Flash Coder

Every once in a while, someone actually uses our development tool of choice to produce something which is not only useful, but also helps throw our lives in to perspective. The people at poodwaddle have built just such an application. Read the rest of this entry »

That’s right. Adobe want’s to know if there’s a correlation between Flash developers (or any other kind of developer) and Poker playing (It can be any kind. It doesn’t have to be Texas Hold’em). Complete the survey and see for yourself. Once you have completed it you will not be able to do it again (so get it right), but you will get to see the results coming in every time you return to it. Read the rest of this entry »

I was writing some control classes in AS 3 the other day and I realised I needed to create a custom event. I hadn’t done this in quite a while as my new duties don’t give me as much time to code as I’d like . I had forgoten just how different it is from AS2. So, for my own sake (as the old memory isn’t what it used to be) and for those of you who don’t already know, here’s how to create and dispatch a custom event in ActionScript 3.0. Read the rest of this entry »