DZone Snippets: as3 code

sys font alpha in as3

deafmetal (noah aronsson-brown) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:30:36 GMT

// apply a filter to a system font in order to adjust alpha



myTextField.filters = [new BlurFilter(0,0,0)];

myTextField.alpha = 0.5;

Single-Line commenting in Actionscript with Textmate

sikelianos (Zeke Sikelianos) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:49:14 GMT

- open the bundle editor and select the Actionscript bundle
- use the add button to make a new preference item, give it a scope of source.actionscript
- name it whatever
- paste in the following:



{   shellVariables = (

        {   name = 'TM_COMMENT_START';

            value = '// ';

        },

    );

}

- that's it! got these instructions on IRC from Infininight: http://pastie.textmate.org/private/clmfldbv2sexjcd7u6qjw

AS3 FlashVars equivalent: LoaderInfo

sikelianos (Zeke Sikelianos) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:25:17 GMT

// Add this to your package..
import flash.text.*;

// And throw this in wherever..
var t:TextField = new TextField();
t.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
t.border = true;
addChild(t);

t.appendText("params:" + "\n");
try {
var key:String;
var val:String;
var flashvars:Object = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters;
for (key in flashvars) {
val = String(flashvars[key]);
t.appendText("\t" + key + ":\t" + val + "\n");
}
} catch (error:Error) {
t.appendText(error);
}

Make AS3 clips turn cursor into a hand on rollover..

sikelianos (Zeke Sikelianos) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:11:23 GMT



  buttonMode = true; 

  mouseChildren = false;

AS3 SwapDepths Equivalent

sikelianos (Zeke Sikelianos) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:30:34 GMT



function move_to_top() {

  // This will move the current object to the topmost z-index

  parent.setChildIndex(this, parent.numChildren-1);

}

inspect as3 type

yuanyc (yuanyunchang) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:16:56 GMT

// description of your code here



trace(describeType(TYPE-NAME));