http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge Code Snippets and Discoveries while navigating through Flex and AS3. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:59:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [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 ... http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2008/07/01/embedding-html-in-an-as3-project-no-flex-framework/ 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 ... http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2008/06/30/opening-external-links-from-as3/ marcosweskamp posts this example: http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/11/embedding-fonts-in-as3/ BIT-101 Blog comments http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/11/preloaders-in-as3/ 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. http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/10/garbage-collection-and-weak-references/ 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 ... http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/07/exit-stage-right/ 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. http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/06/some-as3-constants/ 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. http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/06/as3-displayobject-subclasses/ Nice article here (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/reflect_class_as3.html). http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/06/movieclips-with-reflections/ Okay.. I'm copying here. This comes straight from waxpraxis' website here (http://www.waxpraxis.org/?p=3). Hope he won't mind. http://www.broadskies.net/flexmerge/2007/09/06/shape-size-in-as3/