Entries from Deitte.com tagged with 'as3'
Thanks For Voting!
After my lament on Flash/Flex bug voting three weeks ago, I was very happy to see all of the votes on the bugs mentioned: EventDispatcher should expose list of attached listeners went from 4 votes to 16 votes. Include FlexPMD...
My Requests for the Flash Platform
Ted Patrick wrote last month about The Future of the Flash Platform and asked people to be more vocal about the features and bug fixes they're looking for. Here's my in-depth lobbying session. Below are my top requests for the...
Image Effects in AS3
If you want to know more about manipulating images in Flash, I have an excellent new book to recommend. It's Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects by Todd Yard, a coworker of mine at Brightcove. I was the technical editor of...
Code Coverage in AS3, ECMAScript 4, and More
Here's a grab-bag of links, with the first one being the most well-known on the Flex blogs. I still wanted to link to Joe Berkovitz's post on code coverage in AS3, because I'm excited to see this getting done (and...
Decompiling AS3 and Random Compiler Thoughts
When the Flex compiler was open sourced, I wanted to get my hands dirty and make a change or two myself. In the first week I dug into the source and looked to make a change to decompile (or rather...
Future Features in AS3
After reading Keith Peters' post on singleton's and abstract classes, I wanted to see if there was more public information about the state of abstract classes in ECMAScript 4. As most readers of this blog will know, AS3 will be...
The World of ECMAScript
Here's a wonderfully detailed cloud of everything ECMAScript (found via Artima). From Artima's count, there's "eight different implementations of ECMAScript, sixteen ECMAScript engines implemented in six different languages, and many more applications that provide an ECMAScript execution environment." Not a...
Search for MXML and ActionScript in Google Code Search
Now that Google Code Search allows for searches by file name, you can search for MXML and AS3 files. MXML files can be searched for by specifying file:.mxml$. You can search for AS3 files in a similar way, although it...
Tamarin, AS 3.0 Cookbook, and Jobs
A late congratulations to the Adobe team on Tamarin. A bunch of the team had been working hard on this in the Boston office, and it's great (and a little surprising) to see this unveiled. Hopefully I am linking to...
AS3 Documentation and Libraries
Update: If you're looking for the documentation of the AS3 and Flex APIs, you can find it here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/3/langref/. In the past few days, two important resources have been released for those interested in ActionScript 3. The first resource is...
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