Yes, another scholastic year has passed, a new wave of our beloved teen students graduated, they are out in the wild now getting ready for the big deal! Leen, Ali, Mohammad, Sally, Dima, Rania and the lovely Lara are now out of the nest ๐ they are flying on their own, I will miss you …
Big news, flash player 10 beta supports complex text layouts and namely support for RTL languages like Arabic! At last, more info here : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/videos/text.html There are many other features added like CPU surfacing and GPU compositing as well as enhanced drawing API and native 3D support yet the RTL support is something we’ve been …
Left trim and right trim actionScript functions These useful functions (lTrim and rTrim) are available in almost all programming languages yet not in actionScript, so hereโs how to write ones yourself: lTrim is easier, so weโll start with that: [as] function lTrim(txt:String):String { while (txt.charAt(0)==” ” ||txt.charAt(0)==”\t” || txt.charAt(0)==”\n” || txt.charAt(0)==”\r” ) { txt=txt.substring(1,txt.length-1); } …
Like many of you outlook express users, I got an email today informing me that outlook express will no longer be able to access hotmail accounts beyond June 30 because the geniuses at Microsoft have invented what they think is a better protocol and outlook doesn’t support it so they had to come up with …
An XML driven slick mp3 player with playlist support and paypal as payment gateway, the look and feel is clean crisp and WEB2.0. The player displays album art and a nice spectrum analyzer animation and comes with two skins, the black and white ones. Here’s a preview of the players, click to see them in …
I needed a typewriter text effect with a twist for an mp3 player I was making, looked around and could not find one that suits my needs so I wrote this class, should do the job. [as] /* @author = Wassim Sidani @www.sidani.info usage example: var tE:TxtEff=new TxtEff(textFieldInstance, textToWrite, delay); textFieldInstance= a reference to a …
The best flash shopping cart you’ve ever seen! The flash cart supports multiple categories of products; it is driven by XML or a mySQL database. The flash shopping cart was designed with usability in mind, it loads and is ready to go in less than 10 seconds! Faster than html or php based carts! User …
I’ve built this site mainly to share knowledge and my personal thoughts and findings.I post educational stuff, mostly related to Biology, as well as code snippets and tips and tricks related to computing in general and to Adobe flash and its scripting language (ActionScript) in particular. I hold a teaching diploma in Biochemistry, a certificate …
This fix applies to flash 8 scrollPane component v2. Here’s the problem: you attach content dynamically at runtime to your scrollPane, then much to your surprise, the vertical scroll bar doesn’t show up despite the fact that you specified vScrollPolicy as “on” or “auto” and that the content is larger than the scrollPane. You probably …
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This new feature has been introduced in flash player 9,0,115,0. ย Certain standard flash components (dataGrid, comboBox, list etc..) are used by a large number of websites. For example, More than 100 Kb of identical data has to be downloaded for every Flex application (the flex framework) . With the new Flash Player cache, Flex applications …