Tag Archives: ActionScript


Understanding ActionScript 3 debugging in Flash


Whether you’re a designer or developer, learn the basics of debugging and understand the most common issues that occur in debugging ActionScript 3 projects in Flash Professional CS5. More

Android for ActionScript developers, part 5: fragmentation is real


Much is said about the Android platform’s fragmentation problem. However, the fact that there are a lot of politics and conflicts of interest at play creates an echo chamber that is difficult to wade through – especially if you reach articl… More

Video Tutorial: Balloon Shooter in FlashPunk – Episode 4


The last and final episode of the tutorial series “Creating a Balloon Shooter game in FlashPunk” is now uploaded. The tutorial files attached with this video is the ActionScript project containing full source of the game. If you have any fe… More

Digital Clock


I need a simple digital clock, but did not find any such standard component. Then using Timer and Date class I tried to create a Digital Clock in ActionScript. More

Android for ActionScript developers, part 4: Reading XML is nuts


One of the most baffling things for me when I started messing around with Android was dealing with XML files, especially parsing them. In Actionscript, parsing a XML is simple enough: var xml:XML = new XML(“Some-stuff”); And you can get children pretty… More

Object-oriented programming concepts: Polymorphism and interfaces


Learn how to use polymorphism and interfaces in ActionScript 3. More

Object-oriented programming concepts: Inheritance


Learn how to use inheritance in ActionScript 3. More

Optimizing cross-compiled JavaScript


There are three topics left that I would like to touch on next:

optimizing
debugging
testing

Many of you probably think that optimizing JavaScript is mostly about minifying the code thus keeping code size small and load times short. Minifying is a bi… More

What is in flash.swc?


In this part of our ongoing series about cross-compiling ActionScript to JavaScript I will talk about flash.swc, which is the last of the three FlashRT SWCs of my  “dreamed up” Flex SDK for JavaScript:

frameworks/libs/browser/browserglobal.swc
f… More

ActionScript 3.0 GestureEvent: Working with Gestures on Mobile


Using Gestures When working with high level and complex structures like Design Patterns, the focus is squarely on the relationship between objects—classes, inheritance, composition, implementation, interfaces and related concepts and structures. The … More