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• …remotely compile FLA files for Flex Builder debugging

  This is a follow-up to this two-years old post by Daryl Joseph Ducharme.
  While Daryl explains how to use Ant and a *.jsfl file to remotely open Flash IDE, have it compile a given *.fla, and then close, his approach creates a release *.swf file, one that contains no debug information. If you want to actually [...]

  March 15th, 2010

• …tell apart missing XML attributes from empty ones

  This might be tricky using E4X, which, in an attempt to make the overall XML handling a lot easier, apparently also took some useful “garbage” away: there is no getAttributeNode() method (or similar) in E4X, as it is in DOM.

  var dataProvider1 : XML = <Text />;

  var dataProvider2 : XML = <Text prompt="" />;

   

  // Suppose you [...]

  February 26th, 2010

• …convert a decimal Number to a hexadecimal String?

  Don’t go about writing your own decimal to hexadecimal converter. In AS3, the Number.toString(radix : Number) method is all that you need:

  var myDeci : Number = 16711680;

  var myHexa : String = myDeci.toString (16); // myHexa now holds "ff0000"

  Note that you may still need to left pad the resulting value, if you’re operating with color triplets [...]

  January 26th, 2010

• …scroll an element into view in Flex?

  This worked for me:

  var myButtonBounds : Rectangle = myButton.getBounds (this);

  verticalScrollPosition = myButtonBounds.bottom;

  In the above, myButton was the Flex component I needed to bring into view by scrolling up the content of its container.

  January 23rd, 2010