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Ruben Swieringa on Actionscript and a whole lot of other stuff..

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Alias for ASDoc @see

You may have noticed that when using the @see tag in your ASDocs, that it uses the actual hyperlink-address as a text. In short, stating @see com.somedomain.MyClass will look somewhat like ../../com/somedomain/MyClass.html in the generated documentation. However, some time ago I discovered that you can actually use aliases to make your @see’s look prettier, just [...]

‘some basic async stuff’

..or so he calls it. My good friend Michael Avila, Roger Braunstein and Jeff Yamada made this way awesome system for asynchronous action-handling in Actionscript3.0. I suggest you go check it out: some basic async stuff – kirupaForum We knew ahead of time that we’d be dealing with a lot of the obvious stuff like [...]

Event.bubbles, Event.cancelable, and Event.currentTarget

Perhaps some of you may not know this, but event-bubbling in Actionscript3.0 is way cool and well worth your attention. So read on. With event-bubbling you can let one Event subsequently call on every ancestor (containers of containers of etc.) of the DisplayObject that originally dispatched the Event, all the way up to the surface [...]

Book beta bug-fixes & simple demo

Yesterday I got back from my holidays with Dave in Nottingham, so today I decided to fix some major bugs in the Book beta. In the first beta a page-corner would sometimes ‘stick’ to the user’s mouse (dubbed the sticky-page bug). The second bug was that when the user would open the Book and then [...]

Flex book component (beta)

So here it is, the beta version of my Flex Book component. The source-code is included and free for all of you to look into (mind that it is licenced under a Creative Commons licence). Demo Source Documentation UPDATE: I also created a simpe demo to demonstrate the simplicity of using the Book classes, you [...]