ActionScript 4.0 Revealed

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iOS — awesome, smooth etc, but there’s no customization at all. No widgets? Come on, it’s the 21 century… Installing apps only via the AppStore sucks. iTunes, god i hate Steve and his crew for it. Other than that, it’s a great os.

Win7 — awesome for non-iT people (my mom just loves it). Simple, enormous icons, all the needed info on a single screen, support for native apps (win8 promises). As for drawbacks: no customization (even less than in iOS), actually you can’t change anything except for the icons on the desktop.

Android — awsome. Fully customizable (you can even define the transition duration, delay, type for system notifications etc). Widgets, custom apps, mass storage mode, boot loader etc. Cons: only one — apparently you will have to wait another 1/2 year until your phones company adopts the next version of android. That’s why if decide to by an android phone, make sure it to be from Google (they get the latest updates asap).

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I guess I’m just that pain in the ass who screws with polls. I’m voting Windows Phone, simply because f**k Android and f**k Apple.

AlignUtil.setAlign(AlignUtil.H_CENTER, bannerTxt, mc, true);
AlignUtil.setAlign(AlignUtil.V_MIDDLE, bannerTxt, mc, true);

You are welcome

But Excellent work!!

Thanks for sharing this class. Just trying to use it to align a textfield in a movieclip

But the AlignUtil.V_MIDDLE doesn’t seem to work, can you please help me how i can use it. Here is the code. I need horizontal and vertical center the textfield.

AlignUtil.setAlign(AlignUtil.H_CENTER, bannerTxt,this,false)
AlignUtil.setAlign(AlignUtil.V_MIDDLE, bannerTxt,this,false)

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However I discovered another problem is the mouse over area.
I have set the vimeoPlayer not at [0,0], but the mouse over area (to show/hide the control bar) still lying at [0,0] all the time.
i.e. if I set my vimeo player: x=200, y=100, width=400, height=300
the mouse over area: x=0, y=0, width=400, height=300

moogaloop.addEventListener(“finish”, onFinishHandler);
private function onFinishHandler(event:Event):void
{
seekTo(0);
}

Then I tried your 2nd solution but still not working.
I’ve create a dynamic textfield called “a”, assigned it to be “0″, then do the following:

function onVimeoPlayerApiReady(event:Event):void{
vimeoPlayer.player.addEventListener(“finish”, onFinishHandler);
MovieClip(root).a.text=”1″;
}
function onFinishHandler(event:Event):void{
vimeoPlayer.seekTo(0);
MovieClip(root).a.text=”2″;
}

The result is, when the vimeo starts playing, it changes to “1″. And after it finished, didn’t change to “2″.
I wonder if “finish” Event handler is working or not. Is there other methods to check whether the vimeo has finished the playback?

moogaloop.addEventListener("finish", onFinishHandler);

private function onFinishHandler(event:Event):void
{
 // since i've already implemented the the seek() method, just call it
 seekTo(0);
}

If you want to listen for that event outside the class i.e. on the class instance, you will have to create a reference to the moogaloop in the class and add a listener on the linked moogaloop reference:
VimeoPlayer.as add:

public function get player():Object
{
 return (moogaloop) ? moogaloop : null;
}

How to use:

var vimeoPlayer:VimeoPlayer = new VimeoPlayer();
vimeoPlayer.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onVimeoPlayerApiReady)
vimeoPlayer.setSize(550, 360);
vimeoPlayer.load("video link here");
addChild(vimeoPlayer);

function onVimeoPlayerApiReady(event:Event):void
{
  // now since we can reference to the actual moogaloop we add listener
  vimeoPlayer.player.addEventListener("finish", onFinishHandler);
}
function onFinishHandler(event:Event):void
{
  vimeoPlayer.seekTo(0);
}

I tried the following, but doesn’t work:

vimeoPlayer.addEventListener("finish",BackToBegining);
function BackToBegining(event:Event):void{
            e.target.seek(0);
}

Thx!

// Moogaloop player api link
private static const VIMEO_LINK:String = "http://a.vimeocdn.com/p/flash/moogaloop/5.1.24/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=%clip_id%&width=%width%&height=%height%&fullscreen=0&disable_keyboard=1";

I’m using your .as file to embed my vimeo videos into swf. Thanks!
BTW, I’d like to know if I can customize the player:
autoplay=1
title=0
portrait=0

Should I edit the .as file? and How?
Or done by actionscript??
thx

“I mean why getter/setter? In that code it’s totally equal to public var.”
>> habit ^_^

ps: хм.. должны, я проде не отключал

var frameCounter:uint = 0;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);

var timer:Timer = new Timer(5);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
timer.start();

function onEnterFrame(event:Event):void
{
trace(“frame “, ++frameCounter);
}

function onTimer(event:TimerEvent):void
{
trace(“timer”);
}

output:
frame 1
timer
frame 2
timer
frame 3
timer
timer
timer
timer
frame 4
timer
timer
timer
timer
timer
frame 5
timer
timer
timer
timer
timer
frame 6
timer
timer
timer
frame 7

4. I mean why getter/setter? In that code it’s totally equal to public var.

PS: что-то уведомления о комментах не приходят на почту.. или и не должны?

> Queue#(item:IQueueItem):void – why not check for item existence?
hm… nice suggestion, put in the todo
UPD: nope, as it depends on the task, you might want to add same item at different indexes. it’s better to implement the contains() method, so that you check for item existence if needed

> Queue#addItemAt(item:IQueueItem, index:int):void / Queue#removeItemAt(index:int):Boolean – why not use uint instead of int type
int is faster

> Queue#removeItem(item:IQueueItem):Boolean – is the for loop faster than indexOf?
yeap, indexOf is slower

> What’s the point in items, position setter/getters?
items – so that you could get the entire stack (just in case)
position – so that you could manage to skip items while running the queue. In the demo above follow these steps: run the queue, pause at any desired index (10 for instance), after that change the current head position to 15 (that would skip the items from 10-14) and press the start button.

Comments are much appreciated btw

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1. Queue#(item:IQueueItem):void – а не проверять ли на наличие
> можно, добавлю.
> UPD: неа, я тут подумал, и понял, что это зависит от задачи, возможно ты захочешь пихнуть в стек один и тот де айтем на разных индексах (всякое бывает). Лучше добавить метода contains(), как раз на тот случай, когда необходима уникальность айтметов в стеке.

2. Queue#addItemAt(item:IQueueItem, index:int):void – а почему не uint?
> int шустрее, проверку добавлю, да.

3. Queue#removeItem(item:IQueueItem):Boolean – цикл быстрее indexOf?
> цикл шустрее

4. Смысл геттеров/сеттеров для items, position?
> чтобы можно было получить доступ к стеку для, скажем назначения другой очереди (ну, так, на всякий случай). position нужен для управления “головкой” ^_^ чтобы на любом этапе выполениня можно было ей управлять (допустим, пропустить пару айтемов после паузы)

Спасибо за комент, выкачу апдейт ^_^

Ну и так всякие поверхностные вопросы:

1. Queue#(item:IQueueItem):void
а не проверять ли на наличие

2. Queue#addItemAt(item:IQueueItem, index:int):void
а почему не uint — так не нужно было бы проверять if(index < 0
ну и опять таки проверка на наличие?

Queue#removeItemAt(index:int):Boolean

3. Queue#removeItem(item:IQueueItem):Boolean
цикл быстрее indexOf?

4. Смысл геттеров/сеттеров для items, position?

I’ll take a look to your graph stuff too :
For the moment i am using :
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/
witch is really good and free

TAP >> awesome chars u made there. Btw i think your charts may be of use for our new project. I’ll contact u via email soon.

ps: no, really love the video and audio html5 tag and the ccs3, but guys large html5 mvc project, on js? Seriously? ^_^

Google PR in response: “These aren’t the SVG and JS code you are looking for…”
Readers: “Yes this is a faked case”
Google PR: “Move along, move along”
Readers: “Stoopid Flash guy making a case for a dying tech”

[end-snark]

Cross compilers aren’t new tech, it will be imperfect at best and don’t get into performance. BTW Flash 5/6 what are we going back approaching 10 years?

I don’t care either way, we make our charting stuff work in both and have found that the nonsense that passes for discussion on this topic is sad. I am personally happy you at least tried the tool (we did too) before hyping or slagging it.

Best,
Andrew

This tutorial fully help me..

import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.display.LineScaleMode;
this.graphics.lineStyle(2,0,1,true, LineScaleMode.NORMAL);

Do you have this same issue?

(I posted a bug report and found my way around it, but thought it funny to come across this when I was just hacking around with the draw API myself )

You are always very kind to readers like me and assist me to in my living. Thank you……