ActionScript Scraps

This site for Moonbeam Films went live last week. It is AS3.0, XML controlled and uses the Gaia framework. It also uses the Google Maps API which is very easy to set up and use. http://www.moonbeamfilms.co.uk

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One of the most useful lines of code I have found in AS3 is the following:   while (numChildren > 0) removeChildAt(0)   This removes every child DisplayObject from the DisplayObject you run it on. Very useful for cleaning up after yourself. Another example:   while (myMc.numChildren > 0) myMc.removeChildAt(0);  

I was just put on to a great debugging tool called Arthropod. It is highly configurable (including password protection) and includes many very handy features such as being able to switch between standard window behaviour and staying ‘always on top’. Also you can take a screenshot of your stage and send the bitmap through and [...]

Here is a small and simple class I wrote this morning to create an animated rising sun. You can configure the number of segments and the size very easily.   package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event;   public class RisingSun extends Sprite { private var _segments :Number = 40; private var _rad :Number = 730; [...]