr

Member since 02/09/2009

Name: Adrian Parr

Location: Aylesbury, UK

I am an experienced freelance multimedia professional with a strong mix of technical and managerial skills. I have more than eight yearsâ€™ experience working in a busy London full-service digital media agency. I consider myself an all-round digital media expert with a focus on Adobe Flash and related technologies. I am a hard worker who is very easy to get along with.\r\n\r\nPlease visit my LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianparr) to view recommendations from previous co-workers. I have worked on interactive projects across a wide range of sectors, including education, government, television and advertising, receiving more than 20 major industry awards. I am passionate about the industry and active within the online community, and always ensure my knowledge is up-to-date.

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ActionScript 3 AS3 RGB Colour to CSS Colour (String)

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0 833 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 RGB Colour to Hex Colour (uint)

0 1621 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 FlashDevelop New Event Template

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1 838 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Average Colour Between Two Colours

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

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0 797 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Who called my actionscript method?

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1 776 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Get Average Colour of an Image

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

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0 1052 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Convert An Object To A Class By Name

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

0 1380 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Setting Colour of DisplayObject using ColorTransform

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0 745 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Shared Object Manager

Credit for this goes to Terry Paton

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3 781 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Encode and Decode HTML Entity Names (Full Set)

Use this static class to encode and decode HTML Entity Names. For some reason Snipplr doesn't display all the code, so download the ZIP file for a full working demo and source code.

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0 1990 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Fill Available Screen Area with Squares (Centred)

Taken from Christian Cantrell's Adobe article called 'Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes'.

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0 792 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Center one DisplayObject relative to another

Taken from Christian Cantrell's Adobe article called 'Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes'.

center

0 753 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 HTML Color Keywords (ColorName Class)

All credit for this class goes to Mark Walters (www.yourpalmark.com) This class needs to be put in the package structure "com/yourpalmark/utils"

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0 946 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Replace Special XML Characters with Entity Names (Partial Set)

These five characters should be replaced with their HTML entity names before being used in XML, otherwise they may cause the XML to be invalid.

0 1211 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 QR Code Generator

This makes use of http://www.minimalcomps.com, https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib and http://alivepdf.bytearray.org

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2 1493 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Unescape HTML (inc. common Entity Names - But not all)

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0 887 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 NetConnectShare Class

This can be used to help load, play and monitor playback of external video.

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1 872 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Bug accessing FlashVars when using TLFTextField (Workaround)

Note: This example uses Arthropod Debugger (AIR App) which can be downloaded from here http://arthropod.stopp.se/

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1 877 posted 13 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Add a range of Values In an Array

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0 1322 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Load External XML File

Here is a Document Class that loads an external XML file.

2 1284 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Trim a Comma Delimited String (e.g. a list of comma separated keywords entered by a user)

This function trims a string and removes empty entries in a comma delimited list, removes extra commas from the beginning and end and also remove extra space characters between words.

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1 1127 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 TextField and StyleSheet Example (created in ActionScript)

2 1440 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Load External Text File

0 1261 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Draw a Dot at 0,0 to Show the Centre Of a DisplayObject

A handy little function to dynamically draw a black dot on the stage (or displayObject). This can be useful if you want to see where 0,0 is located.

center

2 1174 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Keep Track of Where FocusRect Is Whilst Tabbing

This code traces out the name (and display list path) of the object that currently has focus. This handy when you are testing the tab order and you can't see a yellow rectangle anywhere.

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2 792 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Show SWF Publish Date and Time in Right-Click Menu

This code uses Senocular SWFReader class to get the modification (publish) date of the SWF, and then displays it as a right-click menu item. You need to make sure that your SWF includes the XMP metadata. In the Flash IDE you can turn this on by going...

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2 1213 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Remove Carriage Returns And New Lines Using Regular Expressions

1 1455 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Get the Current Date in the Format YYMMDD (Reverse format)

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0 2257 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Get Flash Player Version Number (inc. Major and Minor Numbers)

This code separates out the Flash Player Platform, Major Version number and Minor Version numbers.

0 961 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr

ActionScript 3 AS3 Loading SWF Files Cross-Domain

From the Big Spaceship Labs website. This is a useful workaround for the following error message ... SecurityError: Error #2142: Security sandbox violation: local SWF files cannot use the LoaderContext.securityDomain property.

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7 1209 posted 14 years ago by adrianparr