I am currently working on a Flash animation that must deal with simultaneous management of dynamically created, autonomous MovieClips and the management of data obtained from various XML feeds from the Internet. It’s basically a RSS Aggregator in which RSS items are represented by a graphical symbol. All must be generated using ActionScript, meaning the [...]

Once more I trip on the flowers of the carpet. To easy my game making, it was necessary to build a Flash application that would make the process of drawing my maps a visual process. That idea worked pretty well, especially because Flash supplies competent User Interface objects I wouldn’t have to make myself.
A problem [...]

Introduction
For about 2 years now, I wanted to make a full blown flash game. I’ve done a few unfinished sketches, have tried to build an adventure game engine, then I tried doing an RPG engine, then followed a simulation game, and then I tried making an RPG again. Hell, I even tried to make a [...]

The use of a static method to delegate events in Flash is one of the easiest ways of associating functions to an event.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble having Event (clicks, loads, etc…) in Flash for as long as I’ve been doing Object-Oriented ActionScript. I barely managed to call inline functions and having to use the absolute path to the property. Example:
class Foo {
public var _someProperty:String
public function Foo() {
// Lets skip how I actually make the [...]

One of my current assignments at work is to make something similar to Google Maps for my employer’s Oil website. I must build a map browser that is completely dynamic that will need to generate 3 dynamic layers for 3 different types of maps of Oil Wells.
I decided on making this using Flash, just like [...]

Macromedia have brought a lot more depth into Flash by adding pre-compiled components (or movie clips) to the software’s library. Mostly available only in the professional edition, these components make building application faster and easier.
One of the components I’ve played with it the Window object. It’s simple to understand and it’s possible to create a [...]