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WTF? Firefox!

You won’t hear me often say this, but what is Mozilla’s deal? The last couple of days I’ve had to run multiple updates a few days straight? Have they done proper testing before releasing? This is starting to get on my nerves. My thought is let the first developer/ dev team / open [...]

Another use for ‘this’

So just as I was looking over the lase post about ‘this’. I realized that I skipped one of the best uses for the infamous property of ‘this’. Enough talk, more actionscript (sorry terrible pun).
So imagine this. Lets say that we have class A which creates an instance of class B. [...]

This is a good time to use ‘this’

I know for a lot of actionscript coders out there, especially beginners, ‘this’ in can be rather confusing. This issue can spark some pretty heated debates about this proper use. So before diving in here is a short explanation of ‘this’. In actionscript the object the code is currently running in is [...]

Interactive Forest

From my previous post, animation.Float, I had the basic example of the animation class that I wrote to simulate dandelion seeds floating in the wind.  Well I had some free time this weekend and decided to keep my AS3 skills sharped and went on to add interactivity!    Depending on the location of your mouse will [...]

Cartoons made in Flash

My first job in Flash was animating a children cartoon series. I had always drawn pictures and such as a child but freshly graduated I had no experience in animation. At first it was very frustrating to get any cartoons done, but I finally had a break through and this job became such [...]

animation.Float

Part of my slowly growing animation package for AS2 and AS3. To browse my different classes and packages in Flash actionscript visit my classes download page or go to my downloads page to directly download the AS code.