Author Archives: Zevan

Procedural Pattern - Navigation

By Zevan | December 20, 2008

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Actionscript:

var currentBtn:MovieClip;

 

var nav:Sprite = new Sprite();

nav.x = nav.y = 20;

addChild(nav);

 

createBtns();

 

nav.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickBtn);

 

function createBtns():void{

    for (var i:int = 0; i<10; i++){

        var btn:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

        with(btn.graphics) beginFill(0x666666), drawRect(-10,-10,20,20);

        btn.x = i * (btn.width + 10);

        btn.buttonMode = true;

      [...]

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FileReference.save()

By Zevan | December 19, 2008

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Actionscript:

var file:FileReference = new FileReference();

 

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

 

function onClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {

    file.save("some text. \nsome more text", "actionsnippet.txt");

}

This is possibly my favorite feature of flash 10. Save any kind of file to the users computer...
The first argument is for the data to put in the file, this can be a String, ByteArray or XML [...]

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XOR Conditional

By Zevan | December 18, 2008

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Actionscript:

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop);

 

function onLoop(evt:Event):void {

    var boolA:Boolean = false;

    var boolB:Boolean = false;

   

    if (mouseX> 200){

        boolA = true;

    }else{

        boolA = false;

    }

   

    if (mouseY <200){

        boolB = true

    }else{

      [...]

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Unique ID

By Zevan | December 17, 2008

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Actionscript:

trace((new Date()).getTime() + Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);

A hacky way to get a unique ID, although this isn't, perfect it works well enough. For a project that you really expect to get huge amounts of traffic... you might consider using php's uniqid() function and passing it into your swf. That said, the odds of two users [...]

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