Archive for the ‘ActionScript 2’ Category

Accurate Timing in ActionScript

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

@Update: 23rd May 2008. Small refactoring of the code without changing the interface, the .zip archive now includes a working example. There are many things that require timing when programming, for me the challenge is accurately timing how long a user has been viewing a video for. There are ...

NetStream onMetaData – IE7 Focus Bug

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Came across a weird bug when working with Flash's NetStream media playback object and Internet Explorer 7.  I'm still not 100% sure what the problem is here, but it would appear that when Internet Explorer doesn't have focus (ie, you are working in another window), the NetStream object in flash ...

MovieClips and Object Scope in AS2

Friday, May 4th, 2007

I am a relative new-commer to ActionScript 2 but I am picking things up quickly. One thing that tripped me up at first was understanding how MovieClips on the Main Stage relate to the clasess we write and the objects that they spawn. My initial solution to the problem was ...