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By: Recorded Videos

Recorded Videos — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:55:12 +0000

thank you for – it helped me alot !

By: טכנאי מחשבים

טכנאי מחשבים — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:23:14 +0000

thank you for sharing this one!very usefull stuff!

By: mookstar

mookstar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:33:01 +0000

@DavidC – Yes, you do

@Paulie – it was even more illogical in AS2, but very easy to use for beginners

@Webmaster – useful tute, good stuff

kbai

By: Paulie

Paulie — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:33:19 +0000

OMG Actionscript is such a bodged language. Java programmer, the everything is extremely un-Java in my opinion.
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ClickMe)
function Clickme(e:MouseEvent){}

The examples I’ve seen used all over, I see people cutting and pasting this sort of function dozens of times.
And why doesn’t Clickme require a MouseClick event to be passed in?

Shouldn’t that be something like (I know this doesn’t work, but I’m trying to make a point!)
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ClickMe(New MouseEvent(), “myClickedValue”);
function Clickme(e:MouseEvent, String myString){
gotoAndBugger(myString);
}

I’ve played around with the API, some decent examples in the Documentation, but its a frustratingly illogical language IMO. With lack of decent Codecompletion, and vague Fuzzy typing, it makes for a real hacked mess. And why ‘e:String’ not ‘String e’? And why not public void function…not public function(mess):void?

Maybe more time will make things see less bodged.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:52:10 +0000

Event.MOUSE_LEAVE not MouseEvent.MOUSE_LEAVE

By: Shoomanitabib

Shoomanitabib — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:04:07 +0000

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By: james

james — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:05:05 +0000

I am currently a student at a technical college. My question concerns that of a Flash nature (I think). I want to create an image with lighting and shadows, but I want the the lighting and shadows to move with the position of the mouse, as if the mouse were the lightsource. I was wondering if this were possible, and if so, would the file size be excrutiatingly huge. I know this question may be very elementary, but, as i said before, I am a student who is still in the learning phase, and I think it would make a cool effect on my portfolio page.

By: DavidC

DavidC — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:18:30 +0000

Do I have to call this line “import flash.events.MouseEvent;” to use the mouse events?

By: Nick Helton

Nick Helton — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:20:57 +0000

Lanny thanks you so much for the bit about useCapture for releaseOutside, I could not figure out why this was not working for me and you saved me many future headaches