Category Archives: ActionScript

Removing comments in CSS, HTML and ECMAScript (JavaScript)

Posted on 26/11/2011 by derRaab

While working on an Adobe AIR based source code editor I was looking for an easy way to remove comments from different kind of source codes. What first seemed like an easy regular expression turned out to be much more … Continue reading →

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Linked List Performance Test using Getter or Interface

Posted on 21/04/2011 by derRaab

Another test regarding linked lists. Since I heavily use interfaces within the frameworks I’m working on I tried to define interfaces for my linked list items. I would love to use an abstract interface but with the full linked list … Continue reading →

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FFK11 – beyond tellerrand notes

Posted on 08/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m still not sure if “beyond tellerrand” is a subtitle or will become the new brand for the one and only Flashforum conference here in germany. Sascha Wolter and Marc Thiele did a great job as always and even I … Continue reading →

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SWF meta tag

Posted on 04/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m always searching for it so here is a useful blogpost. As the latest FDT version ( Beta 4 ) does not set compiler arguments concerning SWF-size, framerate etc. by default I started using SWF-Metatags to specify these settings. I’m … Continue reading →

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Date.time vs. Date.setTime() getTime() performance

Posted on 24/03/2011 by derRaab

Using Date.setTime() and Date.getTime() is faster than Date.time. My quick speed test to determine the fastest way to get and set time values on Date objects: var date : Date = new Date(); var max : Number = date.time;   … Continue reading →

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Linked List Performance Test

Posted on 22/09/2010 by derRaab

I was thinking about not creating linked lists for every data type I use but using one abstract data structure containing my specific data types. So I wrote this short performance check: package de.superclass { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import … Continue reading →

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iPhone / iPad ActionScript Guide quotes

Posted on 17/09/2010 by derRaab

As I mentioned here I strongly recommend to read Adobe’s Building ADOBE® AIR® Applications with the Packager for iPhone® guide or Flash Platform for iPhone. Just some ActionScript facts: ActionScript APIs unsupported on mobile devices ActionScript APIs specific to mobile … Continue reading →

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Open Source Media Framework 1.0

Posted on 28/05/2010 by derRaab

Adobe recently released OSMF version 1.0! Again just some links: OSMF Blog – Announcing OSMF 1.0! Source ZIP Release Notes PDF ASDocs ZIP

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Flash Performance Visualizer

Posted on 26/05/2010 by derRaab

Mr.doop’s Hi-ReS! Stats is a must have for every ActionScript developer. Seems to be still no. 1! And I don’t want to search again… So here just the links: Mr.doop’s blog | Hi-ReS! Stats Mr.doop’s Stats.as @ GitHub Update – … Continue reading →

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Undocumented XMLUtil class in Adobe Flash CS5?

Posted on 18/05/2010 by derRaab

I tried to recompile an older Flash CS 4 project with Flash CS 5 but got this compile time error 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method reuseNodes through a reference with static type Class caused by the usage of … Continue reading →

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