Actionscript 3 Designer Toolkit

Displaying multiple pages: the SelectedPage class

The SelectedPage class displays a series of jpeg's and/or swf's one at a time. A series of buttons - one for each page - control the tweened transistion from one page to the next. The class relies on two arrays for data. As in the ...

Drawing lines of alternating dots and dashes: the DashDotLine class

A visitor asked whether the DashedLine class could be modified to create lines composed of alternating dots and dashes; so I went ahead and modified the class. The new DashDotLine class constructor includes parameters for total length of the line, dash and dot widths, spacing between the dashes and dots and ...

Removing class instances

A reader recently inquired if it was necessary to remove previously created class instances which were no longer being used. The simple answer is yes because it frees up memory - but there may be other reasons as well. // import custom classes import com.dtk.ImageLoader; import com.dtk.HTMLTitle; import com.dtk.SelectedImageEvent; // load first image & title dispatchEvent( new ...

Displaying slides: the SlideShow class

The SlideShow class is a simple means for displaying jpeg images one at a time. The class has built in next and previous buttons and shows the slide number displayed and total number of slides. The Flash file below implements the slideshow above. After importing ...

Using patterned backgrounds and masks: the Perf class

The Perf class draws a regular grid of either squares or circles that can then be applied as either a background or as a mask. The parameters of the class constructor determine whether the pattern is composed of squares or circles, the spacing and size of the pattern and its color ...

Drawing a checkerboard background: the Checkerboard class

This post introduces the Checkerboard drawing class. It is a simple and easy to use class that relies on Flash's BitmapData class to draw the patterns. The code below implements the image above. Notice that where the text instances are instanciated determines their z-order and, ...

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Since the Actionscript 3 Designer Toolkit came online - over eight months ago - visitors to this website have downloaded the posted code snippets and custom classes several thousand times. If you are a designer/developer who has used one or more of the AS3DTK custom classes in a website you built, ...

Applying the DropDownMenus class

In this post, the DropDownMenus class is used to form a group of horizontally arranged dropdown menus. Several changes have been made to the class to enable multiple instances to work more efficently together (changes detailed below). The first change is a new parameter ...

Using drop down menus: the DropDownMenus class

In this post, the DropDownMenus class is introduced. The class may be used singularly - as shown - or as a group with a series of drop down menus placed side-by-side horizontally. The sample code below shows three arrays passed to the class constructor ...

Sorting and combining arrays: sortOn( ) and concat( )

In this post, the sorting of indexed arrays using the sortOn method is discussed. Sorting options Array.CASEINSENSITIVE, DESCENDING and NUMERIC, are also defined. Finally, we'll use concat to combine two arrays into a new array. In the first example below, the array fruits is simply sorted by the field 'name' and the results ...