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Entries from December 21st, 2009

Applying the TabbedButton and TabbedPage classes

December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps

The TabbedButton and the TabbedPage classes were designed to work together and share setup data common to both.

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Repackaging the RSS feed program: The RSSFeed Class

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

The RSSFeed Class presented in this post was derived directly from the code in the previous post.  Parameters passed to the class include the address of the feed and the range of displayed items.  The class returns an array of the requested rss data.

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Parsing and Displaying a RSS feed in Actionscript 3

December 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Tutorials

This post decribes the code required to download a RSS feed and display the reformatted XML data onscreen.  The code relies on the HTMLTextMultiline class to display the processed data.

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Adding the ButtonPressedEvent Class to the DTK_Button Class

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

In the last post, I introduced the DTK_Button class but left out a means for programmatically determining when the button is pressed. In this post, the ButtonPressedEvent class is used to determine when a button is clicked.

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Configuring Buttons with Rollover: DTK_Button Class

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes

The DTK_Button Class is based on the graphics class drawRoundRect method.  While developing this class, I discovered that by varying the dimensions and corner radius of the button four different visual configurations are obtained.

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Using the Diagonals class: A simple app

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · AS3 Custom Classes, Apps

This post describes the use of two previously introduced classes, the Diagonals and HTMLTextMultiline classes, to create a small application – a bordered text field.

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