Recently I discovered that there’s another method to achive mask feather in flash. It doesn’t require any png images nor actionscript, and is supported from flash 8 thanks to it’s blending modes. Here what we want achive:
January 10, 2010
May 25, 2009
How to load XML with AS3
Actionscript 3 handles xmls very well, there’s no need any longer to use special classes as for instance XMLSA which we all used for AS2. Here what we need to do: (more…)
April 4, 2009
Mask Feather
Sometimes we would like to have mask feather which is very usefull for instance for creating so popular recently fake reflections. As in this example:
Example of fake reflections created by mask feather.
Unfortunately in contrary to other adobe products flash doesn’t have such. But here goes work around.
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February 27, 2009
onRelease
Actionscript 2
mc1.onRelease = function() { } mc1.onRelease = null;
Actionscript 3
import flash.events.MouseEvent; // if on timeline we don't need this line mc1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mc1_click); function mc1_click(e) { } mc1.buttonMode = true; // to have hand cursor when over it mc1.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mc1_click); // to remove action
Further differences:
1. if something is covering it, it won’t work even if invisible it will not work
2. function need to have one parameter or it will not work.
3. we need to remeber to remove this listeners when not needed or we’ll cause memory leaks
February 23, 2009
Custom underline in TextField
I could find any way to make custom underline in TextField. The only what you can have from flash straight out the box is <u> tag which gives you plain line same colour as text. So if you want to have it different colour or style like dotted you need some workaroud. Asfaik you cannot set up it using StyleSheet and you cannot setup it using TextFormat. It’s not as imortant when you have Static Text cause then you can simply draw line on top of it. But it becomes important when you have Dynamic or Input Text. I will explain workaround on choosen scenario where we want to undescore all links (<a> tags) with blue dotted line inside of Dynamic Text Field. (more…)
June 22, 2008
New websites
I just installed couple of websites. This one, and http://nareszcie.com with forum http://forum.nareszcie.com and also http://websitespolice.com also with forum.