This article describes the differences well: A key difference between casting and the as operator is the behavior on failure. When a cast fails in ActionScript 2, null is returned. When a cast fails in ActionScript 3, a TypeError is thrown. With the as operator in ActionScript 3, whenever a cast fails the default value … Read more
This is my generic solution for the problem (I have blogged about this here): var toFixed:Function = function(number:Number, factor:int) { return Math.round(number * factor)/factor; } For example: trace(toFixed(0.12345678, 10)); //0.1 Multiply 0.12345678 by 10; that gives us 1.2345678. When we round 1.2345678, we get 1.0, and finally, 1.0 divided by 10 equals 0.1. Another example: … Read more
Documents I’ve found helpful are: Optimizing Performance for the Adobe Flash Platform ActionScript 3.0 and AVM2 Performance Tuning by Gary Grossman Building High Performance iPhone Applications by Mike Chambers Some highlights: Choose appropriate display objects One of the most simple optimization tips to limit memory usage is to use the appropriate type of display object. … Read more
With the few details mentioned in your questions, I think this is a problem of text appearance of your dynamic text field which is in a direct relationship with embedding fonts in your Flash project. To avoid such behavior, you can take a look on these links : Adobe Help : Embed fonts for consistent … Read more
To avoid that Flash player blocks your local swf to access to an external URL (internet, …) or to communicate with javascript or some other actions that fire usually a security sandbox violation error, you have to add it (the swf) to the list of trusted locations like this : For Flash Player PPAPI (like … Read more
Edit: Version 1.5.0 (July 2017) of the Extensions to the PNG 1.2 Specification has finally added an EXIF chunk. It remains to be seen if encoders-decoders begin to support it. Original: PNG does not embed EXIF info. It allows, however, to embed metadata “chunks” inside the image. Some of the standardized chunks correspond to a … Read more
The theoretical answers from everyone else are all neat, but let’s be pragmatic. ActionScript provides the tools you need so that you don’t even have to write a loop in this case! First, note that Math.min() and Math.max() can take any number of arguments. Also, it’s important to understand the apply() method available to Function … Read more
If your language supports postive lookahead assertions, then I think the following regex will work: (\d)(?=(\d{3})+$) Demonstrated in Java: import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals; import org.junit.Test; public class CommifyTest { @Test public void testCommify() { String num0 = “1”; String num1 = “123456”; String num2 = “1234567”; String num3 = “12345678”; String num4 = “123456789”; String regex … Read more
It’s actually quite easy to do… There are some libraries out there to do it for you: PHP Nonce Library OpenID Nonce Library Or if you want to write your own, it’s pretty simple. Using the WikiPedia page as a jumping off point, In pseudo-code: On the server side, you need two client callable functions … Read more
Transform the coordinates of all four corners Find the smallest of all four x’s as min_x Find the largest of all four x’s and call it max_x Ditto with the y’s Your bounding box is (min_x,min_y), (min_x,max_y), (max_x,max_y), (max_x,min_y) AFAIK, there isn’t any royal road that will get you there much faster. If you are … Read more