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Posted in Flash, Inside Idaho Airships, Inc. on Apr 25th, 2008
We ended up building our own 3D blimp since it’s next purposes are within Flash applications. I lathed a Hindenburg-modeled envelope…less the pyrotechnics, of course.
Posted in Flash on Apr 12th, 2008
If you have an hour to chop down a tree, spend 30 minutes sharpening your axe. Knowing and employing the target Property of your Event is analogous to sharpening your OOP axe.
Posted in Flash on Apr 10th, 2008
I really couldn’t get my head around Literals for an unreasonably long time. Simply reading that Literals are values “…that appear directly in the code” really didn’t work for me, and probably won’t for most aerial photographers, who have likely suffered the same number of hypoxic hours at altitude and a few too many high-G [...]
Posted in Flash on Apr 10th, 2008
If you’ve read our Event Framework post you should have a fundamental understanding of how Events in AS3 are structured. If you are just learning ActionScript 3, you’re probably ready for a little clarification on the organization of Event resources.
Posted in Flash on Mar 18th, 2008
The Document Class isn’t a predefined Class in ActionScript-it’s whatever Class you specify in your Document (.fla file) to serve as the root of the application. Thus, The Document Class serves as the DisplayObjectContainer into which all other components of your Documents DisplayObjects and DisplayObjectContainers will reside (aside from the Stage, of course…).
