Peng Zhang on October 28th, 2009

I ran into a couple of bizarre problems when I had to add a module to a completed Flash project. First of all, my project is a main Flash movie that dynamically loads individual modules. The main movie is published to Flash Player 10 using AS3, and the individual modules are published to Flash Player [...]

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Peng Zhang on October 2nd, 2009

The Timer object can be a source of problems in actionscript 3 projects. In my recent project, I needed to do some script-based animation on a frame, and I used TweenLite (a great animation engine) to create a sequence of animations, and I needed the animation to repeat the sequence on and on until the [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 17th, 2009

Finally updated the eKnowledge Suite site with an enhanced menu, based on a flash component, but with lots of customization that I had to created. Out of the box, the menu was not capable of indicating the current location. And there are a few other minor issues that got ironed out. The AS code is [...]

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Peng Zhang on June 13th, 2009

I have been using the Tween class built into Flash for animation. Yes, it is a bit tedious to set up a simple animation. I have to create a bunch of Timer objects in order to sequence the action if there is more than one animation. The other way would be to add event listeners [...]

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