Re-inventing the wheel? Definitely. Discovering that wheel for myself? Absolutely.
The code written here is procedural and we’re dealing only with two dimensions, I’m sure there are plenty of classes and aggregations of classes that handle the same thing. I started looking at some fundamental vector geometry and got to the fun […]

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I’m working on my first as3 class. There has been a discussion of it going on over at actionscript.org I’m questioning whether or not this should extend the MovieClip class. In any regard it works well for my needs.
In working on this class, I’ve stumbled across a very useful event […]

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This was a nice little exercise getting some name value pair data into an embedding flash object. swfobject 2.0 has a great new way to pass objects with your variables to your swf.
This is the javascript:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/swfobject.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var flashvars = {dataFeedXML: “./data/regions_feed.xml”};
swfobject.embedSWF(”swf/filename.swf”, “flashDiv”, “687″, “486″, “9.0.0″, “swf/expressInstall.swf”, flashvars);
</script>
I had to use the dot […]

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