Category Archives: actionscript

Stop the mobile ActionBar from transitioning

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Kenneth

I was creating a mobile AIR app and the app was to have an ActionBar at the top and depending on the view that was about to get pushed I didn’t want the ActionBar to have a transition effect. Sounds … Continue reading →

Debugging facebook apps locally (web based ones)

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Kenneth

If  you’re wanting to develop a facebook app then there is loads of helpful stuff out there to get you going. Specifically I’d start here if you’re interested http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook.html. But what they don’t tell you is how to debug your app without you … Continue reading →

StateGroups – finally found a use for them

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Kenneth

State groups? Ever looked at them and though they look really useful but then can’t find a good use for them! Well last year (yes its taken a while to finish of this post – hopefully its worth it), while … Continue reading →

Searching a string – do you need to start with a period?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Kenneth

Today I had to write some code to search for text that matched various file extensions, this should have been a no brainer of a task. But like some things that sound stupidly simple it caught me out. If you … Continue reading →

Updating bindings when you only change a property inside an Object

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Kenneth

Its quite a common thing with Flex and actionscript projects to create an Object and inside that object it will have many properties.  Something in your view will be bound to the object so that the view changes with the … Continue reading →

Cross domain policy – Not to be used for release!

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Kenneth

Sometimes I like to put something up on my blog that’s more as of a bookmark for myself as I know I’ll want to look it up at some point.  So what I’ve got here is a slack, open cross … Continue reading →

IconItemRenderer and LabelItemRenderer, separator lines hardcoded!

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Kenneth

Working on a mobile project I needed to create a renderer for a list, so I choose to look at the IconItemRenderer which extends the LabelItemRenderer. These have been optimised for mobile use so it seemed a reasonable place to … Continue reading →

Simple tip #5 Create function to call any function with unknown args

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Kenneth

The other day I wanted to create a function in a class that would take a Function as a parameter and an Array of arguments.  Much like callLater() does, but not doing the whole queuing thing until the next frame. … Continue reading →