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It’s a natural habit to look at the version number for confirmation that the update was successful. Seeing 11.0.0.485 after an update may prompt you to try the process again even though it may not be necessary. Ideally, this will save you some time.

The easiest way to see that the update was applied is to look for iPad support in your Publish Settings. Check the menu File > Publish Settings: Flash “tab” > Player drop down to make sure it says iPhone OS. In addition, clicking the resulting Settings button will show iPad in the Device drop down menu in the middle of the settings dialog.

You can also check for a successful update without opening Flash by checking an AIR version number:

Windows:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5\en_US\Configuration\External Libraries\Air2_0.dll

MAC:
/Applications/Adobe Flash CS5/Common/Configuration/External Libraries/Air2_0.bundle

The version number after the update should be 11.0.0.489. (Thanks to Nivesh Rajbhandari, for confirmation on the external file version.)

Thanks to Dave Schroeder and everyone at Flashbelt, as well as all the speakers and attendees, for another great conference. I saw less of the show this year due to other obligations, but still had a great time. Next year, it’s vacation time!

Flashbelt 2010 Tips and Tricks Partial Source

We hope to have exchanges with readers that have specific suggestions about ways to simplify, clarify, or otherwise improve the text. Our current thinking is that comments aren’t the best way to get this kind of detail, especially when we expect reader opinions to differ.

So, we’re planning to create an advisory board of sorts. We’re thinking about asking which chapters readers have had questions about, or possibly assign chapters to folks who might look for problem areas. Then we’re considering creating an email group of some kind where we can ask everyone to contribute to a topic, and follow-up with specific emails.

If you’re interested in improving LAS3, please use the contact form to send us an email. Let us know how you’d like to help, and how to get in touch. Please be sure to use the “Advisory Board LAS3″ subject so your email will be routed correctly.

We really want to consider reader opinions and try to develop improvements along requested lines. We hope you can help!

If your up for it …. i am working on collecting colors and words for use with this project … so watch the video (below) and go to the link (below) you will be able to make a contribution.

LEARN ABOUT THE TOOLS
video, (may not all make sense but the tool is shown which is the important part)

POPULATE THE DB
population tool add some colors

I have a smart filter that checks for people doing weird things like curses etc… so don’t bother trying to do that.

Additional info here, scroll down to see our presentation about the project

I would have linked to ActionSnippet.com sooner but I wasn't sure what direction the site would go in, so I wanted to give it some time to evolve before linking to it. After approximately 260 code snippet posts I can safely say there is much more useful/educational code on ActionSnippet.com than there is weird useless experimental code.

In this post I'd like to highlight a handful of useful snippets for everyday projects and I'll link to a few advanced graphical snippets. If you just want to dig right in, you can look at the all posts page which is just a list of every code snippet on the site.

As you read each of the following descriptions, consider opening Flash, pasting the code into timeline script and testing the swf.

FileReference.save()

This is one of my favorite features of Flash 10. We can save any kind of file to a user's computer using the FileReference.save() method. Its first argument is for the data to put in the file. This can be a String, ByteArray, or XML object. The second argument is the name of the file.

If you paste this code in your timeline all you need to do is click the stage and you'll get a dialogue asking where you would like to save the file "actionsnippet.txt".

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To provide some background for this question, you could send argument data to a standard function like this?

function showMsg(msg:String):void {
    trace(msg);
}
showMsg("Claire");

However, in an event listener, only one argument is allowed in the listener function: the argument responsible for receiving the event data. Using a standard mouse click listener as an example...

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showMsg, false, 0, true);
function showMsg(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    trace("hello");
}

...the kind of question asked is, can you do something like this:

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showMsg, "hello",
                       false, 0, true);
function showMsg(evt:MouseEvent, msg:String):void {
    trace(msg);
}

The answer is, not out of the box. The existing AS3 events do not provide for this capability. However, to answer Jim's question, the best way to pass arguments with an event is to create your own event class by extending AS3's Event class.

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