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 …
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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 …
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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. 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 …
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Hi, I’ve ran into this bug recently and tried to find a solution, a quick google search returned no answers to the issue so I thought I would post about the problem here and also post the solution / workaround I found. The problem is that the loader component (flash 8 AS2) is not scaling …
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Angora Rabbit From wikipedia: The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft hair. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit, originating in Ankara , Turkey , along with the Angora cat and Angora goat. The rabbits were popular pets with French royalty in the mid …
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It is a fact, flash is growing fast and the new changes to its scripting language i.e. actionScript3 is the most radical change, being a professional AS2 programmer, I find myself amazed of how much things have changed in the new language, the web is full of articles talking about the transition from AS2 to …
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Hello again, In part one, we saw an easy way to use the XML connector and dataBinding component to assign the contentPath propery of the media player component to one entry of an XML playlist. In this tutorial, we go one step further and add a dataGrid then bind the selected index of that grid …
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One of my students, 17 years old Nadim Moughrabi, passed away two days ago in a car accident, I knew about it yesterday and I was really saddened by this big loss… We spend years and years with our students, we enjoy having them around and we don’t mind seeing them leave as graduates, we …
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Hello guys, It’s been a while and I was very busy , could not get this data binding and XML connector tutorial posted. Excuse my delay. So here is the long waited xml connector and data biniding tutorial at last! Ok, let’s explain few things before we start. XML connector is a class whose job …
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