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Opening External Links from AS3

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:24:40 +0000

So, you probably know that opening external links from inside AS3 is an issue. Depending on the browser, the “_blank” new window openings are blocked as though they were pop ups.

There are many blog entries and forum entries on the web discussing ways to deal with this, some more useful than others; many do not encompass all browsers; many still deal with AS2, etc, etc.

After much, much searching, reading, and experiments, I wanted to post the resolution that I currently believe works the best.

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Embedding HTML in an AS3 Project (no Flex Framework)

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:04:40 +0000

[v0.1] [check for latest version here]

Though rare, the occasion can sneak up on you when you need HTML inside a [full] Flash project. As one “Yahoo Answer-er” put it, “Its like pouring the glass inside the orange juice.” (found here) That notwithstanding, I needed just such a solution when my website client asked me to include in his site some HTML content that he had subscribed to. His site, as all that I do, was being built as a Full Flash site.

After much searching, I found two promising postings, one by Brian Deitte (here), and the other by Alistair Rutherford (here). Still both of these solution were for Flex projects, as the key class in one inherited from Canvas, and the key class in the other, from Container. While very impressed at their clever solutions, I didn’t want to import the Flex Framework just for this.

So, I set out to imitate their solutions, but without the Flex Framework.

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Embedding fonts in AS3

rpx — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:43:51 +0000

marcosweskamp posts this example:

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Preloaders in AS3

rpx — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:28:54 +0000

BIT-101 Blog comments

Garbage Collection and Weak References

rpx — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:53:38 +0000

First off: A wonderful series of articles by Grant Skinner about the new concerns regarding Garbage Collection in AS3. This can not be ignored if your doing AS3 coding.
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Oh, That Stage

rpx — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:59:31 +0000

Alright, running (Ctrl+F11) an ActionScript 3 Project from Flex 2/Eclipse was getting annoying. I couldn’t figure out why the SWF movie was positioned in such an unexpected way in the browser. The top left corner of the Movie was not in the top left corner of the browser window.
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Some AS3 Constants

rpx — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:14:38 +0000

This is nice. We now have some constants that we can use instead of “magic strings”. What I mean, is that we have something kin to pre-made Enums for some common values in AS3.
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AS3 DisplayObject subclasses

rpx — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:23:16 +0000

Taken from here.

Or, maybe I like this next one better. It comes from OReilly Essential ActionScript 3.0 (June 2007). It gives a little more information.

MovieClips with Reflections

rpx — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:20:22 +0000

Nice article here (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/reflect_class_as3.html).

Shape Size in AS3

rpx — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:34:55 +0000

Okay.. I’m copying here. This comes straight from waxpraxis’ website here (http://www.waxpraxis.org/?p=3). Hope he won’t mind.
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