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AS3 Typewriter Text Effect

I had a need to use a typewriter text effect to populate text in a textfield. This was easily solved with two lines of code using the Greensock SplitTextfield class. 

import com.greensock.TweenMax;

import com.greensock.text.SplitTextField;

import com.greensock.easing.*;


var stf:SplitTextField = new SplitTextField(text_tf);

TweenMax.allFrom(stf.textFields, .01, {alpha:0}, .1);

You can still see the text fading in somewhat but I feel that it works well enough for my use.

2011
04/13
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Printing multi line XML while maintaining the formatting in PHP

A co-worker of mine introduced me to this tip for maintaining the formatting of multi line information in PHP; in this case it is XML. It uses heredoc. The syntax is basically three <<< and then the name of the type of variable...

Here is a code snippet of it in use:

<?php
 
echo <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<someNode>
	{$massiveAmountOfXML}
</someNode>
XML;
 
?>
2010
11/27
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HTTP Post in PHP without a Form

For one reason or another I had trouble getting this to work so I thought I would post my code snippet that I used here.

<?php
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', E_ALL);
 
class PostWithOutAForm {
 
	var $_returned_message;
	var $data = array();
 
	public function __construct() {	}
 
	public function callPong($msg) {
		$data['message'] = $msg;
 
		$post_str = '';
		foreach($data as $key=>$val) {
			$post_str .= $key.'='.urlencode($val).'&';
		}
		$post_str = substr($post_str, 0, -1);
 
		// Initialize cURL
		$ch = curl_init('http://localhost:8888/TargetOfPost.php');
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,				count($data));
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 		$post_str);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 	TRUE);
 
		// Execute...
		$output = curl_exec($ch);
 
		 if (!$output) {
			$output = curl_error($ch);
		}
		curl_close($ch);
 
		// Display the result
		return $output;
	}
}
?>
2010
11/24
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Conditional Switch Statements in AS3

This is something I wasn’t aware that you could do in a switch/case statement until recently.  A lot of times developers will handle this with nested if/else statements.

For Example:

var myNum:Number = 7;
 
switch (true)
{
  case (myNum < 5):
  trace ("< 5")
break;
 
case (myNum > 5):
  trace ("> 5")
  break;
}

Using switch (true)/switch (false) is pretty cool. You can use it for any sort of true/false comparisons, including comparing strings. The first one to evaluate true will trip the statement.

2010
11/12
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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
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Embed XML in AS3

There are two methods that I have found for for doing this. (Essentially the same thing, just depends on your coding style and how you want to keep things organized.)

Method 1:

  Embed XML (8.9 KiB, 135 hits)

package  {
 
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;
 
	public class EmbedXML extends MovieClip {
 
		[Embed(source="my.xml", mimeType="application/octet-stream")] 
		protected const EmbeddedXML:Class;
		private var _xml:XML;
 
		public function EmbedXML():void  {
			addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init, false, 0, true);
		}
 
		private function init(e:Event):void {
			//_xml = XML(new EmbeddedXML());
 
			var contentfile:ByteArray = new EmbeddedXML();
			var contentstr:String = contentfile.readUTFBytes( contentfile.length );
			_xml =  new XML( contentstr );
			trace(_xml);
		}
	}
}

Method 2:

  Embed XML Class (8.9 KiB, 103 hits)

//.as file that you embed the xml in
package {
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;
 
	[Embed(source="my.xml",mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
 
	public class MyXML extends ByteArray {
 
		public function MyXML():void {	}
	}
}
//usage:
package  {
 
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;
 
	public class EmbedXMLTwo extends MovieClip {
 
		private var _xml:XML;
 
		public function EmbedXMLTwo():void  {
			addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init, false, 0, true);
		}
 
		private function init(e:Event):void {
			//var myxml:MyXML = new MyXML();
			//_xml = XML (myxml);
 
			var contentfile:ByteArray = new MyXML();
			var contentstr:String = contentfile.readUTFBytes( contentfile.length );
			_xml =  new XML( contentstr );
			trace(_xml);
		}	
	}
}
2010
10/15
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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
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Load XML with LoaderMax

I did have my own set of classes that I use for loading files(images/xml etc) but since I use Greensock for tweening I figured I should use it for loading my assets as well.

//import the classes, u dont need easing for this but you should be using it
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.events.LoaderEvent;
import com.greensock.loading.*;
 
//above your class constructor function
private var _loaderMax:LoaderMax;
private var _xml:XML;	
 
//in your code where you want to use it
private function loadXML():void {
_loaderMax = new LoaderMax({name:"mainQueue", onComplete:completeHandler, onError:errorHandler});
_loaderMax.append( new XMLLoader("yourFile.xml", {name:"xmlDoc"}) );
_loaderMax.load();
}
 
private function completeHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
_xml = LoaderMax.getContent("xmlDoc");
}
 
private function errorHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
	trace("error occured with " + event.target + ": " + event.text);
}
2010
10/12
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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
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Cast XMLNode to Boolean – AS3

I was having a bit of difficulty making an xml node that had a value of true/false be cast properly as a Boolean. Turns out a good method is to when you are setting it, test it against a string value of true. The boolean will only be set to true if the string in your XML file is “true”.

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//Example
var myBoolean:Boolean = XML.isTrueFalse == "true";
2010
04/15
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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
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Convert links in text to clickable links in Flash AS3

I found this on StackOverflow but it took quite a bit of searching to find. Here you go:

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title_str = title_str.replace(/((https?|ftp|telnet|file):((\/\/)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%\/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&]*)/g, "<u><a href='$1'>$1</a></u>");
2010
03/18
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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
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Drop Down Menu with AS3

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.

  AS3 Mouse Over Menu (15.4 KiB, 731 hits)

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2010
01/26
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AS3 – Load XML Document Class Example

One thing that I do quite often in Flash is load XML. In order to save time, I separated a lot of that code out into external class files. I also created a snippet of code that calls those files in order to save time when I want to use them. (You will need Lee Brimlow’s snippets panel for this to work.)

The LoadXML and LoadURL classes are probably very similar to those found at Learning Actionscript 3 as that is where I learned a lot about this topic previously. Hope you find this helpful!

  Load XML files (774.5 KiB, 471 hits)

Code snippet (for the panel) after the break…

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2009
11/18
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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
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