I have been converting most of my AS2 codes to AS3, one issue that I have encountered is “buttonMode” property for MovieClip.
If you have included frames labeled _up, _over, and _down, Flash Player provides automatic state changes, it is the same for AS2/AS3. But if you have a MovieClip within a MovieClip that has been […]

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AS3 MovieClip “enabled” property does not stop receiving events from mouseDown, mouseUp, keyDown, and keyUp etc… when set to false, only the movie clip’s Over, Down, and Up frames are disabled. You will need to set the condition within event handler to stop the event or disable the mouse event completely using “mouseEnabled” property from […]

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AS3 startDrag/stopDrag is similar to AS2 except it uses mouse events to detect the mouse movement, below is a simple implementation:

package {

import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;

public class DragExample extends Sprite {

function DragExample() {
[…]

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Wish everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year!
Warmest Regards,
Ed

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SWX RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in SWX. It’s simple enough that you can get up and running with it in about five minutes. SWX RPC is perfect for building mashups (with easy-to-use APIs for Flickr, Twitter, and others), mobile applications (Flash Lite 2.0 and 2.1), and other data-driven Flash sites and […]

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Here is the simple code for AS3 preloader, slightly different from AS2:

this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loadProgress);

function loadProgress(event:Event):void {
var bytes_loaded:int = this.root.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded;
var bytes_total:int = this.root.loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
var bytes_percent:int = Math.round((bytes_loaded/bytes_total)*100);
trace(bytes_percent + “% is loaded”);
if (bytes_loaded >= bytes_total) {
trace(”This movie is loaded”);
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loadProgress);
}
};

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