In almost every Flash project, there are thumbnails or icons that need to be created and which then will either load video or image on click event. In a recent project, I had to create thumbnails dynamcially and center align them on stage, based on XML elements, but you can also load them from an…
Before any details, here is the snippet that should remove the MovieClip from stage: clipToRemove.parent.removeChild(clipToRemove); //provided clipToRemove has no parent otherwise that path will also include //but you get the logic here anyway In AS2, removeMovieClip(this) would do the job for removing any clip from stage, but AS3 has changed the things and have made…
In Flash, to add ComboBox Component and populate its labels and values from an external XML document, follow these steps. In the following example, we will load countries list and access country name using its attribute. Create a new Flash (ActionScript 3.0) document. Drag a ComboBox to the Stage and give it an instance name…
Unfortunately and surprisingly, Flash AS3 does not have a TitleCase function a la ucwords() in PHP todate. Following ActionScript 3.0 function will let you do just that: function titleCase(txt:String):String{ txt = txt.split(" ").map(function(myElement:String, myIndex:int, myArr:Array):String{ return myElement.substr(0, 1).toLocaleUpperCase() + myElement.substr(1); }).join(" "); return txt; } // you’ll use this function like this var heading:String =…
In a recent Flash project, while working with the FLV video, there was requirement to change the playback of flv video to different speeds on user selection. I achieved this by changing the stage frame rate of the Flash movie. Following steps will explain how can you replicate that: Create a MovieClip symbol and place…
While working in Adobe Flash, there are times when you want to know the current frame number of the play head. To display current frame of the movie, draw a TectField on stage, and give it a instance name “frameTxt” using Properties Panel. Put following code in the Actions Panel on frame 1 in ActionScript…
Adding preloader in your Flash file is necessary if your swf file size is large, and in my opinnion, anything bigger than 100 kb is large enough to have a preloader. In this age of high speed net, it usually does not take long to load even bigger swf files, but you still don’t want…
In AS3, styling the text content dynamically is done using TextFormat class. Create a new Flash AS3 file, In the ActionPanelCreate a TextFormat object with the specified properties. You can then change the properties of the TextFormat object to change the formatting of text fields. For making TextField Bold var boldText:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); boldText.bold…
While working on a project, I needed to highlight the selected thumbnail of an image, and this is how I added border dynamically to that MovieClip. Follow these steps before adding the AS3 code: Draw a rectangle on stage and convert it into a new MovieClip by selecting it and pressing F8. Name it a…
Using FlashVars is a very useful way to load dynamic data from the URL or HTML page containing Flash swf file. This approach is mainly used to pass on some id or resource path such as xml file which contains further data. Passing resources paths using FlashVars really makes life easier for a developer switching…
While working on a Flash AS3 application, I needed to manipulate a string and found out that old AS1 and AS2 str.replace() would not work in the same way in the AS3. Instead I ended up using split and join functions for a simple string replacement. var str:String = "No Donuts for you!"; //replace a…
In Flash, ScrollPane component allows every kind of content to be easily added and shown in the scrollpane. Here’s how you can create MovieClips dynamically and add them to the scrollpane on the stage. First of all, this is what will it look like: [SWF]https://www.parorrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/scrollPane.swf, 500, 300[/SWF] Following are the steps that will create a…
If you see extra spacing between lines in the text content after loading and parsing XML document using AS3 in Flash, you have landed to the right blog post. These extra line spcaes are caused due to \n newline characters and other whoite spaces present in the xml document. Good news is that you can…
Using AS3 in Flash, loading dynamic text in the TextField is a common task and usually this text is large enough and requires scrollbars to show it properly. Unfortunately, TextField in Flash, even in the latest CS5 version, available via AS3 does not have built-in support of Scrollbars. I recently had to do the same…
In Flash AS3, while using TextArea Component in the following way: import fl.controls.TextArea; var myTxt:TextArea = new TextArea(); //define position on stage myTxt.move(50,50); //define size of TextArea myTxt.setSize(300, 50); myTxt.htmlText = "<li>Lorem ipsum dolor</li> <li> sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li> <li>Vivamus quis nisl vel tortor nonummy vulputate.</li> <li> Quisque sit amet eros sed purus euismod…