ActionScript Property Iteration

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I'm fairly new to ActionScript (3.0) and if I haven't iterated over the properties of an object in a while, I forget how it. It, of course, is not in the object APIs - which it totally where you'd expect it to be. Originally there was a "for each" loop, ...

ActionScript Variable Scoping and the Lack Thereof

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I've always disparaged JavaScript (in a bigoted way), and have only learned, and come to use quite often, ActionScript in the past six months. Both are now roughly based on ECMAScript. I've always preferred "real" languages to kludgey script languages. (What is a language? That'll have to wait ...

Reviving LiveDocs: Adobe on the Case

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

You should always be the squeeky wheel! I emailed a contact I had in the Adobe documents group (thanks, Matt!) and found out that Adobe was aware of their Dead Docs problem. But more importantly they provided a link to a downloadable API documents for the Flex/ActionScript 3.0 collection - I'd much ...

Editorial Content: Misused Patterns

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Note that it looks slightly similar to Java code but is less verbose because the decorator pattern is not (mis)used as it is in Java. -Bruce ...