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Scrolling Flex Charts 27 Feb 2008 | 05:37 pm
If your TextArea has a lot of text, you get a scroll bar. If your datagrid has too many rows or columns, you get scroll bars. If your Image is too large, you can put it inside a container with scrollb...
Callback filter functions in E4X 1 Apr 2007 | 11:04 pm
While porting some xpath-heavy AS2 code to AS3, I ran into problems. E4X (new and improved xml support in AS3) seems to make xpath obsolete. However, all the E4X query examples in the docs use hard-co...
More embedded font strangeness – CSS 4 Jan 2007 | 10:52 am
I thought I was done with the Flash-embedded-font in my previous blog entry, but there is more. I received an email requesting help with CSS and embedded fonts, and when I looked into it, found some q...
The Unbearable Strangeness of Embedding Fonts 20 Dec 2006 | 01:28 am
The 'why' and 'how' of embedding fonts is a Flash 101 topic. The main 'why' is that the user can't see fonts that she doesn't have. If your swf uses these fonts, you need to bundle them in the swf (or...
Preprocessor ASSERTS in ActionScript 21 Oct 2006 | 11:28 am
Unlike most other computer languages, when ActionScript code fails, it fails silently. If my code sends an undefined argument to a function, there is no crash, no alert message, nothing scary. Overal...
Array.sortOn does not work with MovieClips 3 Oct 2006 | 08:57 am
This problem drove me crazy. I'd thought I'd get it in the google-verse so anyone else who runs into it can benefit from my pain. Array.sortOn() does not seem to work when the array elements are obje...
My Carpal-Tunnel Solution 9 Jun 2006 | 01:10 am
It was about 10 years ago when carpal-tunnel first hit me. Every time I put my hand on my mouse, I'd get spasms of pain in my various parts of my arm. I tried special ergonomic mice and trackballs, bu...
Face Morph - Part 1, Morphin' George 7 Jun 2006 | 11:24 am
Unlike Grant Skinner's gooify, which is a free-form distortion, the morph presented here is more constrained. It has an editable triangle mesh read more
Simulate download: Static vars not re-initialized 4 May 2006 | 10:06 pm
The 'Simulate Download' feature in the Flash IDE is very useful. It can help debug race conditions that are a cause of intermittent problems. However, it can also lead you astray. Problem: AS2 static...
Flash Perlin Texture Components: Wood and Marble 21 Apr 2006 | 07:26 am
A while back, I wrote about rendering Wood and Marble using Perlin noise. But I've found that these code bits are a pain to use. You need to write code just to see them. You can't work with them in th...
