Flash 3D API in the current flash player (10.1) is very limited, and is no more than a basic perspective drawing. However, it is perfectly suitable for putting flat 2D objects in 3D space – to create what is often called ‘flying postcards’. Before FP10, Flying postcards used to be very difficult to code, but nowadays it [...]
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If your game or application is too large to fit, or too slow, then you may be in a position to rethink the usage of Flex SDK. Part 1 discussed the motivations to try and skip the Flex SDK on certain projects. While it focused on the why, this time it will focus on the [...]
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Flex is often taken for granted when implementing flash/AS3 projects. However it is not mandatory to use Flex on the flash platform. Not only that, its not always the preferred solution for most RIAs. In this post, I will cover a few alternatives to Flex while staying in the realm of Actionscript and Flash. Yes, [...]
READ MORE »Heres a useful tip on using the mx utils package. Occasionally we need to trace values of objects, whether these are flash display objects or your own classes and VOs. Simply outputting an object to trace will generate an output like [Object Object] without any useful info about the contents of the object.
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