One of a handful of local storage options for PhoneGap applications is the localStorage solution which is actually part of the W3C specs. It provides access to a W3C Storage interface since we are just dealing with HTML5 in PhoneGap.… Read More

Away3D 4.1 Beta and Away Builder 0.9 Alpha released Features & Improvements As well as what seems like an endless list of bugfixes, the release has seen a string of new features added. Most notable are spritesheets animators and a… Read More

I wanted to support internationalisation on a pretty complex Flex project that was sharing some Components and Skins using Flex Libraries (swc files). I have spent a good amount of time searching for documentation and its just not there, the… Read More

While working on an application I ran across a huge bottleneck which I isolated down all the way to the use of the iconv_substr function. If you ever wonder which is better to use, this should help your decision: Benchmark… Read More

While working on an application I ran across a huge bottleneck which I isolated down all the way to the use of the iconv_substr function. If you ever wonder which is better to use, this should help your decision: Benchmark… Read More

Flash Player 11 & Stage3d goodies round-up: [Lab] BezierPaths AS3-LocaleManager Drawscript, plugin for Illustrator that turns vector shapes into the code SWF-MP3-Looper String.charCodeAt Is Really Fast Fifty shaders of grey Smooth Flash resizing in webkit browsers Making sense of Scout,… Read More

BezierPaths, always a fun subject. These paths can be used for smooth lines, car drive behaviours or even cable / string simulations. To get a better understanding of the BezierPath, we need to start with a simpler version…the Cubic Bezier… Read More

I posted a question to the apple developer list which received a wonderful answer. My question was basically how can I transform a string with a spelled-out number as the numeric equivalent. “Three” becomes “3″, “twelve” becomes “12″, etc. without… Read More

Some simple tricks must be included to reverse display list objects in AS3 and that trick uses name MovieClip property, getChildByName and swapChildrenAt methods. Let's see code first. import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.*; import flash.events.MouseEvent; var temp:MovieClip = new box(); for… Read More

TweetIn web application architecture, there is usually a file that has system configuration info. In objective c development, there is a file called {name}.plist and it has some information regarding your application. This is how you can get a specific… Read More

I recently discovered something about the spark GridColumn. You can pass in a complex type for the dataField.Say for example that your dataProvider is a collection of Users:public class User{ public var name:String; public var id:String; public var manager:User;}You can… Read More

Yep… still doing as3 and flex. So the issue is this: The current database table that stores a phone number basically has a column for area code, a column for the phone number prefix and then a column for the… Read More

We need a replace all method.… Read More

Learn how to take advantage of join split to replace content within a string. This tutorial is based on a real user question and will help you isolate the issue of join/split when it doesn't work.<strong>Category:&hellip;</strong>Flash Tips & Read More

We need a replace all method.&hellip; Read More

We need a replace all method.&hellip; Read More

Learn how to transfer basic types such as Number, int, uint, String, and Boolean data between ActionScript 3 and C.&hellip; Read More