web development, usability, analytics

If you need to perform an animation and have it be standard when viewed across different machines, it is best to use an onEnterFrame event. I had a need in a project recently to draw a circle in a specified amount of time. I had been using the Timer class but found major time discrepancies between running the code locally and running the code in a browser. With some code that Jackson Dunstan provided, I was able to modify the animation so that you can start/stop drawing the circle based on user input. (In the sample provided it is by clicking the stage) I hope this helps someone in a similar situation. Code after the jump…

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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.)

text_txt.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, toUpperCase)

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

In a project I was on, I had a need to draw a circle in a certain amount of time and it proved to be a bit of a pain. So here is my code (with some ugly comments) that I used to do it.

Code after the jump.

  Draw a Circle (6.7 KiB, 397 hits)

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