AS3: Image Slider
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UPDATE 9:52 PM CST: I just fixed a small issue so if you downloaded the source please re-download it. Thanks.
The image slider is a small project I made for a friend of mine. It works in a similar fashion to the iTunes cover flow except that it does [...]
AS3: Event Responsive Menu Extended
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Last time we looked at the Event Responsive Menu we made a menu system that responded to events based on what button was clicked. This was a working version but rather ugly/useless in the sense that we didn't add any actual functionality to it so now we are going [...]
Foundation XML For Flash Review
Original Publish Date: 12/12/2005
Author(s): Sas Jacobs
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (October 3, 2005)
ISBN: 1590595432
Overall Score: 3.5/5
As I wrote about a month ago, I got the new XML book from Friends of Ed titled Foundation XML for Flash by Sas Jacobs. Now, I’ve been doing a bunch of XML work over the past couple of [...]
AS2 → AS3: Basic XML Parsing
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XML in AS3 is very different from the old AS2 firstChild stuff that we are accustomed to. With the advent of E4X in AS3, traversing XML is now much cleaner and more closely resembles XPath. Before, parsing XML gave you a whole bunch of firstChilds and childNodes that you had no [...]
AS2 → AS3: Load An XML File
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Loading XML in AS3 requires the use of the new Event system. In AS2 you could just tell the XML object to perform a method onLoad (when the XML file has finished loading and is ready to be parsed). In AS3 you have to add a listener to the Event.COMPLETE event [...]
AS2: XML Image Loading Scroller
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This is an image scroller that loads in images through XML. Right now it is set up to move horizontally based on what button on the bottom you roll over. It was originally a file I made for someone on the Kirupa forums a long time ago but [...]
