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August 18th, 2006

A Simple in-swf debugger

When developing a Flash app for the web sometimes it can be painful seeing what's going on as you can't trace things in the browser - not that I'm aware of anyway. If you use FireBug in FireFox when you are developing you can set up a function in javascript that allows you to see what you a tracing using this same method but outputting it to the javascript debugger ...

April 19th, 2006

External Interface and local connections

External interface is a class in Flash that allows the swf to talk to javascript and vice versa. There a two basic methods: call - you can call a javascript function from the swf addCallback - you can call a actionscript function from javascript So to get it to work first of all you need to import the External Interface class: import flash.external.ExternalInterface; Then you need add your calls and callbacks. For a callback: ExternalInterface.addCallback("actionScriptFunc", this, ...

January 9th, 2006

Flash - rotating an image around a point

I have been working with Flash recently – when I say Flash I really mean Actionscript – it seems to me the Actionscript and Javascript are getting pretty close together as it was not that difficult to get the gist of the action script. One of things I was doing involves rotating a dynamically loaded image. This caused me quite a few problems and I had to re-learn all my school ...