Inside a ScrollPane I created a series of input TextFields and gave each an instance name, a unique tabIndex and set tabEnabled to true. The end result was supposed to be a list of input TextFields you could easily tab through. No such luck, seems the cursor just gets stuck in the first TextField. Found […]

I’ve never really had much use for the Flash DataGrid until a recent project. One of the tasks involved updating a field of a certain row. I was doing it like: this.datagrid_clinicians.dataProvider[clinician_index].total_presentations–; Essentially, there is an array of objects. One of the object properties is called “total_presentations”. The above line tell a specific DataGrid row […]

Everyone knows that to update your browsers Flash player you just need to visit the Adobe site and follow the “Get Flash” links. Pretty simple stuff, however doing this does not update the Player that the IDE uses, which is the same one used when you open a swf on its own off your HDD. […]

I wanted to test something with different colors, turns out it’s easy to pick a random color: var box:Shape = new Shape(); var random_color:Number = <strong>Math.random() * 0xffffff;</strong> box.graphics.beginFill(random_color, 1); box.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 100, 100); box.graphics.endFill(); this.addChild(box);

Just had to desaturate a clip and then return it to normal. Code wise it’s rather simple, the following turns a MovieClip with an instance name of test to grey: // Make Grey var r:Number=0.212671; var g:Number=0.715160; var b:Number=0.072169; var matrix:Array = []; matrix = matrix.concat([r, g, b, 0, 0]);// red matrix = matrix.concat([r, g, […]