Category: Flash CS5.5 and AS3

One of the problems many flash developers face is creating a preloader that works correctly. If your like me, my first attempt resulted in asking the question, “Why does my preloader first appear on stage beginning at around 70% complete …

Let’s say you are playing a game that is keeping score. You are doing very well and you are close to beating someone else’s high score. All of sudden, you become distracted. The house is on fire! You want to …

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Inserting a scene and deleting a scene are not available in the same place. In other words, to add a scene, on the menu bar, click Insert, then click Scene. The stage tab name changes from Scene 1 to Scene …

I have no idea how it happened, but one day I tried compiling my Flash program and it was producing an error on a control I did not even see on the stage or the pasteboard. It was a control …

The following demonstrates how to use the Classic TextField and the TLFTextField for the purposes of creating a password behavior type text.

Classic Text

Drag a Text Tool to the stage and call the Instance Name, txtPassword
Choose ‘Classic Text’ …

You want to test your flash application from within the IDE. You press CTRL-Enter and all is well. You now want to test in DEBUG mode, so you press CTRL-Shift-Enter, and as soon as your application tries to access the …

I put together this paddle ball game (break out).

I set the ball speed to .5

I increment the speed by .1 after each level.

I got these results:

• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.79999999
• 0.89999999
• etc.

What I wanted was:

• 0.5
• 0.6

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If you compile your game with Flash Player 9 (Publish Settings), this is not an issue. When the Flash Player is set to 10 and above is when propagation occurs.

To prevent this from happening, add the following code…

event.stopPropagation();

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Other controls such as the combox box, numeric stepper, checkbox, and radio button can be disabled

(shaded light grey and can no longer be interacted with) via the designer or programmatically if desired.

What about the textField? As you can …