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Here is a great tool that you can convert Flash Timeline codes to the document classes. It works perfectly. The only thing you do is, just copy timeline code into the empty textarea below, then put a name for your document class. When you press “submit” button, a php script generates your document class code at once. Thanks to Zevan Rosser for this converter tool. By the way, he is a smart coder. Many of Zevan’s codes are too short, but also functional. You should check his blog also for some kind of unique tutorials.
AS3 Timeline Code to Document Class Converter
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I’ve been programming with as3 for two years and everyday I come across with a new stuff 
Today, I was checking a as class and encountered with “with” keyword. There is no magic about “with” keyword. But, it allows you to write cleaner codes. Here is a little example how it works;
with (graphics)
{
clear();
beginBitmapFill(_bitmapdata);
moveTo(0, 0);
lineTo(pWidth, 0);
lineTo(pWidth, pHeight);
lineTo(0, pHeight);
lineTo(0, 0);
endFill();
}
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A few days ago, I were working on web-site. I used a photoshop pattern on the background for the design part. My aim was to use background image as a pattern file on web site. So, I could reduce the file size of the web page and avoid from resizing events of user. As is in every fucking project, I stucked on..The problem was, exporting original pattern image from photoshop as single jpg file. Here is my solution 
. Hope it helps some action scripter. Next tutorial is probably realted with “how to make patterned background from a single image file on Action Script”.
1- Create a new file with transparent background
2- Select “Pattern Stamp” tool
3- Select desired pattern from upper toolbar
4- Paint your canvas with “Pattern Stamp” tool. Then click to load “pattern manager” in order to get exact resolution of a single image of the selected pattern.
5- Here is the tricky part , to get the resolution, put your mouse cursor onto your pattern and wait about 3-4 seconds, an information bubble will appear which tells you resolution of a single image…
6- Click “Done” and Select; Image-> Canvas Size
7- Set your size and align cropping point to top-left corner of the canvas.
8- Here is our single image file grabbed from a pattern
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Loading multiple files with queueloader class in as3. here is a tutorial that how it works..
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Today, I’ve found an awesome plug-in called “flex formatter” for Flex. It allows you to reformat or add commentouts into your Flex project just as in Flash. For a long time, I were looking for such a feature for Flex. You can find how to install Flex Formatter into Flex.
- Start up FlexBuilder / FlashBuilder.
- From the Help menu, select ‘Software Updates > Find and Install…’
- Select ‘Search for new features to install’ and click ‘Next >’
- Click ‘New Remote Site…’
- Use name: ‘Flex Formatter’ and url: ‘http://flexformatter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FlexFormatter/FlexPrettyPrintCommandUpdateSite/’
- Click OK
- Make sure only ‘Flex Formatter’ is selected in the ‘Sites to search’ list, and click ‘Finish’
- Follow the prompts to install Flex Formatter, and restart the IDE
Note: This content was taken from gSkinner‘s web-site.
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I’ve been working on a Flash web site for a week. It has nearly finished. However, there some loading time problems at the gallery sections.At first, I tried to load thumbnails one by one, then I changed my mind. Because, there are only 8 thumbs at one time that will be loaded. So, it’s better to load these 8 images at one time and make a single loader. I encountered with Arthur Debert’s awesome as3 class which is called Bulk Loader. Bulk Loader is totally designed for multiple loading purpose. By the way, thanks to him for his class. I want to share this wonderfull class with you. I have no time for a tutorial. At this point, I can recommend you to check Nick Handerman’s post about this multiple loading issue. Thanks to Nick for his tutorial and source files.
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The main problem for Flash designers and web-site are deep-linking problems. However, there are many solutions to get rid of the reference problem. The most known action script class is ASUAL’s SWFADRESS. It works fine for many designers and web sites. But, not for me!. Somehow, I got troubles with SWF ADRESS. So, I searched for new solutions and found Flurl deeplinking class. It’s a tiny little Java script file. Flurl gets parameters from Java and combine them with Action Script’s “ExternalInterface” parameter. I used Flurl for Murat Germen’s web-site for the main categories. For now it is working as I expected…I don’t update the web-site, it needs some performance and stability tests. You can check Flurl Java class from here.
And there are other resources which useful for deeplinking issue.
- Pixel Acres
- Bir Öğrenci Klasiği (This page is in Turkish. Çok güzel bir Türkçe kaynak)
- Flash works
I will post a tutorial about this issue. There are thousands of tutorial around the web. However, all of them tells same stuff. My tutorial is going to be more clear and useful. trust me
UPDATE: Flurl was working perfect on localy. But, when I moved files to the server, it stopped to work! I tried many thing to figure out the problem. But, I couldn’t handle it. So, I returned back to SWFAdress. For now everything is OK with SWFAdress.
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