Recently in Flash Category

I’ve been messing around with flash for a couple of months now.

Gotta say that I love some of the nifty little features of the FlashDevelop editor. When you’re typing in the names of variables in related classes it auto-completes them for you.

I’ve still to work out how to get it to compile the AS3 directly, but I’m getting there.

Update: I had trouble finding a way of indenting or outdenting a selection of text in the documentation. However highlighting your selection and hitting Tab or Shift Tab does the trick.  Just as I’d started to get used to Ctrl [ and Ctrl ]. Humph.

If you use Subversion to keep your software under version control, you probably use svn:keywords attributes.

Here is a quick and dirty way to get the Subversion revision number into the build number of your classes. I recommend using this as a build number and set the major version number by hand.

public static const VERSION:String = "Software 0.1 Build "

   + String("$Rev: 335 $").slice(6,-2);

To save screen real estate I then put this string into the right click context menu.

I’ve been learning ActionScript 3 for compiling games in flash and thought I’d post a few resources.

Really nice presentation about the internals of the Actionscript Virtual Machine.

This article on an implementation of Recursive Dimensional Clustering I found really interesting.