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Ipoint interface | ActionScript 3.0 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on February 4th, 2014

It amazes me that ActionScript (AS3) does not have interfaces listed for all its classes. Often you want to create a class that inherits from something like MovieClip and MovieClip inherits all the way down a long list of classes. So you are left with ...

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Expected to find it in c:\program files\adobe\flex builder 3\lib\tools.jar

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on February 4th, 2014

##ANT Error with Flex Builder 3 and Windows XP command line## ##Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\lib\tools.jar## Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Right? But never fear, I eventually found the solution and that...

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Comment guerrilla activism

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on February 4th, 2014

Published originally on flash-actionscript-guru.com in 2008. This article is quite dated and is now standard practice for what is today called "activist trolling." Internet Guerrilla Activism: Using Internet Reviews and Comments to Hit Them Where It...

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Cubic bezier using beziersegment | ActionScript 3 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 27th, 2012

Fast Cubic Bezier in AS3 Because we use the machine code to do the calculations instead of doing them our self in interpreted AS3 this runs very fast. When you look up Cubic Bezier on the web you find a ton of math and a bunch of libraries for Act...

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Truncating a number | Setting the precision of a float | ActionScript 3. AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 27th, 2012

Truncating a Number or Floating Point in ActionScript 3.0 The Efficient Way I have seen a few solutions for truncating a Number. Many of these solutions used to truncate a float or Number in ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) are just plain over complicated and ...

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Scale error | Precision problems width, height, getbounds | ActionScript 3.0 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

##Precision Pitfalls Between getRect and Width/Height## Keep in mind when you are using var boundingBox:Rectangle = mc.getRect(coordSystem) or var boundingBox:Rectangle = mc.getBounds(coordSystem) the Rectangle returned will be of a greater precisi...

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Trace works but breakpoints are broken in flex debugger | ActionScript 3.0

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

I ran into a problem with the Flex Debugger not stopping on breakpoints. Here are somethings that could be wrong: 1.) The debugger and flex may not be connecting to fix this see here: [http://therush.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/resolved-flex-builder-3-d...

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Drupal nodewords token does not work for all metadata | Custom token

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

For Drupal 6 You installed nodewords and there is no token for any of the meta data except for metatags-description. What if you want a metatags-keywords or a metatags-abstract or any of the following: Canonical URL Copyright Description Keywords Rev...

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Reset Drupal MySQL password | Drupal 6 | SQL

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

If you have access to mysql through the root user and want to just change the drupal database user this will work for you. Otherwise check out [http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/07/how-to-reset-forgot-mysql-root-password-on-unix-linux-windows/](http...

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List of user ids from requests dialog | Migrating from fb:request-form to fb.ui apprequests | Facebook API | JavaScript | PHP

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

So the facebook requests dialog is not very well documented. It assumes you know how to do a few things in the documentation. For instance, the "GET /ID/" listed actually means in PHP: $result = $facebook->api('/'.$requestID.'/'); Here i...

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Hide a block on all admin pages | Drupal 6

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

There are two main ways to do disable a certain block on all admin pages. The first way involves using the administrative tools provided in the backend. The second uses custom script. -----------------------------------option 1 -----------------------...

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Merge documentation | Mailchimp | Drupal

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

If anyone has more complete information on this subject please comment below. If you installed the drupal MailChimp Module you might want to know how to "Merge Variables" If you were like me you created a list on mailchimp Added the Drupal Mai...

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Multiple row ul | Multi-line list | CSS | HTML

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

I wanted to have a list where each element wrapped according to its containers dimensions. Lets start first with the problem I had, then move on to the solution. So if you want the list to conform to the box and put as many list elements (LI) on each ...

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Exposed form in block change the action URL | Drupal 6 | Views | hook_form_alter

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

I created an exposed filter in views that shows up in a block. First I went to: admin/build/views/edit/archive_magazine and set the following: Exposed form Exposed form in block: Yes Exposed form style: Basic under : Exposed form I set : Exposed fo...

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Replace www with a subdomain | XAMPP | Mac | Localhost

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

After searching the web I found many articles that showed me how to set up my localhost to use subdomains but many missed critical steps. Most say there are 2 steps when sometimes there are 3 steps. For those of you who don't know what a subdomain is....

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Automatically save PHP class to database | PHP | Object mapping

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

Here is a class that you can use to save your models to the database every time they are changed. This allows the state of your object to persist. This will make sure that your model (class or object) is being stored and it will be mapped to the datab...

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Convert times to decimal | Google scripts | Spreadsheets | Toggl

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

If in a Google Docs spreadsheet you want to convert a row of values like "1:36:54" which represents (hours:minutes:seconds) to something like this "1.615" then you are in the right place. This is a script that will allow you...

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Bare bones Drupal theme | Custom Drupal theme

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

If you have ever tried to develop a Drupal theme from scratch or used the Garland theme or any other standard theme that comes with Drupal to build a custom theme, then we share the same pain. The first site I developed I customized a template but the ...

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Detecting an iframe with JavaScript

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

How do you tell if your content has loaded into an IFRAME container? I use a very simple JavaScript to detect an IFRAME. This can be used to determine if some one is loading your content into their external page without cross domain permisions...

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Remove redundant items from an array | ActionScript 3.0 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

The following code is an example of how to remove redundant elements from an Array.

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Mixing colors | Add 10 percent of one color to another | ActionScript 3.0 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

If you want to add one color to another and then set a movie clip to that tint I have provided the function below. The idea is to sort of mix colors in the way paint is mixed here is how you do it: Check out the RGB class here: [convert...

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Scrollbar in ActionScript 3.0 AS3 | Light weight and simple without flex

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

I was annoyed that I have to rely on bloated Flex components to do simple stuff. I ported the kirupa AS2 scrollbar to AS3 and then added a few touches to make it a little more versatile. It is really just a starting point. For example, if you are using...

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How to recursively traverse an XML object in AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

I found lots of examples on how to recusively parse through an XML object using E4X in ActionScript 3 (AS3). None of these examples were very simple or to the point. Most relied on the specifics of the XML instead of making general code that could acce...

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uint to 6 digit RGB hex | tostring(16) | ActionScript 3.0 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 24th, 2012

What if you want to get that 6 digit color value that is so commonly used in CSS/HTML, design programs, etc from the native way ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) stores an octal (0x00000F is stored as uint 15). I am talking about the number that has the pound or ...

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Example of get | Read only accessor | ActionScript 3 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on January 5th, 2012

##"get" example in AS3## Please post any other examples you may have in the comments. public function get toolTip():String{ return _toolTip; } Get is used to create read only properties on a class. It is used in combination ...

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Fl.controls not found, how do I import the fl package in ActionScript 3 AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on January 5th, 2012

Flash components are fantastic as long as you don't start customizing them. I never used them in AS2 because they would often access the root of my movie and add things that messed with my code. Now with ActionScript3 (AS3) Security settings, I can loa...

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How to exit a function in the middle and continue on with the code

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on January 5th, 2012

I saw a lot of searches for this so I decided to write an article about it. So you can jump out of a function at anytime using the "return;" command. Here is an example function test(isContinue):void{ var i:String = "bal bla ablababallaa...

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How to use variables in your XML declarations

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on January 5th, 2012

How to use variables for parts of your XML instead of static XML declarations. You can easily create XML through string manipulation like the following: var myXML = new XML("this is the link"); but this is slow and requires that the XML be...

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Tree menu with ActionScript AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on January 5th, 2012

##An Example of How to Customize a Tree Component## I came across some open source code developed by Yahoo! called the Yahoo Atra components. VERY HARD TO CUSTOMIZE! I found the documentation to be particularly inadequate for the degree that I wanted t...

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Code for a resizable window in AS3

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on January 5th, 2012

Flex handles window resizing really well so there is little need anymore to program your own custom window code. But for those of you who want a manually resizable window without loading some massive amount of flex code just to get resizable window cod...

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