19 Sep
A few posts ago, I showed you how to build a basic menu using an Array of button names. Now, I will demonstrate how to build the same menu, but this time use the new XML class which is based on E4X. There are many benefits of using XML in your applications. The main reason [...]
7 Sep
Today I have decided to build a simple ActionScript 3.0 horizontal menu based on an array. This is a fairly common practice in Flash development as we are often using data provided from a XML file to dynamically update content within our movies. To simplify this tutorial I am going to use an array that [...]
2 Aug
In AS3, one of the most significant changes was to make the EventDispatch class the standard tool for calling events. This is a huge step in ActionScript as code written by different developers will become a lot more similar. In the following example I will demonstrate how to use addEventListener to add a click event [...]
28 Jul
ActionScript 3.0 has some great new functions to simplify drawing shapes. Previously in ActionScript 2.0 you had to specify each point in a shape and draw lines between them. Now, you can use drawCircle, drawEllipse, drawRect & drawRoundRect to speed up the process. Lets take a look at how it [...]
28 Jul
Well, it appears that in my previous posts about ActionScript 3.0, I am a bit old school. I have been instantiating my code from the first frame of the timeline using the import statement. After opening up a few of the as3_labs_samples_062706 and realizing that there is no code on the timeline, just a disclaimer, [...]