Not magic, just a different kind of science.
Yes, believe it or not, I have found a semi-valid use for using the Proxy class. Never heard of it? I’m not surprised– it doesn’t actually exist. The Proxy class is one of those Flash features that I’ve known about for some time, but I’ve never been able to find an actual use for (similar […]
MoreI am as Prometheus to you mere mavening mortals (except for how he was chained to a rock for all eternity while birds repeatedly ate his internal organs)! I have stolen fire from mighty Zeus and I now share it with you. Wear your flame retardant pants, ye knave–for we enter the wild world of […]
MoreGet it? I used “re:” in the title because it’s the Internet, and that kind of crap flies. I also used “flex” in order to form a poor connection to Flash. If you don’t like it you aren’t really a programmer–just get outta here. Anyway, on to the fleshly bits of my post. I was […]
MoreFlex conditional compilation is kinda like a crappy, finicky version of preprocessor directives in the C family. Compiler constants can be defined and used at compile time to include (or exclude) specific code–or they can be used at run time like regular old consts (except you can’t find them with any of the AS3 reflection […]
MoreFor being so narcissistic, AS3 is not great at reflection (yes, I really just made that joke). You can, however, make life a little easier with the little bit it does have. Awhile ago I was refactoring all our project’s cursor code. We were embedding a bunch of PNGs and going through and initializing them […]
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