Here is a code snippet that I have been using to create dropdown menus from movieclips in actionscript 3. I probably should try to wrap this up in a class as I bust out this snippet whenever I need this functionality. Usually when I have a ‘button’ that I need to have open up a larger movieclip with selectable/dynamic information in it. Would be nice to set a moviclip to be the ‘menu trigger’ (in the example: _sMouseOver) and another to be ‘the target’ (in the example: _sMenu) in a class… Maybe I will work on a class implementation later.

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In a project I was working on recently there was some information coming back from the database that I was displaying in a textfield. I didnt have any control of the text stored in the database and it was saying to ‘click the button above…’ but in this new interface we were designing, the button was below this textfield. I wrote a little function that replaced the word ‘above’ with ‘below’. Code after the break.

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Here is a quick snippet on how to automatically set an input textfield’s text to uppercase. (If you do it on the KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP event, the text will initially show as lowercase than change to uppercase.)

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text_txt.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, toUpperCase)
 
private function toUpperCase(evt:Event):void {
	evt.target.text = evt.target.text.toUpperCase();
}