http://www.learningactionscript3.com A digital supplement for the O'Reilly book Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:23:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the companion website for Learning ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly). Ideally, you have found your way here after acquiring a copy of the book, and you are looking for further information about material referenced therein. If you're new to this site, please continue reading. If you are a veteran to ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/02/welcome/ The latest Flash Professional update, 11.0.1, does not modify the version number in the About box. This is because the update adds and alters support files but does not update the application binary. It's a natural habit to look at the version number for confirmation that the update was successful. Seeing ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/07/01/how-to-confirm-flash-professional-update-1101/ Here is a partial set of files from my Tips and Tricks session at this year's fabulous Flashbelt conference. (The remainder of the material covered revolved around live demos or use of code by those a lot smarter and more talented than I. More information is in the archive.) Thanks to ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/06/16/flashbelt-2010-tips-and-tricks-session/ Update: To answer some of the questions coming in, Flash CS5 still uses AS3. ActionScript 3.0 is the core scripting language of the Flash Platform. Flash still supports AS1/2 as well as AS3, but Flash Builder 4, Flex Builder 3, the Flex SDK (command line compile) FDT, Flash Develop, AIR, ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/05/10/flash-cs5-still-uses-as3/ We're trying to organize possible improvements to our book, Learning ActionScript 3.0 (O'Reilly) and we're looking for opinions about which changes are needed. 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 ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/03/12/advisory-board/ Some of you may have seen these preliminary test images images on my flickr: 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 ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2010/02/24/collecting-colors/ Over at LearningFlashCS4.com, I posted the files from my Flash on the Beach presentation on IK in Flash CS4 Pro. You can read about it here, and look for more posts on the subject in the future. http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2009/09/21/inverse-kinematics-in-flash-cs4-fotb09/ Back in late October of last year I started up a new website called ActionSnippet.com. I created the site because I really enjoy reading code - I often skip all the paragraphs in a blog post and just go straight for the code. A new code snippet is posted ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2009/06/30/as3-tips-tricks-and-experiments/ Making image galleries in flash is very common. There are lots of different approaches, but the basic concepts stay the same. They're usually XML driven and they usually have external image files that are dynamically loaded into Flash. This post contains an image gallery shell that builds off of the ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2008/12/12/grids-image-gallery/ One of the questions about ActionScript 3 that I am most often asked is how to send arguments to a listener function along with an event. Recently, a reader named Jim asked just such a question. To provide some background for this question, you could send argument data to a ... http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2008/11/11/passing-arguments-with-events/