Articles tagged with ActionScript
Flash Components Missing Fonts
Posted by Chris Inch on Feb. 8th, 2006
So here's a nice bug that took me about a month to figure out:
Blocking Backgrounds in Flash
Posted by Chris Inch on Feb. 12th, 2006
A very common problem in Flash is as follows:
Your stage is covered in buttons and interactive movie clips and you want to put something on top of your entire stage and disable all the elements in the background all at once. Here's how:
Flash addXMLPath example
Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 1st, 2007
I was recently working on an application in Flash which required the use of Flash's Locale class. It didn't take long before I was consulting the documentation for some of the methods and I ran across the addXMLPath method. Too bad a valid example was never included in the documentation.
Unblocking backgrounds in Flash
Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 31st, 2007
A long while ago I wrote an article describing how to block background elements in Flash. The problem I used to encounter was that my background elements were clickable through other movie clips on the stage. In ActionScript 3.0, this has all changed.