First of this tutorial targets FDT 4 only and there is no guarantee that this works properly for everybody! So better leave this alone if you are not sure what you are doing. Furthermore you’ll not be able to use Flex...
These are code templates for AS3 Signals by Robert Penner. You can download the XML file to import into FDT. What’s inside I created the following templates: Add Signal – added to stage Click Signal Mouse Over...
This post addresses people who want to replace events with Signals. I had some problems figuring out how to do it so I want to share. In my latest project I am making heavy use of Robert Penner’s AS3 Signals framework...
What is Nimble? Nimble is an open source and lightweight framework to easily achieve a fluid layout within a Flash application using ActionScript 3.0. But what do I mean with the phrase “fluid layout”? Let’s...
After all the posts and discussions of the last weeks I can’t hold on my opinion anymore. Seriously this discussion is out of control. It started fairly well with the flash community frustration as Apple unveiled their...
Continuing with the ActionScript performance series, I want to tell you a tweak on for-loops. So let’s start with the examples right away. The regular syntax Usually everybody learned to write a for-loop like this: private...
As the Flash community rapidly walks towards the mobile devices, we especially need to think about how well our code performs. On a mobile device, the hardware specs are much lower than on a regular desktop pc, hence, for...
Aiden Tailor is a freelance ActionScript 3 & web developer ⁄ designer
