Archive for the 'ActionScript 3' Category

February 10th, 2008

Lee’s New Event Generator Extension for Flash CS3!

If you are new to ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3, check out Lee’s new Flash CS3 extension for writing the event code.   Very handy if you are starting out.  Based on initial response and Lee providing the source code, I’m sure we’ll see some great enchancements to this extension.
http://theflashblog.com/?p=331

November 2nd, 2007

AS3: Getting the path of the HTML hosting the SWF

I was trying to get the full path of the HTML that is hosting the SWF in ActionScript 3.  I found this post by Abdul Qabiz detailing how to use ExternalInterface to call JS and return the location.   In his post, Abdul also details how to get any of the query string variables as well.
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October 29th, 2007

Flash: Every increasing system memory

A buddy of mine IM'd me last night and came across an interesting behaviour in Flash.  He had been trying to hunt down a memory leak in his Flash AS3 project and did a simple test using an Enter_Frame loop and traced out System.totalMemory.   His tests showed totalMemory going up just a little over time.  I [...]