Comments for Fraser Crosbie - Calgary Flash & Flex Developer

Comment on SimpleButton and Events in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Giovanni

Giovanni — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:47:21 +0000

How can I add a link to the buttons?

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array by Leo

Leo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:04 +0000

Ok so we need to build a Menu in Flash, lets hire someone for a ridiculous hourly wage, pffftt please.

Basic Menu, complicated code. AS3 is not for designers, that is all.

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array by newton

newton — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:36:46 +0000

This is the most simple, clear and understandable Menu-AS3-Tutorial I found.
Thanks very much.

Comment on ActionScript 3.0 Hello World! Tutorial by Froztwolf

Froztwolf — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:58:54 +0000

I had some trouble getting this to work at first because I forgot to set the instance name. If you are trying this and nothing happens see if you are having the same problem. Thanks for the article!

Comment on SimpleButton and Events in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Jeaner

Jeaner — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:55:09 +0000

great tutorial, Fraser. And good responses to questions! I, for one, really need tutorials that break things down this far and are over before i ever start to kick and scream! I’ll be coming back for more for sure!!

Comment on SimpleButton and Events in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:15:53 +0000

Ouch! I agree that AS3 has been sorely needed for years and Flash Designers continue to tell me that it is extremely difficult to grasp. In my mind it takes both a good designer and a good developer to make a project great. Flash Designer’s should focus on what they do best, creating graphics and animating them. There should be very minimal or no code at all in their movies. The developer should take these assets and piece them together to create the end result. I think companies are going to have to consider hiring two specialized people instead of just one jack of all trades.

Comment on Drawing Shapes in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Porter

Porter — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:58:56 +0000

Nice tutorial on how to draw shapes through AS, neat stuff. Far more simple then particle effects, but definitely useful. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on SimpleButton and Events in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Ren

Ren — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:04:17 +0000

So-called designers who can’t think outside the box need to change careers – like being a burger-flipper at McD’s.

“Application Designer” is a position that only exists because companies have been too cheap to hire real Application Developers.

Too bad for all you inflexible people who can’t think outside the box.

AS3 has been sorely needed for years – and now we’ll separate the real talent from the hacks.

Comment on Debugging in ActionScript 3.0 – Part 2 – Objects Tutorial by proxykitten

proxykitten — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:57:39 +0000

Super helpful — was looking for something this simple to trace through what’s tracked in an eventListener. Perfect.

Comment on SimpleButton and Events in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:53:40 +0000

You create folders in Windows Explorer or Mac Finder.

Comment on SimpleButton and Events in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial by Durham Dave 7th

Durham Dave 7th — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:11:56 +0000

I don’t understand how to “Save this file as ButtonTrace.as in a folder structure of ca.flashdev.example.”
Do I create new folders in the Timeline and nest them?
Or do I create folders in Windows Explorer, C:\ca\flashdev\example\ ?

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array by jeff

jeff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:48:40 +0000

Thank you for this well thought out tutorial!!!

I wish all programmers would comment like you. Kudos!

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 2 – XML by Tawhid

Tawhid — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:49:24 +0000

Anybody knows how to change the text color on MouseOver on this code?

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array by Tawhid

Tawhid — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:44:13 +0000

How can I change the text color while on Mouse_Over. I see you are changing the sprite only, what would be the best way to change the Text Format on Mouse Over to each Menu.

Thanks,

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 2 – XML by manny

manny — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:02:44 +0000

First of all great post,

I am trying to find where we associate the button with a specific path eg Button 1 links to home.swf and button 3 is gallery.swf.

Shouldn’t this be in menu.xml?

Probably stupid question bur asking anyway

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 2 – XML by Pauschalreisen

Pauschalreisen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:59:03 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful for me.
After changing the imports u have listed in the code to these imports:
import flash.xml.XMLDocument;
import flash.errors.*;
I had also the cpile error in this part
[ for each (p in __menuList) { ]
p seems to be undefined
I have fixed the errors and I succeeded to get the code running.Now apllication can be instantly updated without having to open up Flash to republish it.

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array by Fraser Crosbie

Fraser Crosbie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:29:15 +0000

Thanks Mikey! I recently updated the theme of this blog and never realized that the height of the code samples shrunk.

Comment on Building a Basic Menu in ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial – Part 1 – Array by Kapitaine

Kapitaine — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:37:59 +0000

Hi this is a great site – consider it bookmarked! Your ActionScript 3 stuff is really helpful for me as I’m just learning and you keep things rather straightforward.

One thing I would recommend is to allow for a bigger area to display your example code…the textarea right now (at least in IE6) is very small and scrolling through a large amount of lines is tricky. Other than that the site is great!

Keep up the good work.

Thanks,
Mikey.

PS – Only using IE6 because I’m on a locked-down network.

Comment on A must-read for learning ActionScript 3.0 by Kapitaine

Kapitaine — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:09:21 +0000

@ Mark

You would use an addEventLister() I beleive like so:

aButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {
trace(“Event ” + e);
}

I’m just starting to learn ActionScript and that’s how you do it I think.

Good luck…
Mikey

Comment on Flex Online Compiler by Sj

Sj — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:42:45 +0000

The given link is not working