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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:

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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:

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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.

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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.

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Chris Inch is a programmer, web developer, musician, graphic designer, photographer and handyman from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Chris graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science. He currently works professionally as an ActionScript 3.0 developer.

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