Category Archives: technology

Fix the Focus Rect for fl.controls.TextInput in AS3

May 28, 2009 – 3:35 pm

The AS3 components in CS4 allow for visually showing that the component is focused, using a code generated or libary asset sprite as the focusRect. This can be changed using the focusRect property or through the #setStyle method inherited by all UIComponent’s. The outlying size of the focusRect can also be altered by setting the [...]

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Line-width on Shapes in Flash, and scale9Grid Results

May 20, 2009 – 3:18 pm

A quick note regarding something I’ve been meaning to post a short note about for a while, for those that might be running into problems resulting from shapes drawn in flash with an outline. I ran into this recently again, so I thought I’d post for any concerned parties out there. Regardless of whether or [...]

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Liven up Livedocs: Search from Quicksilver

April 1, 2009 – 1:10 pm

Several months ago I jumped back into AS3 development for flash and I once again, therefore, jumped back into using the actionscript livedocs. LiveDocs are great, but I’ve always found navigating to them to be a big chore, even from a bookmark in a browser. In addition, the search functionality for LiveDocs to often be [...]

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